Security Compliance Senior Analyst in London

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Coinbase is looking for a Security Compliance Manager to drive second line of defense technology compliance initiatives across our crypto derivatives services and drive risk reduction through ‘controls by design’ and ongoing monitoring.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Control Assessment: Lead technical deep dive control assessments into crypto derivatives products, services and supporting systems (including perpetual swaps, futures, and options) to assess risk and control design, identify areas of weakness and control failures, and recommend risk reduction initiatives within a high-frequency, low-latency trading environment.
• SOX Compliance: Assess SOX, SOC 2 and ISO27001 implications of crypto derivatives services and assess their compliance posture against those frameworks and certifications.
• Compliance Advisory: Translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable engineering and business requirements, ensuring systems for collateral management, market data, and trade settlement are demonstrably compliant.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, Engineering, and Product to advise on technology and security requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership.
• Incident Evaluation: Lead incident impact analysis procedures for Consumer products and services.
• Metrics and Reporting: Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership on above responsibilities and communicate progress and escalations management.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution.
• Documentation and Training: Develop and maintain comprehensive control and testing requirement documentation and deliver training to owners over control implementation, maintenance and remediation plans.
• Risk Mitigation: Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex regulatory problems faced by the crypto industry.
• Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• 6+ years of experience working in a technical controls or GRC engineering function, or equivalent experience.
• Control domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, SOX, SOC, COBIT.
• Strong technical acumen: Ability to analyze and map complex, crypto-native technical processes to traditional control objectives.
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time.
• Clear/concise communicator and writer: Experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables.
• Regulatory familiarity: Understanding of financial derivatives is essential.
• Drive for continuous learning: Willingness to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Coinbase.
• Excellent organization and project management skills: Able to perform effectively in a fast-moving and demanding environment.
• Clear cross-functional communication: Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on shared outcomes.

Nice to haves:

• FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer-facing disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of risk/control issues in relation to evolving technology.
• Certification is a plus, but not a requirement: information security risk management qualifications like CISA, CISSP, CISM.
• Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3.
• BA or BS in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with MiFiD requirements.

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision). Pay Range: £127,080 GBP - £141,200 GBP.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity: Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.