Director Cybersecurity Mergers & Acquisitions
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Director, Cybersecurity Mergers & Acquisitions
Do you thrive at the intersection of cybersecurity and global business strategy?
At Thomson Reuters, we power the professionals who power the world — and protecting that mission starts with a strong focus on security. As a global leader in information services, we are looking for a Director of Cybersecurity Mergers & Acquisitions to join our centralized Cybersecurity team.
This role is based in Richmond, VA.
As a key member of the Cybersecurity organization, you will lead the security strategy for Thomson Reuters' mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, ensuring that every transaction is evaluated, integrated, and secured. Your work will directly protect the integrity of the products and platforms that millions of professionals around the world rely on every day.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Director, Cybersecurity Mergers & Acquisitions, you will:
Lead end-to-end cybersecurity due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships.
Formulate comprehensive security risk assessments that identify threats, vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and potential liabilities within target organizations.
Define and drive cybersecurity integration roadmaps that align with business timelines and risk tolerance.
Develop cost models and estimates for integration activities and ongoing security operations post-close.
Serve as the primary cybersecurity voice in M&A deal processes, communicating risk findings and recommendations to executive leadership, boards, and deal sponsors.
Build and continuously improve a repeatable, scalable cybersecurity M&A framework, including playbooks, templates, and assessment methodologies.
Manage multiple concurrent transactions with competing priorities, maintaining rigor and quality across all workstreams.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Director, Cybersecurity Mergers & Acquisitions if your background includes:
8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or senior advisory role.
Demonstrated experience supporting M&A transactions in a cybersecurity capacity, including due diligence, risk assessment, and post-close integration.
Broad knowledge across security disciplines, including network security, identity and access management, cloud security, application security, data protection, and governance, risk & compliance.
Experience defining cost estimates for security integration programs and ongoing security operations.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and present complex topics with clarity.
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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