Information Security Compliance Specialist
London or Birmingham
Role Overview
Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.
Our people are our success, and we work as one team.
We are recruiting an Information Security Compliance Specialist to support the firm’s information security compliance obligations and certification requirements, including the day-to-day operation of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) and coordination of audit and assurance activity.
The team is spread across the UK. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to work on a broad range of compliance, audit and assurance initiatives, helping to shape a more data-driven, automated and AI-enabled approach to security compliance.
This role can be based out of either our London or Birmingham office. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, and we operate a 3 days in the office, 2 days from home working model, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
- Deep knowledge of information security frameworks, particularly ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials.
- Proven experience operating and maintaining an Information Security Management System (ISMS) in a live environment.
- Significant experience coordinating internal and external audits, including managing relationships with external auditors.
- Demonstrable experience delivering data-driven or digitised audit and compliance programmes.
- Strong capability in control monitoring, testing and audit readiness, including evidence collection and remediation tracking.
- Experience supporting or introducing automated, AI-assisted or tool-enabled compliance and assurance processes.
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.
We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Our strength lies in our differences.
We are a top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.
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