Global risk management and investigations consulting
BPI Project Specialist - Cyber & Data Resilience
Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
Project & Program ManagementProject Management
About the job
Requirements
Experience in project management, program coordination, business process improvement, operations, transformation, or a related discipline.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, deadlines, dependencies, and stakeholder groups.
Working knowledge of project management practices and tools, including planning, status reporting, RAID management, governance, and change control.
Experience supporting process improvement, operating-model, automation, or technology-enabled transformation initiatives.
Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and Project or comparable planning tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear leadership-ready materials.
Bachelor's degree in business, operations, technology, engineering, project management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and implementation schedules for assigned business process improvement initiatives.
Coordinate day-to-day execution across business, operations, technology, data, and change-management workstreams.
Track actions, decisions, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring owners and due dates are clear.
Identify delivery gaps or schedule risks and escalate them with practical options and recommendations.
Drive follow-through on commitments and maintain execution discipline across project teams.
Support initiatives from discovery and design through implementation, stabilization, handoff, and closure.
Prepare project status reports, dashboards, leadership updates, and decision materials.
Maintain project artifacts, including plans, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, governance calendars, and benefits trackers.
Coordinate governance meetings, prepare agendas and materials, document decisions, and monitor resulting actions.
Ensure project information is current, consistent, and transparent across workstreams and stakeholder groups.
Support portfolio-level reporting by consolidating progress, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and upcoming milestones.
Partner with the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Leader and process owners on current-state assessments, process mapping, root cause analysis, and future-state design.
Coordinate workshops, stakeholder interviews, working sessions, pilots, and implementation-readiness activities.
Translate improvement recommendations into sequenced workplans, accountable owners, and measurable deliverables.
Support development and maintenance of standard operating procedures, process documentation, controls, training materials, and handoff plans.
Monitor adoption and sustainability after implementation and identify areas requiring further intervention.
Coordinate the definition and tracking of project key performance indicators, baselines, targets, and expected benefits.
Work with initiative owners and finance or data partners to maintain evidence for productivity, quality, cycle-time, capacity, cost, and other operational improvements.
Monitor performance against agreed measures and flag variance, data-quality concerns, or benefit-realization risks.
Ensure control plans, ownership, and ongoing reporting requirements are documented before project closure.
Build working relationships across CDR service lines, Cyber operations, information technology, platform teams, and global delivery locations.
Coordinate stakeholder communications, change-impact activities, training, and implementation readiness.
Adapt communications for audiences, providing executive summaries and detailed working-level updates.
Facilitate alignment across teams with different priorities and help resolve open decisions promptly.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with Power BI, Power Platform, workflow tools, or process-mapping applications.
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt certification; willingness to build Lean Six Sigma capability is expected.
Experience working with global, cross-functional, or GCC delivery teams.
The Cyber BPI Project Specialist is a full-time role responsible for coordinating and driving the day-to-day execution of business process improvement initiatives across CDR. The position will bring structure, visibility, and delivery discipline to cross-functional projects focused on process simplification, standardization, automation, data quality, operating-model improvement, and measurable business outcomes.
Based in Bangalore, this role will report to the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Leader and/or the overall Cyber BPI Program Manager, subject to the final program structure. The Project Specialist will work closely with workstream leaders, process owners, Cyber operations teams, technology and platform partners, and global delivery stakeholders to maintain plans, manage dependencies, resolve issues, and move initiatives from analysis through implementation and sustainment.
Key Responsibilities
Project Planning and Delivery
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and implementation schedules for assigned BPI initiatives.
Coordinate day-to-day execution across business, operations, technology, data, and change-management workstreams.
Track actions, decisions, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring owners and due dates are clear.
Proactively identify delivery gaps or schedule risks and escalate them with practical options and recommendations.
Drive follow-through on commitments and maintain strong execution discipline across project teams.
Support initiatives from discovery and design through implementation, stabilization, handoff, and closure.
BPI Program Governance and Reporting
Prepare clear, accurate project status reports, dashboards, leadership updates, and decision materials.
Maintain core project artifacts, including plans, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, governance calendars, and benefits trackers.
Coordinate governance meetings, prepare agendas and materials, document decisions, and monitor resulting actions.
Ensure project information is current, consistent, and transparent across workstreams and stakeholder groups.
Support portfolio-level reporting by consolidating progress, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and upcoming milestones.
Process Improvement Support
Partner with the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Leader and process owners to support current-state assessments, process mapping, root cause analysis, and future-state design.
Coordinate workshops, stakeholder interviews, working sessions, pilots, and implementation-readiness activities.
Help translate improvement recommendations into sequenced workplans, accountable owners, and measurable deliverables.
Support development and maintenance of SOPs, process documentation, controls, training materials, and handoff plans.
Monitor adoption and sustainability actions after implementation and surface areas requiring additional intervention.
