GRC Lead

About the job you’re considering

The Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Vulnerability Assessment Analyst supports the account's cyber security governance, risk management, compliance, assurance, and vulnerability management activities within a complex and highly regulated environment.
This role contributes to ensuring that security controls, processes, and governance frameworks are effective, auditable, and aligned to industry standards including ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, GDPR, NIST, and contractual security obligations.

The Analyst provides security oversight, assurance, and risk-based guidance across projects, operational services, and technology changes while supporting secure-by-design principles through governance and design review activities.
Working closely with technical and business stakeholders, the successful candidate will help identify, assess, manage, and report security risks appropriately, while supporting continual improvement initiatives that enhance the overall security posture of the account.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

• Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of the Cyber Security Governance Framework, ensuring alignment with organisational, client, and regulatory requirements. 
• Assist with security risk management activities, including risk identification, assessment, treatment, acceptance tracking, and ongoing monitoring. 
• Maintain the Security Risk Register, ensuring risks, actions, owners, and mitigations are accurately recorded, tracked, and reported. 
• Support the development, review, and maintenance of security policies, standards, and procedures aligned to ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, GDPR, and contractual obligations. 
• Assist with internal and external audit activities, including evidence collection, tracking remediation actions, and supporting responses to audit findings. 
• Conduct security assurance reviews and control assessments to identify compliance gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement. 
• Support vulnerability management governance activities by monitoring vulnerability remediation progress, tracking risk treatment plans, and producing reports. 
• Produce security reporting and metrics covering risk, compliance, audit, incident, and vulnerability management activities for internal and client stakeholders.
• Review security designs and technology changes against security policies, standards, and secure-by-design principles, escalating concerns where appropriate.
• Support security awareness, training, and continual improvement initiatives that help strengthen security maturity and compliance across the account.

Your skills and experience

• Experience working within a Cyber Security Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) environment.
• Good understanding of security risk management frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience supporting security governance, compliance, assurance, audit, or risk management activities. 
• Familiarity with security standards, certifications, and compliance frameworks, including: 
  o    ISO 27001
  o    Cyber Essentials Plus
  o    GDPR
  o    NIST Cyber Security Framework
  o    ITIL
• Experience maintaining security risk registers, control frameworks, policies, standards, and compliance documentation.
• Understanding of vulnerability management processes, remediation tracking, and security assurance activities.
• Ability to analyse technical findings and communicate associated business risks.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders, auditors, clients, and technical teams.
• Strong analytical, reporting, documentation, and organisational skills.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Ability to prioritise workload, manage multiple tasks, and work effectively within a regulated environment.
• Relevant cyber security qualifications or willingness to work towards industry-recognised certifications (e.g. ISO 27001, Security+, ISC2 CC).

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.  

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a  Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

 
 
Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance and pre-employment checks

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
 
 
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
 

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
 
 
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:  identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Flexibility to work your way
You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance.  Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.  All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
 
 
 
Your wellbeing
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
 
 
 
 
Shape your path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
 
 
 
 
Shared energy
You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why should you consider Capgemini?

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com