Senior Information Security Manager

Senior Information Security Manager

• London - hybrid, ideally 2-3 office days per week
• £100- £140,000 (dependent on experience)

My client, a leading high street bank in the City are actively looking for a Senior Information Security Manager to join their expanding team. This is an exciting time to join the bank as they continue to expand their security team in London. You will also deputise for the Head of Cyber Security and have extensive project leadership responsibilities. Ideally you will have extensive experience working with project management teams in a regulated financial services environment.

The role:

• Deputise for the Head of Security as required.
• Act as the security leader for the designated programmes of work.
• Implement, maintain, improve and where possible automate the UK owned and/or operated processes and procedures as required for all aspects of Operational Security standard controls with specific focus on the analysis, management, mitigation and documentation of risk
• Ensure the Security Operations team is appropriately skilled and trained to fulfil the Bank's needs by developing and implementing a training plan across the team and ensuring it is applied.
• Forge strong partnerships with Change Management/Engineering/Development teams to integrate Security and ensure security is considered as part of the project and agile change lifecycles with risks identified, assessed and managed.
• Develop and maintain a strong working partnership with our parent bank's security and operational teams.
• Lead mixed internal teams to manage security incidents in accordance with the Bank's processes and act as an advisor to the Bank's senior leadership in the event of a security incident.
• Represent the UK Information Security Team at Governance Committees, and coordinate regular reporting and submissions, to ensure and support the Committee's oversight.
• Maintain close relationships with stakeholders such as UK Technology, Group Security, Risk, Project Demanders, Internal Audit
• Provide specialist Information Security advice and challenge on mitigation plans.

Ideal Candidate:

• Extensive experience working within Information Security Governance, aligning to Risk and Control frameworks.
• Proven knowledge of compliance, UK regulatory requirements and experience managing audits
• Cloud technologies such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Azure Active Directory, M365
• Knowledge of building Security into modern Software Development techniques and pipelines
• Technical Security/Engineering background with a track record in Security Operations
• lead, manage and develop strong teams across multiple locations, including wellbeing and performance of a team.
• influence decision making to surface and mitigate operational issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders, up to and including senior management / executive.
• prioritise and deliver competing priorities and manage stakeholders effectively.
• own and / or oversight the delivery of key processes and/or improvement projects.
• take responsibility and act autonomously.
• plan, organise and prioritise tasks and projects.
• have the ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• be a strong team player.

For more details, please reach out to Mary Pearson on - mary.pearson@sandersonplc.om.