The Attack Readiness Insights, Senior Analyst transforms security, risk, and operational data into actionable reports, dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations that help stakeholders understand attack readiness, security posture, and remediation priorities. A successful candidate supports the delivery of trusted, intuitive, and data-driven insights for executive, risk, security, application-owner, and developer audiences.
Core Responsibilities
Reporting & Business Partnership
- Partner with cybersecurity, technology, risk, and business stakeholders to understand reporting needs, business objectives, and key decisions requiring data-driven insights.
- Translate stakeholder requirements into analytical approaches, reporting solutions, dashboard enhancements, and actionable recommendations.
- Support reporting projects from requirements gathering through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
- Present reporting results, trends, risks, and opportunities through dashboards, visualizations, written summaries, and presentations tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
Dashboard Development & Visualization
- Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards, scorecards, reports, and visualizations using approved enterprise reporting platforms.
- Apply visualization, usability, accessibility, and reporting best practices to improve stakeholder understanding and support decision-making.
- Create prototypes, mockups, and dashboard concepts that validate reporting requirements and user needs.
- Support the development and adoption of standardized reporting components, visualization patterns, and dashboard design practices.
Data Analysis & Quality Management
- Acquire, compile, integrate, and analyze structured and unstructured data from approved enterprise sources.
- Verify data quality, accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reasonableness and investigate discrepancies with appropriate partners.
- Perform trend analysis, exploratory analysis, and descriptive analytics to identify meaningful insights, risks, and opportunities.
- Support testing, validation, reconciliation, and quality-review activities to ensure reporting outputs accurately represent approved metrics and business definitions.
Reporting Operations & Process Management
- Develop, maintain, and execute recurring reporting processes, dashboard refresh activities, and operational reporting schedules.
- Produce high-quality ad hoc reports and analyses in response to emerging stakeholder needs and business questions.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through reporting automation, process optimization, standardization, and reusable reporting assets.
- Monitor dashboard and reporting performance, investigate issues, and implement enhancements that improve reporting quality, reliability, and usability.
- Develop and maintain reporting documentation, metric definitions, user guides, and operational procedures.
Team Development & Knowledge Sharing
- Share reporting, visualization, and analytical best practices with peers and junior analysts.
- Support onboarding, training, and coaching efforts related to reporting tools, dashboard usage, data literacy, and visualization techniques.
- Continuously develop expertise in cybersecurity reporting, attack readiness metrics, business intelligence, data visualization, and emerging reporting technologies.
- Participate in reporting community forums, knowledge-sharing activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
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Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in reporting, analytics, data visualization, business intelligence, or a related field.
- Experience developing dashboards, reports, and visualizations using enterprise reporting and analytics tools.
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data sources.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to gather requirements and translate business questions into reporting and analytical solutions.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity, vulnerability management, security operations, risk management, or technical control reporting.
- Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent enterprise visualization platforms.
- Familiarity with SQL, cloud-based data platforms, APIs, semantic models, and data governance practices.
- Experience developing executive-facing dashboards and reporting solutions.
- Experience supporting reporting automation, dashboard modernization, or process improvement initiatives.
- Exposure to security metrics, attack surface management, vulnerability management, or security posture reporting.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.