Job Description
Information Security Consultant required for market leading financial services firm who are undertaking an Information Security Third Party Risk programme.
Responsibilities:

• Conduct robust assessments of proposed third party services or software to ensure that security risks are identified and appropriately mitigated or managed within the Group's risk appetite.
• Report your findings and define recommendations to remediate any control gaps identified through the course of the review.
• Develop Information Security focussed questions for the initial RFI / RFP process (based on the type of service being provided).
• Provide an information security opinion on each proposal, ensuring the key risks are identified and articulated to the project.
• Prepare the security element of the contract, and work with Legal Services in tailoring the contract as required to address any findings / risks identified during the security review.
• Provide advice and Guidance to Legal/Procurement on the content of the security provisions when the contract is being drafted or produced by the supplier.
• Manage a number of varied stakeholders involved in on-boarding new suppliers to the Bank e.g. CISRO, Procurement, Legal and Project Manager.
• Develop and build relationships internally and externally with key business and technical stakeholders, central functions and key third parties and supplier contacts supporting onboarding.
• Ensure that security requirements and controls are implemented by working closely with Design, Build and Test resources, as well as Business Stakeholders and suppliers.
• Represent the Cyber Projects team at Programme/Workstream level Design Authorities and Workstream daily stand ups providing security advice in relation to the solution/s being proposed.
• Drive compliance with Information Security Standards, as well as Legal, Regulatory and Scheme security requirements.
• Ensure that relevant security risks are identified and articulated to a high standard for review in line with risk appetite.
• Taking difficult business issues and creating win-win outcomes for Security and the Business.

Nice to have

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the security related technical controls which prevent / mitigate Cyber Security risks.
• Working knowledge and demonstrable experience of information security related policy, standards and methodologies and associated information security legislation and scheme standards, particularly the ISO27001 Framework.
• Understanding of the attack vectors, methods, and actors in relation to Cyber security
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work across a wide variety of frameworks and models.
• The ability to identify and communicate risk at the Enterprise level.
• Superb stakeholder management & influencing skills across a broad range of technical and non-technical stakeholders and all levels within the Group.
• Great presentation, oral and written communication skills with an ability to convey complex technical concepts and issues to non-technical colleagues.

As an ideal candidate, you will have an industry certification such as CISSP/ CISM/ CRISC and have expert knowledge in Information Security and Third-Party Risk Management. You will also have proven experience of independently leading information security third party risk programmes in previous roles. Experience within insurance or financial services is preferred.