Job Specifications
Title: Senior Business Performance and Metrics Consultant
Location: Atlanta, GA/Charlotte, NC/Raleigh, NC - 3 Days (Onsite)
Duration: 9 Months – (Contract to hire)
Description:
Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work)
New team; Metric Governance and Engagement.
Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)
Preferred.
Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing)
Act as a liaison between cybersecurity metric owners, data engineers, and governance teams to ensure accurate and timely metric development.
Facilitate metric working sessions to define metric name, definition, calculation, system of record, and critical data elements (CDEs).
Support the documentation and validation of metric logic and data lineage.
Coordinate and lead standing meetings to provide updates, manage timelines, and escalate blockers or data challenges.
Review and validate data quality and completeness of metric inputs in coordination with data engineers.
Support the development of root cause commentary and trend analysis for metrics that breach established thresholds.
Partner with control and process owners to align metrics with applicable frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, CIS, FFIEC).
Prepare clear, concise executive-level summaries and presentations on metric performance and risk trends.
Maintain oversight of multiple metrics in different stages of the build lifecycle, ensuring governance and consistency.
Contribute to continuous improvement of the metrics program, including standardization, automation, and data quality enhancements.
Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)
Bachelor’s degree or five years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
In-depth knowledge of principles, practices, theories, and/or methodologies associated with the professional discipline (e.g., information technology, project management, finance, risk management, etc.).
Understands foundational concepts of other related professional disciplines. Experience managing small projects
Ability to interpret and explain complex information to a range of audiences and build consensus among different stakeholders.
Ability to provide direction and mentor less experienced teammates.
Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience drafting executive summaries.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools (e.g., Teams, SharePoint).
5–7 years of experience in cybersecurity, risk management, technology project coordination, or data analytics.
Familiarity with cybersecurity domains (e.g., vulnerability management, DLP, IAM, cloud security, incident management).
Working knowledge of risk and performance metric design, including KRIs, KPIs, and operational indicators.
Experience gathering and documenting business requirements and translating them into actionable data or metric logic.
Basic understanding of SQL or ability to read data dictionaries and data mappings.
Exposure to cyber control frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or CIS.
Exposure to Agile or iterative project delivery methods.
EEO
“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”
About the Company
Founded in 1999, Mindlance is one of the largest diversity-owned staffing firms in the US and has been on SIA's list of Fastest Growing US Staffing Firms for 10 years. Mindlance has also been recognized as one of the consistently best performing partners to industry-leading MSP programs including Allegis, Kelly, TAPFIN, PROUnlimited, Pontoon, GRI, WorkforceLogiq and Agile-1. What started with contingent staffing has developed to a comprehensive portfolio of workforce solutions. Along with industry specific, talent-centric st...
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