Our client, a leading financial institution with massive real-time high-frequency transactions, is looking for an IT Risk Associate to join their IT Risk Governance Team. The selected candidate will be a key person in supporting their Security and Risk Management.

Responsibilities:
– Manage the IT Risk and Control Framework across the IT Organization.
– Define IT Risk standards and Control in response to the changing technology landscape and regulatory requirements.
– Ensure the IT policy, processes, and procedures are well established and awarded across the organization.
– Manage IT Risk incidents including identifying the root cause, control options, recommendations, and resolutions.
– Communicate with regulators, and auditors including compliance assessment, security audits, etc.
– Review IT outsourcing providers and perform regular security assessments on IT outsourcing services.
– Manage IT Audits and ensure risk-impacting issues are addressed before the initiation of the audit.

Requirements:
– Around 8 – 10 years of experience in IT Security and Risk area ideally in a 1.5 Line of Defense.
– Experience with IT Security and risk management in a large-scale financial institution.
– Experience in technology risk & control including policies and standards, risk and control assessments, access controls,  regulatory compliance, technology resiliency, governance and metrics, incident management etc
– Solid understanding of internal control concepts with the ability to evaluate and determine the adequacy of controls by considering business and technology risks.
– Familiar with industry risk frameworks including ISO27001, NIST, PCI.
– Excellent communication skills in English.
– Certificates in CGEIT, CRISC, CISA, and/or CISSP are a great plus.
– Good knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ITIL, CMMI, ITSM, COBIT, and PMBOK.
– Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related discipline.

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