Benefits, Metrics, and Controls
Coordinate the definition and tracking of project KPIs, baselines, targets, and expected benefits.
Work with initiative owners and finance or data partners to maintain supporting evidence for productivity, quality, cycle-time, capacity, cost, and other operational improvements.
Monitor performance against agreed measures and flag variance, data-quality concerns, or benefit-realization risks.
Ensure control plans, ownership, and ongoing reporting requirements are documented before project closure.
Stakeholder and Change Coordination
Build productive working relationships across CDR service lines, Cyber operations, IT, platform teams, and global delivery locations.
Coordinate stakeholder communications, change-impact activities, training, and implementation readiness.
Adapt communications to the audience, providing concise executive summaries as well as detailed working-level updates.
Facilitate alignment across teams with different priorities and help drive timely resolution of open decisions.
Promote accountability, collaboration, and a continuous-improvement mindset throughout project delivery.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Experience in project management, program coordination, business process improvement, operations, transformation, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, deadlines, dependencies, and stakeholder groups.
Working knowledge of project management practices and tools, including planning, status reporting, RAID management, governance, and change control.
Experience supporting process improvement, operating-model, automation, or technology-enabled transformation initiatives.
Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and Project or comparable planning tools.
Experience with Power BI, Power Platform, workflow tools, or process-mapping applications is advantageous.
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt certification is advantageous; willingness to build Lean Six Sigma capability is expected.
Experience working with global, cross-functional, or GCC delivery teams is advantageous.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear leadership-ready materials.
Bachelor's degree in business, operations, technology, engineering, project management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Success Profile
Highly organized executor who creates clarity, structure, and momentum in complex initiatives.
Proactive problem solver who anticipates risks and follows issues through to resolution.
Detail-oriented without losing sight of broader business objectives and outcomes.
Clear communicator who can work effectively with senior leaders and delivery teams.
Collaborative team member who is comfortable working across cultures, functions, and time zones.
Curious and improvement-oriented, with a willingness to challenge inefficient ways of working constructively.
Measures of Success
Projects and workstreams delivered against agreed milestones, scope, quality expectations, and implementation plans.
Accurate and timely reporting of project status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and resource requirements.
Strong follow-through on actions and effective coordination across stakeholder groups.
Clear project documentation, governance discipline, and readiness for implementation and handoff.
Transparent tracking of KPIs and benefits, with risks to realization identified and escalated promptly.
Positive partnership with BPI leadership, process owners, Cyber teams, technology partners, and global delivery stakeholders.
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Kroll introduces APEX to drive measurable business outcomes from AI investment.
Aug 31, 2026, 10:00 ET
NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Fal.Con 2026 - Kroll, the leading independent provider of global financial and risk advisory solutions, today announced the launch of Kroll AI Automation Prioritization EXecution (APEX). A new capability developed on the CrowdStrike Falcon(R) platform, Kroll APEX enables organizations to make more informed cyber investment decisions by quantifying the expected operational effort, cost and business value of AI, automation and hybrid approaches.
AI represents a significant and growing investment for organizations, yet many lack clear, measurable outcomes for CFOs to evaluate return on investment. "Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase year-over-year," according to Gartner, Inc.[1]
Kroll APEX, built with Charlotte AI AgentWorks and Falcon Foundry, provides a data-driven decision framework that identifies, prioritizes and evaluates cyber use cases, enabling organizations to determine where AI, automation or a combination of both is most appropriate, before engineering work begins.
Kroll works with clients to assess their cyber environment, organizational priorities and operational data through a structured discovery process. Using Kroll's experience across thousands of cyber engagements, alongside client-specific financial and operational inputs, APEX identifies and prioritizes opportunities, estimates implementation effort and expected returns and presents these insights through an intuitive dashboard embedded within the Falcon platform. Clients can use the capability as a strategic assessment or as part of an ongoing advisory engagement, continually refining cyber priorities as their organizations evolve.
The result is greater confidence in cyber investment decisions and stronger alignment between security strategy and business objectives. By providing finance and security leaders with a shared view of investment priorities and expected outcomes, APEX helps organizations optimize technology spending, accelerate decision-making and build more resilient cyber programs.
"Kroll APEX changes the conversation from 'Should we invest in AI?' to 'Where will AI, automation or human expertise deliver the greatest value?'," said Dave Burg, Global Group Head of Cyber and Data Resilience at Kroll. "With cyber risks mounting and spending accelerating, CFOs and CISOs are under growing pressure to bring financial discipline and operational insight together to make more informed cyber investment decisions. Boards are calling for greater clarity around these decisions, and Kroll provides the insight to prioritize initiatives based on measurable business outcomes rather than guesswork."
Kroll APEX reflects the continued evolution of the strategic relationship between Kroll and CrowdStrike, expanding on Kroll's role as a founding member of CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI AgentWorks Ecosystem and Project QuiltWorks.
