Business Information Security Officer PBWM

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Barclays as a Business Information Security Officer, where you’ll support the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and operational excellence. In this role, you will provide cyber information security support to the Private Bank and Wealth Management (PBWM) business line, taking responsibility for managing and overseeing PBWM’s cyber risk posture.

You will be driving and coordinating major cyber security uplift programs for the business unit, leading first line cyber incident management engagement, including identifying and escalating regulatory reporting requirements and engaging with key stakeholders across the PBWM business.

To be successful as a Business Information Security Officer, you should have:

• Ideally a financial services background with significant experience in cyber information security, ideally with experience in the financial industry.
• Extensive experience in implementing cyber information security risk management processes and tools, as well as experience in understanding, mitigating or reducing risks, drawing on technical experience and risk assessments.
• Considerable critical thinking and analytical skills, with substantial demonstrable experience in the cyber information security field, including systems audit, internal controls, and/or security consulting.
• Cyber and information security certifications, such as CISA, CISSP, or similar recognized standards.
• Understanding of the regulatory landscape in the European Union, Singapore, India, including relevant legislation, directives, and regulations governing cyber information security.
• Understanding of a wide range of network and cloud technologies.

This role will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

Purpose of the role

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the bank’s operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the bank’s operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the bank’s IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
• Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness and provide guidance on safe online practices.
• Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
• They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices in other areas, teams, companies, etc. to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.