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Regular or Temporary:
Regular
Language Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
This position reports directly to the Truist Head of the Office of the CISO and will be responsible for the ongoing assessment of information security and third-party security risks to help drive the Truist Information Security program following enterprise information risk management policies and standards. S/he is responsible for establishing risk assessment frameworks, conducting regular assessments, developing risk reduction recommendations, feeding actionable reporting to governance and risk management committees, and coordinating with the Cyber Security Governance & Control Office (GCO) and Third Party Risk Management functions. The position will work closely with the CISO, Information Security Managers, Infrastructure, IT and Business teams to assess information security and third-party threats and risks. The ideal candidate will have a broad knowledge of Information Security functions, technologies (including digital/cloud), banking information security and third-party risk assessment frameworks, as well as current information security and vendor threat and risks. The ideal candidate will also have prior experience building and running an information security and third-party risk assessment function in the US for a large bank with merger/acquisition transformational change.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Define and implement the Information Security risk assessment framework, approach and processes that align with latest industry best practices and are integrated with Truist’s Risk Management policies.
2. Establish a “risk database” to capture, assess and track information security and third-party threats and risks.
3. Build and execute a periodic information security risk assessment process to identify the critical information security risks and mitigating actions to address them. This will feed the risk-driven project portfolio to advance the banks security capabilities and risk posture.
4. Work with second line to aggregate information security and third-party security risks using an industry standard framework and categories to identify concentration risk and inform the banks security posture.
5. Ensure information security and third-party risk mitigation actions are being taken to improve the banks security posture year over year.
6. Work with the BISOs to support the Business functions across the bank in identifying and understanding information security and third-party risks in their risk and control self-assessment activities.
7. Build and develop a team of highly skilled information security and third-party risk assessment professionals that help deliver the strategic program goals.
8. Motivate and manage a team of cross-functional performers from different job families and organizations and foster a fast-paced and flexible team culture, encouraging and rewarding associates for engaging beyond their job description to get work done.
9. Provide information security and third-party risk assessment actionable intelligence to the CISO, InfoSec teams, and enterprise risk management functions.
10. Develop strategic partnerships with consulting and staff augmentation companies that can provide risk assessment resources to rapidly mature the risk assessment function and meet deliverables.
11. Provide detailed status reporting on all information security and third-party risks to the CISO management team, stakeholders, executive management, second and third lines of defense, and regulators as needed.
12. Establish strong collaboration, working partnerships and alignment across teams in Truist, with a special focus on second line IT risk management team. Develop a strong “we deliver together” culture.
13. Support the CISO liaising with regulators and internal audit in exams and other matters related to information security and third-party security risk assessments.
14. Build information security and third-party security risk assessments awareness and education content and work with learning and development teams to deliver it to increase employee and executive awareness and capabilities.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. BS IT/ Computer Science / Cyber Security, MIS, Economics, Finance, Operations Management, or a related discipline. MBA or related graduate degree a plus.
2. 15+ years professional experience in top 10 USA banks or other financial institution, consulting firm, and/ or software company, preferably within a merger/acquisition environment with significant transformational change with people, process, and technology.
3. 10+ years information security and third-party security threat and risk assessment and management experience, including using industry frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT, NIST CSF, CIS RAM, MITRE.
4. 2+ years’ experience with digital banking deployed on public cloud platforms and (strong plus) leveraging artificial intelligence technologies.
5. Broad knowledge of Information Security frameworks (e.g., NIST, FFIEC), regulations (SOX, GLBA, NYDFS), functions (Anticipate, Protect, Detect, Respond) and information security controls.
6. Expertise working across IT and business functions and with second and third lines of defense, and regulators.
7. Demonstrates strong relationship management skills. Proven ability to quickly build trust and rapport with others in order to structure problems, build consensus, and negotiate agreement.
8. Proven ability to manage large, deadline-driven projects in a way that reduces risk, ensures predictable results, meets or exceeds its timeline.
9. Thrives in a fast-paced environment, can think and act both tactically and strategically.
10. Exhibits high degree of creativity, self-motivation, and commitment to task.
11. Ability to create a strong network of relationships among peers, internal partners, external constituencies, and decision makers to deliver end products.
12. Experience preparing materials for and comfortable presenting to executive management.
13. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
14. Strong coordination, influencing and negotiation skills.
15. Excellent risk-based judgement and decision making
16. Passionate about building world-class Information Security programs.
General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
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