By combining CrowdStrike's AI-native cybersecurity platform with Kroll's advisory expertise, implementation experience and proprietary methodologies, the collaboration enables organizations to make evidence-based decisions that align security investment with broader business priorities.
"AI is redefining what's possible in cybersecurity, but value comes from applying it where it can have the greatest impact," said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. "Kroll is combining its deep advisory expertise with the power of Falcon to help customers turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes. APEX is a great example of how our partners are building on CrowdStrike to drive innovation and deliver more value for customers."
To discover how Kroll and CrowdStrike can help your organization maximize the value of its cyber investments, visit kroll.com/crowdstrike.
About Kroll
As the leading independent provider of financial and risk advisory solutions, Kroll leverages our unique insights, data and technology to help clients stay ahead of complex valuation demands. Kroll's team of more than 6,500 professionals worldwide continues the firm's nearly 100-year history of trusted expertise spanning risk, governance, transactions and valuation. Our advanced solutions and intelligence provide clients the foresight they need to create an enduring competitive advantage. At Kroll, our values define who we are and how we partner with clients and communities. Learn more at kroll.com.
[1] Gartner Press Release, "Gartner Forecasts Worldwide AI Spending to Grow 47 Percent in 2026," 19 May 2026. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-05-19-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-ai-spending-to-grow-47-percent-in-2026. GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates
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Kroll has launched APEX, a capability built on CrowdStrike's Falcon platform that helps organisations evaluate the return on investment from AI and automation in cybersecurity. The tool provides a data-driven framework to identify and prioritise cyber use cases, estimating implementation effort and expected returns before engineering work begins.
APEX addresses growing pressure on CFOs and CISOs to justify cyber spending. According to Gartner, worldwide AI spending is forecast to reach $2.59 trillion in 2026, up 47% year-over-year.
The capability uses Kroll's experience from thousands of cyber engagements alongside client-specific data to recommend where AI, automation, or human expertise will deliver the greatest value. Results are presented through a dashboard embedded within the Falcon platform.
Dave Burg, Kroll's Global Group Head of Cyber and Data Resilience, said APEX brings financial discipline and operational insight together to support more informed investment decisions based on measurable business outcomes.
Cybersecurity veterans launch new Melbourne consultancy MosaicalAI.
09 August 2026 Consultancy.com.au
Former Tesserent senior partner Mark Jones has launched a new AI consultancy in Melbourne alongside fellow cybersecurity expert Alexandre Medarov, which the pair have dubbed MosaicalAI.
The motivation behind the launch of MosaicalAI is to support organisations in forging ahead with AI while ensuring the appropriate back-stops are still in place, with its services grouped around leadership coaching, design, build, security, and governance.
Together the pair bring over five decades of combined industry experience to their new venture, with Jones most recently working as a director at Thales following its ~$175 million Tesserent acquisition and Medarov leading another AI start-up, dig8italX.
"Move too slow and lose the market; move too fast and risk the business," goes the company pitch, with Jones stating; "We started MosaicalAI to help Australian businesses move quickly with AI, but without losing visibility, accountability or control. The AI opportunity is huge, but it needs to be done with the right people, workflows, and governance placed around it."
Prior to his five years between Tesserent and Thales (which just sold off its local managed cloud services business to Interactive), Jones served as deputy CISO at Medibank, before which he was A/NZ cyber risk leader at Kroll and spent time in senior roles at a number of energy and financial services firms including Jemena and ANZ in a career dating back to Deloitte in 1998.
Medarov meanwhile started his career with a stint at Accenturein Germany, and has since 2006 spent time at Dell EMC, both the University of Auckland and Monash, and in a senior cybersecurity role at Allianz back in Munich, where he had led the locally-based AI security consultancy dig8ital and its off-shoot as CISO and managing director since 2017 but most recently out of London.
Now the pair have put their expertise and brains together to form MosaicalAI in Melbourne, which takes its name from the 'mosaic' of, brace yourselves, an AI operating layer "comprised of the tools, portals, reports, and decision surfaces a customer's team uses", including "agents, workflow logic, hand-offs, fallback paths, approvals, and routing and system actions," among other stuff.
"Our view is that AI needs to be built with the same discipline that cyber has learned the hard way as to visibility, governance, accountability and clear ownership," Jones says. "There's a lot of noise around AI right now, but for executives, leaders and teams, I think it comes down to two fears: people are not ready, and businesses do not have the right team to build bespoke AI capability."
That is where MosaicalAI comes in, the start-up says; "Our work is practical and hands on. We help clients engage their people, build AI into their business, and govern it from day one. We are already working with mid- and upper-middle market firms, and want to help them move at AI speed without creating the technical debt, governance mess, or loss of control that comes from rushing in blindly."
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