Job Summary

Join our team as a Cyber Security Manager, and you’ll lead a team who will strategically guide the Bank’s cybersecurity operations, developing robust defence strategies, managing security infrastructure and ensuring comprehensive protection against evolving cyber threats. 

If you’re searching for a career with high visibility, a steep learning curve and the opportunity to change the future of a global business, you’ve found it. Join our Cyber Defence team and you’ll be given the resources you need to protect our most valuable assets – our people and our products. It’s a demanding job. Our security needs are broad, unique and constantly evolving. That’s why you’ll have the freedom to work autonomously and enjoy access to resources like cyber hub, our dedicated learning programme. Get ready to pioneer better, faster and safer ways to enhance our resilience against threats while keeping our business moving forward. 

About our Technology & Operations Team 
Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  
 
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today. 
 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• The main responsibilities will be to support the Head of Third Party Security Risk in delivering the third party security risk program within the Bank. 

Business

• Effectively perform third party security reviews and ensure quality and timely execution. Portfolio includes reviewing Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and global technology third parties and performing technical deep dive assessments (where applicable). 
• As a SM, perform final security assessment reviews, conclude and publish TPSA (third party security assessment) reports conducted by risk managers and other activities related to TPSR process.  
• Guide Risk Managers on TPSR BAU activities and managed business / third party stakeholders’ expectations in case assistance is required by Risk Managers.
• Make timely and sound judgments, and identify clear solutions from broad, complex or ambiguous situations. 
• Interact with all levels of management within the Bank while performing third party security reviews of service providers across all of the Bank’s markets.
• Effectively communicate the security risks to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Effectively communicate and manage relationships with stakeholders globally.

Processes

• Diligently provide weekly and ad hoc reporting on status of reviews.
• Support any training and awareness initiatives relating to third party security risk.
• Support and assist in third party program improvement initiatives.
• Assist in the development of new/amended processes, innovative ways of working and reviewing risk and control assessments. 
• Assist in the forward planning and prioritisation of vendor assessments or requests from business stakeholders, and resource allocations.

Risk Management

• Maintain a register of third party security risks and ensure that deficiencies are mitigated.
• Support the Head of TPSR to ensure compliance with relevant regulations covering third party security risk.
• Monitor and report on third party security risk compliance to stakeholders.
• Remain current on industry trends and regulatory requirements related to third party information security.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage a register of third party security risks and ensure that deficiencies are mitigated. 
• Support any training and awareness initiatives relating to third party security risk.

Governance 

• Diligently provide weekly and ad hoc reporting on status of reviews.

Regulatory & Business conduct 

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Follow the Leadership of Head of TPSR to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Operation of Financial Markets, Financial Crime Prevention; Creating the Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Supply Chain Management
• Business Functions. 

Other Responsibilities

• Embed “Here for Good” and Group’s brand and values in the TPSR Team
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or above from an accredited college/university in an appropriate field. 
• Strong communication skills in English
• Ideally 7 years of experience in information security / IT auditing, with Big 4 and/or Banking & Financial services experience
• Experience in third party audits is a plus, but understanding of auditing standards, compliance, risk assessment and internal control frameworks is a requirement. 
• Familiarity with working in a MNC or cross-cultural setting.
• Excellent written and interpersonal skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Ability to draft reports that clearly communicate observations and risks would be required.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, and ability to interact at all levels across an organisation.
• Strong audit project organisation and management skills.
• Ability to multitask and ensure that all key priorities are delivered as per agreed timelines.
• Preferable certifications (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, CISA)
• Knowledge of security frameworks (e.g. COBIT, ISF, COSO), standards (e.g. ISO, NIST, CIS), information security principles, security architecture and regulatory requirements will be a plus. 
• Competency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, SharePoint).

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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