Head of IT Risk Management - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Sitting within the IT department, you will be responsible for safeguarding bank's IT infrastructure and application estate, protecting bank's critical IT assets, and ensuring effective IT governance practices.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Lead the team of IT Risk Managers to implement and operationalize the IT Risk and Control Framework
• This will include but not limited to Writing Policies and Standards, supporting gap analysis against standard, conducting risk and control assessments, review and approve exceptions and maintain risk registers.
• Conduct desk-based supplier risk assessments.
• Ensure effective communication to all key stakeholders in order to sustain relationships between Application, Infrastructure and Technology Risk.
• Interact with compliance, operational risk, audit and legal counsel to understand corporate requirements related to security and regulatory compliance, and map those requirements to current security capabilities.
• Deploy measures, systems and processes to prevent the loss or theft of the Bank's intellectual property.
• Maintain relevant metrics to facilitate reporting and decision making. Identify metrics and produce risk reports for stakeholders notifying them on key risks, incidents progress and status.
• Ensure compliance with existing laws and regulations and ensure a secure IT Environment.
• Support the IT Risk Governance forum through running meetings, preparing packs and reporting.

Experience of IT Risk/Audit gained with a financial institution is an absolute pre-requisite of the role. As is the ability to demonstrate a grasp of the relevant key themes and standards within IT Risk.