Job Summary

The role is to perform risk and control activities for the Information and Cyber Security Services. This team provides risk management, risk governance and assurance services, as well as advocating and imparting lessons and good practice to shape the design and implementation of cyber security controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform all risk and control activities related to all people, processes and assets within the Information and Cyber Security function.
• Act as the confidant to the Information Cyber Security ‘Process Owner(s)’ responsible for developing, prioritizing and implementing controls.
• Drive compliance with the Bank’s risk frameworks and policies.
• Deliver risk focused, timely and re-performable deep dive reviews.
• Support design and maintenance of internal processes that allow to dynamically monitor risk as well as effectively mitigate identified gaps.
• Maintain Information and Cyber Security controls and corresponding metrics.
• Provide timely and accurate risk & control MI to the management within risk management systems and repositories.
• Support stakeholders in defining remediation actions to address identified control weaknesses as well as track remediation, check and challenge delivery status.
• Support the delivery of the Conduct Risk Management plan.
• This role will be predominantly focusing on Endpoint and Server Protection, Email Security and Data Leakage Protection services.

Skills and Experience

• Risk & control, assurance or audit experience which must include some element of experience in a ‘first line’ team preferably within international financial services organisation.
• Understanding of the information and cyber security domain (Endpoint and Server Protection, Email Security and Data Leakage Protection services would be preferable).
• Highly effective oral and written communication skills, with an ability to influence and to gain the respect of senior stakeholders and peers (English).

Preferred (but not essential): 

•  Ability to challenge the status quo.
• Excellent organisation skills with ability to work with limited direction, manage multiple deadlines and effectively prioritise workload.
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Confident and courageous to raise/escalate issues in a pro-active, professional and timely manner.
• Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor / Honours Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cyber Security or other technology related qualifications or 6+ years of experience in cyber/IT security, technology audit or assurance.
• Professional ICS (i.e., CISSP) or Risk management related certification (i.e. CISA, CRISC) - nice to have.

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.