AVP, Security Governance, Risk and Assurance

Role: Assistant Vice President Security Governance, Risk and Assurance

Location: London on-site 2 days p/w

Compensation: Up to £90,000 per annum + variable bonuses up to £115,000

Lawrence Harvey are currently partnered with a top-tier Financial Markets firm who are looking for an AVP of Security Governance, Risk and Assurance to join their strong existing Security Governance and Risk Management Department. In this role, you will be reporting to the Director of Security.

This is a great opportunity to work in an innovative fintech environment at a market-leading organization that operate in a Zero-Trust, intelligence-driven environment. If you want to collaborate with Major Central Banks and Financial Institutions, this is for you:

What you will be doing:

• Maintaining and aligning Security Frameworks by developing and upholding security policies, standards, procedures and frameworks, ensuring alignment with NIST CSF and NIST 800-53
• Addressing security gaps, guiding remediation and monitoring progress
• Understanding security gaps and provide evaluation and treatment options, consultation on remediation approaches to address gaps and continue ongoing monitoring of remediation, re-assess until reduced to an acceptable level.
• Supporting Cybersecurity Risk Management strategies based on security findings and observations. Including informing improvements to organizational cybersecurity risk management processes, procedures and activities are identified across all security functions.
• Providing assurance to stakeholders by delivering detailed reporting and metrics.

What you will bring:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Cyber Security, with ideally 2 years experience working in a Security Risk team.
• Organisation, experience with planning, data reporting, information and updates
• Strong ability to work with others to drive forward security objectives.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience with GRC tools (RSA Archer preferred)

Desired qualifications/certifications:

• Ideally a Master\’s Degree in Infromation Security, CICA/CRISC/CISM/Data Analysis
• NIST CSF, ISO27001, SOC 1/2
• Prince 2, MSP, APMQ are advantageous

Sound like your next move?

If it does, apply below or forward a resume to j.walsh@lawrenceharvey.com