Consultant

Consultant

Summary: Full-time position available for a person in the Philippines with a degree, skilled in software, data analysis and leading discussions with customers. Excellent skills required in Python and Power BI.

Required Skills: The successful candidate will have, in descending importance:

Excellent skills Python programming, and the Power BI business intelligence tool

Excellent skills in leading discussion and summarising meetings in business English

Good skills in Excel, for example to create Graphs and Pivot Tables

Good skills in PowerPoint creation and presentation, for example to animate slides

An interest in Cyber is preferred, but no formal qualification or work experience is needed.

Personal Qualities: The successful candidate will be very engaging, honest, reliable, flexible, enthusiastic, hard-working and calm under pressure. Our customers will really enjoy working with them.

Benefits:

Many opportunities to develop automations, to speed up processes of collecting, analysing and presenting important information, for example about new cyber security attacks

Many opportunities to meet senior customer executives online, typically Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Operational Resilience, Procurement Directors and CISOs. Example here. Customers include Janus Henderson, Penguin Random House and Virgin Money.

Many opportunities to analyse new cyber developments, by summarising surveys and insights, for example here.

Salary of $5.00 per hour, for 30 to 40 hours a week from 8am UK time to 4:30pm UK time (with 30-minute break)

The main tasks of the role are to:

Develop software automations (30%): requires expert skills in using Python, to develop software code to integrate and automate data systems. The successful candidate will demonstrate how they have used Python to create an automation.

Develop Business Intelligence reports (25%): requires expert skills in Power BI for analysing & presenting data, as well as very good skills with the latest version of other software including Perplexity, ChatGPT, Excel & PowerPoint. The successful candidate will demonstrate how they have used PowerBI to analyse data.

Lead customer meetings (20%): requires excellent interpersonal skills, and friendly, calm, confident personality. The successful candidate will be a relaxed, likeable presenter.

Schedule & then follow-up on customer meetings (15%): requires personal organisation and tenacity, to ensure that actions are well documented and completed promptly.

Continuous Learning (10%): requires strong desire to learn about business impact of cyber.

Selection Process:

25 Aug: Advert closes at 9PM Manila Time.

27 Aug (Wednesday): Interviews: each short-listed candidate will participate in one 2-hour group interview, from 5:00 PM to 7:00PM Manila time, over Webex. Candidates will be given tasks to show skills in creating Excel graphs & pivot tables, as well as making PowerPoint slides.

Deliver a 2-3 minute PPT presentation, on Cyber Insights the most interesting two reports at https://www.linkedin.com/company/cyber-rescue-alliance/

Demonstrate good listening & writing skills and friendly, calm, confident personality by joining a 20 minute discussion with other candidates, while making notes in the same format as this job description (eg headings, bullet points, etc).

Use Excel to quickly graph some data into bubble diagrams and histograms.

Discuss the role, ask questions and make suggestions, meet future colleagues.

1 Sept (Monday): Successful candidate informed, and invited to a short call to arrange logistics for successful start.

8 Sept (Monday): Successful candidate starts work as Cyber Resilience Consultant.