Accenture Looking for Finance Analyst ME / Strategic Industry Analysis at Dubai Full Time

Title: Finance Analyst ME / Strategic Industry Analysis

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About Accenture  

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 738,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Technology

We provide innovative services that span Cloud; systems integration and application management; security; intelligent platform services; infrastructure services; software engineering services; data and artificial intelligence. We also deliver it at speed and at scale through our Advanced Technology Centers.

We continuously innovate our services, capabilities and platforms through early adoption of new technologies such as blockchain, robotics, 5G, quantum computing and edge computing.

About Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI)

ACTI is a global team that spans 13 countries, 4 continents and, speaks more than 30 languages. We are passionate about delivering cyber threat intelligence analysis, and providing industry-leading analytic insights, strategic context, and critical services our clients need to achieve their business-line and strategic-growth initiatives. We know success is only possible by developing and supporting our most-critical resources: our talented analysts, developers, and supporting team members. We value creativity and entrepreneurship in our team; where possible, we back staff initiatives with opportunities and investments. We enjoy the hunt. We strive to automate and innovate while working with powerful resources and differentiated data. Above all else, we value an egoless approach to guiding our clients as they navigate their businesses through all aspects of the cyber domain.

Who You Are

You are passionate about cybersecurity and intelligence analysis. You stay abreast of the latest threats, recognize the value of intelligence, and believe it should drive operations. You are a devoted team member who is always willing to lend a hand, mentor a colleague, or increase our global team’s awareness by sharing your knowledge and approaches with others. You are productive, easy to work with, and understand that adherence to a good process is key to excellence.

Role Description

The duties for this role will be associated with the Strategic and Industry Analysis (SIA) team. As a Strategic Intelligence Analyst with ACTI, you will report to the Lead of the SIA Team of Accenture Security’s Global Threat Team (GTT). In SIA, you will research, analyze, and report on cyber defense, technology, cyber threat actors and groups, and related political and economic conditions. This position involves in-depth research, collaboration with industry specialists and peer analysts, development and maintenance of short- and long-term research projects, production of finished intelligence for tactical and executive audiences, and the presentation of findings through briefings and external engagements. The analyst in this position would handle cyber threats specific to financial services such as banking, capital markets, and insurance and would need to have substantive experience in at least one of these industries. Foreign language ability would be a plus but is not required.

Key Responsibilities

• Discover, identify, and report regularly on significant cyber threats and risks to businesses, governments, and other organizations presented by cyber threat actors and groups originating in global regions.

• Provide input regarding the ACTI mission and participate in the development and management of intelligence collection requirements. 

• Develop and produce strategic intelligence reports focused on industry-level analysis of developing cybersecurity threats, events, conditions, and impacts.

• Participate in the drafting and dissemination of finished tactical and operational threat intelligence products (reports, briefings, etc.).

• Research and analyze cyber-threat actors, groups, and events to report on threatening tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), behaviors, motivations, sponsorship, and influencing factors.

• Discover, identify, and report regularly on significant threats and risks that emerging technologies present to businesses, governments, and other organizations.

• Maintain, develop, and continuously evaluate cyber threat intelligence sources to increase effectiveness and timeliness of creating actionable threat assessments.

• Respond to client requests for information (RFIs) and participate in the drafting and production of company threat assessments.

• Develop, produce, and deliver high-level briefings and briefing materials on industry-focused cybersecurity issues and threats.

• Engage and develop relationships with peers among Accenture Security’s clientele and their industries to determine client and industry intelligence requirements, reporting use cases, and feedback on ACTI products.

• Assist with Accenture Security engagements that involve on-site and remote work with clients, using subject-matter expertise to help develop, uplift, and mature ACTI operations.

• Support Accenture Security business development and marketing initiatives primarily by representing ACTI and Accenture Security as a whole at security conferences and industry gatherings.

• Author intelligence works, blogs, etc., distilling complex geopolitical trends into actionable intelligence that clients can synthesize into their decision support processes.

• Travel, occasionally, as ACTI is a client-focused organization, and this position may require doing so to address client needs, enhance deliverables, or otherwise support projects.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience, preferably in Political Science, International Relations, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Information Security, or Computer Science.

• Minimum 2 years of experience in relevant industry, cyber threat, or intelligence analysis, or a related area.

Required Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.

• Ability to conduct open-source intelligence collection and analysis.

• Ability to produce intelligence products at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.

• Familiarity with open-source intelligence (OSINT), social media intelligence (SOCMINT), human intelligence (HUMINT), and technical intelligence (TECHINT) gathering skills.

• Good understanding of the intelligence lifecycle and associated analytic methodologies (Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, ATT&CK, etc.).

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate complex concepts at a high level while retaining meaning and highlighting features in a way that maximizes audience engagement.

• Strong problem solving and critical thinking capabilities.

• Ability to work with a high degree of independence.

• Substantive experience in a specific industry such as banking, capital markets, and insurance.

Desired Skills

• Strong analytic skills.

• Minimum of basic level understanding of malware analysis

• Familiarity with industry-specific cyber defense practices.

• Flexibility to complete short-deadline assignments.

• Basic knowledge of threat intelligence and cyber defense concepts.

• Basic familiarity with cyber espionage groups and cybercrime threat campaigns, including but not limited to their associated TTPs and malicious tools.

• Basic knowledge of open-source tools, such as Shodan, Maltego, PassiveTotal, and Virus Total.

• Foreign language skills (intermediate to fluent) — especially Chinese, Farsi, and Korean

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues.

• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools.

• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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