Telstra Purple is an ambitious and rapidly growing IT services firm which leads change, strips out cost and safeguards information.

Headquartered in London for the EMEA, we provide a range of services through our various domains. These domains namely; Strategy & Transformation, Data and Analytics, Cloud and Cyber Security and Networks. We deliver these services through our domains to some of the biggest global organisations in the public and private sector across the EMEA and the world. We have been at the forefront of infrastructure innovation for over 25 years, with an industry recognised methodology that guarantees outcomes, reduces risk and is at least 25% faster and 30% more cost effective than larger consultancies.

Our consultants are self-starters who can adapt to the different requirements of each client and are open to taking on new challenges. Powered by Telstra, we have the agility of a small business powered by a global organisation.

Telstra Purple Cyber Security

Telstra Purple’s Cyber Security domain consists of security architects, security consultants, security advisors, and operational security managers. Powered by Telstra, Telstra Purple’s security practise has the agility to service our customers’ requirements along with the purchasing power of a global organisation.

Joining the Telstra Purple family and our Cyber Security domain you will be given time and support to invest in your cyber security skills, but more importantly, the opportunity to work on varied assignments. Our customers range across a number of verticals including financial services, legal, government, transport, and charities to name a few.

Our customers come to us with real problems that sometimes require us to think about problems differently. We are proud to be a security consulting organisation that addresses security differently and allows security to be an enabler to support our customers’ cyber security transformational journeys.

The Role

As Technical Security Solutions Team Lead, your role will encompass three main areas, technical consulting responsibilities, management responsibilities and commercial responsibilities. You will oversee large and complex technical security engagements, manage a team of consultants, work with your fellow Security and Networks Leaders to define the strategy for the Security and Networks domain and the wider Telstra Purple Domain Leads to ensure an aligned cross-domain vision. This is a hands on role and will suit someone career driven that wants to help build a growing security practice, with a passion for technical delivery, people management and strategic planning.

You Will:

• Lead a team of Technical Security Consultants and Network Security Consultants, responsible for their utilisation, training and career development.
• Provide senior technical oversight across multiple engagements, acting as a senior point of contact for customer interaction and any escalations.
• Architect security solutions across multiple technologies and vendors, assisting customers in defining and achieving their security goals.
• Contribute to the short and long term strategies for the Security and Networks Domain, including the services being delivered, plans to achieve domain targets and recruitment requirements.
• Assist customers in their strategic security goals, ensuring the correct controls are in place and aligned to both current and future state requirements.         
• Consult in a variety of technologies for FTSE 100 companies and other Clients in the private and public sectors.
• Oversee pre-sales activities, providing technical security oversight to Company85’s sales team, costing the level of effort for new engagements, helping to identify new opportunities to generate new business and expanding our services in existing clients.
• Be supported with training both formal and on-the-job, to ensure you are always learning and keeping abreast of the latest technology innovations.
• Be part of a proactive, successful and fast growing team, offering a wealth of opportunities to improve yourself and your skills.

Essential Experience and Skills:

• At least 7 years’ experience within the cyber security consulting space.
• Experience designing and delivering security solutions from any of the following vendors:
  • Symantec
  • Trend Micro
  • Forcepoint
  • McAfee
  • Titus
• Security Architecture experience across the following security technologies:
  • Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware
  • Cloud Access Security Broker
  • Data Classification/Discovery
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Intrusion Prevention Systems
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Network Access Control
  • Privileged Account Management
  • Mobile Device Management
  • Next Generation Firewalls
• Experience recommending and implementing security controls aligned to mitigating business risk and impact.
• Experience in leading workshops to understand customer requirements
• Consulting background in taking customers through a cyber-security maturity journey
• Experience Managing a team of consultants, including mentoring, resourcing and development duties.
• Experience designing and building
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to accommodate UK/Europe wide travel
• Experience designing and implementing complex technology solutions
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Client facing experience
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
• An eagerness to learn and ambition to grow as the company does
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance

