Cyber Security Governance & Risk Consultant

A fanatstic opportunity for a Cyber Security Governance & Risk Consultant to work with an international investment bank. 

As the Governance & Risk Management Consultant, you will lead in the following areas:

• Support the Global Head of Gov & Risk, working in coordination with Global Head of Cyber Security
• Take key learnings from regulator findings, relating to policy, standards, and the risk framework, to improve thematically the approach to Risk Management, ensuring it meets industry best practice.
• Understand key business, risk and strategies within the Bank to ensure the Risk strategy aligns with and supports the wider strategies within the Bank.
• Ensure Risk Management is aligned to existing frameworks and programmes with enterprise risk and operational risk.
• Support and embed practices for the effective and timely reporting to appropriate risk committees on the evolution and progress of the Risk Strategy and regular status updates for reporting to the CISO.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Provide ongoing reporting of risk exposure into governance meetings and to key stakeholders and escalate any blockages

Other Responsibilities

• Ability to create effective work relationships across functions & borders
• Understanding of the regulatory environment and developments related to the financial services industry
• Strong change management, stakeholder and relationship management experience, ideally from within financial services industry
• Sound knowledge of risk governance frameworks & processes
• Analytical / critical thinking skills

Ideally you will have:

• Previous experience in a similar role, responsible for the risk framework strategy
• Experience in a senior role in risk and/or governance
• At least one Cyber Security certification, CISM, CISSP or similar
• An understanding of high-level cyber threat scenarios and how they can contribute to the development of a threat focused cyber risk framework
• Ability to communicate and explain complicated risk issues to business stake holders in across the Bank in a simple and business-friendly way
• Ability to construct and produce complex risk reporting governance materials in a business-friendly way
• A self-starter, able to take initiation, to navigate within the approved parameters to work out a sensible and practical recommendation or decision