Director of Security

About the role

At Current, everything starts with people. We believe that when you invest in talent through opportunity, development, and support, you unlock growth for individuals, firms, and clients alike. That's why we've built a platform designed to give our people access to more: more learning, more collaboration, and more ways to grow their careers than any single firm could offer on its own. Founded in 2023, Current has rapidly become one of the fastest-growing accounting platforms in the country, partnering with more than 40 leading accounting firms across the United States. Today, our community includes over 2,000 professionals, 30+ offices nationwide, and a growing global workforce that supports clients around the world. Backed by Thrive Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Springdale Industries, Current is investing heavily in technology, artificial intelligence, and workforce innovation to help modernize the profession. Our leadership team has a proven track record of building and scaling successful businesses, with prior ventures generating more than $3 billion in combined enterprise value. We're building something bigger than a traditional accounting firm: a platform where talented people can grow faster, learn more, and do more meaningful work. Whether you join Current, one of our partner firms, or our global team, you'll be part of a community shaping the future of the profession. Own the enterprise information security, compliance & business continuity program across Crete (corporate) and all member firms. Build standardized, scalable security controls, governance, and operations across multiple independent control environments.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year security strategy and roadmap across Crete and member firms in a federated model, aligning priorities to business risk and acquisition cadence.
• Establish and maintain the security policy framework, standards, and minimum control baseline across all firms; design pragmatic exception handling and remediation plans for varying maturity levels.
• Build security operating rhythms and executive reporting: KPIs, risk posture, incident trends, audit/compliance status, and program progress for Crete leadership and firm leaders.
• Partner with IT, data, and engineering leadership to embed security into operations, architecture decisions, and change management across the portfolio.
• Lead security diligence for M&A: current-state control assessments, key risk identification, remediation estimates, and repeatable post-close stabilization playbooks (30/60/90-day plans).
• Drive security integration of new firms (people/process/technology) across separate environments - identity, endpoint/email, logging/monitoring, data protection - with scalable onboarding playbooks and control alignment patterns.
• Provide security architecture oversight for cloud and hybrid environments with emphasis on Azure, Intune, and Microsoft Defender; define secure patterns for privileged access, conditional access, PAM, RBAC, and separation of duties.
• Oversee day-to-day security operations: vulnerability management, patch/risk prioritization, endpoint and email security, tooling lifecycle, and event triage across Crete and member firms.
• Manage third-party MDR/SOC providers - scope, SLAs, escalation paths, detection coverage, playbooks, reporting - and drive continuous improvement of monitoring outcomes.
• Own the incident response program end-to-end: runbooks, tabletop exercises, ransomware preparedness, forensics coordination, and post-incident reviews with corrective actions.
• Implement consistent risk management across firms - periodic assessments, control testing, remediation tracking - and own third-party/vendor security risk management for corporate and shared vendors.
• Support member firms with client-driven security and compliance requirements (NIST CSF, CIS, SOC 2 Type II); ensure evidence collection is repeatable and accurate.
• Lead security awareness and training programs tailored to professional services workflows, with measurable adoption and behavioral outcomes.
• Lead, coach, and develop the cybersecurity team; serve as escalation point for security decisions, incidents, and complex risk tradeoffs.
• Build documentation, playbooks, and implementation guides that enable consistent security outcomes across firms; influence firm leaders and local teams to drive baseline control adoption.
• Required experience / profile
• 10+ years of progressive experience in information security or cybersecurity.
• 3+ years leading and developing security teams.
• Demonstrated M&A, private equity, or roll-up experience.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles with hands-on Azure and Microsoft security experience.
• Experience managing and governing compliance standards (NIST, CSF, CIS, and SOC2 Type II preferred)
• Experience managing business continuity programs and lifecycle
• Microsoft Azure/Intune experience
• Experience managing third-par

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