Desirable:

• Security Vendor certifications from Trend Micro, Symantec, Forcepoint
• Vendor agnostic certifications e.g. CISSP, CISM…
• Technical certifications e.g. CCIE, PNCSE…
• Good understanding of either ISO27001, NIST, Government security requirements such as Information Assurance Standards, Good Practise Guides and PSN

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit tel.st/allrolesflex

Purpose of this role:

This is a Financial Controlling role that ensures accurate reporting of revenue and costs to enhance customer profitability monitoring and control.  Effective collaboration with business and finance stakeholders are required to produce information that supports decision-making.

Key Accountabilities:

• Supporting the month end process ensuring accurate P&L results for the EMEA region
• Working with Sales, Service Delivery, Contract management, Billing, etc. to accurately report commercial performance to support decision making to optimise revenue and profitability
• Analysis of EMEA regional financial performance including commentary tailored to stakeholders and ability to support regular business reviews with customer account teams.
• Preparation of business review working files and presentation
• Understanding of significant terms and conditions of the contract and ensuring financial implications are appropriately tracked and reported.
• Maintenance of balance sheet reconciliations and review
• Ensuring the preparation of monthly journals to accurately reflect the financial performance of the account, including appropriate revenue and cost accruals adjustments.
• Working with product finance to ensure all revenue is accurately reflected within the correct products and streams and that we have collaboration on the profiling.
• Working with PO Buyers to ensure COGS is accurately reflected and support PO reviews and clean-ups.
• Preparation of audit schedules, responding to external audit queries or ad-hoc queries from regulators
• Other analysis and decision support required to understand, monitor and manage customer profitability

Qualifications/experiences

• CA/CPA/ACCA qualified
• 3+ years of relevant experience as a Financial Analyst or Commercial Analyst
• Telecoms experience desired
• Big 4 experience advantageous

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit tel.st/allrolesflex

Telstra Purple is the technology services arm of the Telstra group. Our UK team works alongside the Enterprise business to deliver consulting and managed services centred on digital transformation, security and data and analytics.

You’ll be working with the commercial and delivery teams to make sure we properly account for the performance of the large portfolio of projects. We’re looking for someone who can recognise the patterns in performance and their underlying drivers, think about the commercial implications for the business and be able to clearly explain the results to stakeholders in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia.

Your attention to detail will help you prepare the monthly management accounts, the audited financial statements and external compliance documents. But we don’t just need you to explain historic numbers clearly and concisely; you’ll be working closely with other teams to forecast our future performance and help create budget targets for the business.

As we drive growth in the UK we need to make sure our systems and processes scale effectively. You’ll help monitor our reporting processes and financial control framework so they support that growth and play a hands-on role in expense approval and payment and helping us integrate into Telstra International’s systems.

This role will suit someone with a solid grounding in financial accounting who can identify the key issues and trends in a set of numbers and have the confidence and experience needed to work with teams outside finance to support profitability and growth.

Key Accountabilities:

• Perform analysis and recognise patterns in data
• Provide advice based on technical knowledge and recommend improvements to reduce variance
• Produce business reports, coordinate relevant plans and identify key factors and trends.
• Perform tasks within prescribed timeframes.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the corporate memory/database for the business area

Skills essential to this role:

• Preparing and maintaining financial accounts to assess financial performance
• Acting as a trusted business partner, communicating a shared vision to engage stakeholders in the achievement of enterprise goals
• Applying business and commercial fundamentals and success criteria to inform planning and decision making
• Planning how commercial problems can be addressed with data and analytics solutions, extracting and communicating meaningful insights from analyses, and actioning solutions to each problem     
• Understanding and managing the financial position, in order to drive effective investment and financing decisions          
• Developing, monitoring and enhancing Telstra’s financial control and governance to achieve financial integrity            

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit tel.st/allrolesflex

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit tel.st/allrolesflex