About Ashurst Risk Advisory

Ashurst Risk Advisory was created to respond to client demand for risk expertise that complement the firm's core legal services.

With dedicated teams of legal and risk professionals working side by side, it brings together the technical expertise and practical experience in implementation to operationalise laws and regulations for clients.

After successfully establishing the division in Australia in 2020, our now 100 strong team have developed a market leading reputation and in October 2022 expanded into the UK. To find out more please visit www.ashurst.com

What we can offer you

We have established the UK's first legal-led consultancy that offers a truly differentiated client and employee experience in the market. We combine the legal expertise and backing of a leading, global law firm with highly experienced, specialist consultants to provide unique, integrated, and holistic solutions to our clients so they can navigate the complexities of conducting businesses globally.

We are a team devoted to collaboration, diversity, transparency, and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around teamwork and a structure that offers everyone a voice and the encouragement to help us build the practice. Our ambition is to hire a highly diverse team combining various personalities, cultures, and professional backgrounds, and offer them the opportunity to directly deal with clients, take responsibility for business development, drive their careers, and help us in defining our strategy, culture, and processes.

About the role

•  This is a Director role, working alongside our Cyber Partner to create a cyber business, focused on Board level Cyber Readiness and Response in the UK that focuses on bringing the best of regulatory and legal advice with cyber risk consultancy experience to our clients
•  Risk and Control: Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with our regulatory requirements and internal policies

About you

•  Self-starter: we are building a business, so someone who is energised by the idea of driving a business forward and taking initiative
•  Sales origination: someone with sales experience who enjoys relationship management and creating leads in a focussed fashion, seeing them through to conversion
•  Cyber readiness and response expertise; someone who has either hands on experience of improving cyber readiness/resilience and responding to events/breaches in a corporate or advising clients on the same
•  Experience in Cyber M&A deal lifecycle and/or cyber security supply chain management is very welcome
•  Industry experience/expertise; someone who understands the drivers in our key industries, including financial services, infrastructure, government
•  Strong network: someone with a broad and deep network amongst cyber/C-suite peers, who carries a level of respect for their expertise and delivery.
•  Commercial acumen: someone who has experience of contracting, pricing, market and competition analysis and understands how to build a lean high growth business that is scalable and efficient, without compromising on quality or risk
•  Collaboration: someone who truly believes and lives the ethos that working together creates the best outcomes

Background checks

In order to comply with regulatory and client requirements, Ashurst will undertake appropriate vetting of staff. When applicants accept a job offer, Ashurst, alongside a specialist provider, will undertake professional verification and background checks. These checks are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.