Director: Information Security Auditing at NTT Ltd · Barcelona

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Your day at NTT DATA The Director, Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance is a leadership role that supports the company by way of protecting its brand, warranting compliance to its regulatory and contractual obligations.

This role participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives and makes final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensures operations effective achievement of objectives

This role is accountable for developing goals, objectives and program of work to achieve the strategic objectives, manage the people resources and budget for the program whilst fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on operational excellence.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversees the development, evaluation and implementation of Information Security Policy, Standards, and Guidelines.
• Oversees information security risk assessments, TRA, TFA and policy compliance reviews and supports the development and operational effectiveness of IT security controls.
• Manages and monitors Group risk in the company preferred risk management solution, ensure that risk is assessed, allocated and assigned, managed, monitored, and treated appropriately.
• Develops, scopes and discusses security compliance review schedules, reviews risk registers, risk and policy exceptions and authorization and performs threat and risk assessments of new technologies and vendors.
• Documents improvement in service design and ensures that the required security plan is developed and reviewed.
• Reviews service level and business requirements to develop service methodologies and an information security policy, assessments and methodologies.
• Advises on the reporting requirements and ensures the overall implementation of the ISM policy in service operation.
• Assists with the design and operation of related compliance with both internal security policies and application laws and regulations.
• Ensures that appropriate security assessment have been carried out so that the ISMS security strategy is developed and aligned to service and operational requirements.
• Develops an ISMS security audit management strategy that is aligned to service and operational requirements and develop information security design criteria and templates.
• Considers technical requirements and implications of service and business levels and develop the ISMS security review criteria, verifying that the solution design meets ISMS, client, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluates the adequacy, implementation, maintenance of operational processes, guides and drives the implementation of process controls to ensure alignment to ISMS obligations. When deviations occur, ensures root cause is identified and treated. Monitors and holds accountable managers to implement prevention and remediation to ensure ongoing compliance to ISM policy.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Relevant people management skills.
• Significant understanding of complex inter-relationships in an overall system or process.
• Excellent interpersonal and consultative skills with the ability to map business needs to technology solutions.
• Ability to discuss and report technology and information security risk with non-technology and executive business stakeholders.
• Ability to display analytical thinking and a proactive approach.
• Team player with the ability to display consistent client focus and orientation.
• Ability to develop, define and articulate ISM strategies.
• Excellent strategic thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to plan and organize, with good project management skills.
• Significant understanding of security risk management, operational processes and controls - End-to-end information security risk lifecycle management.
• Significant knowledge of information security management and policies, risk management and risk frameworks.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of security threats, countermeasures, security tools, and network technologies.
• Significant knowledge of technological advances within the information security arena.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Computer Science degree or related field.
• Security certifications such as CISA, CRISC, COBIT, IIA or equivalent preferred.
• Certifications such as Lead audit/Implementer - ISO 27001, SOC TSP preferred.

Required experience:

• Significant experience gained within the Technology Information Security Industry.
• Significant experience with Operational Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Management.
• Significant experience with Enterprise Risk Management solutions (i.e., ServiceNow GRC or similar).
• Significant experience in technical Information Security consulting, architecture, design, implementation.
• Significant experience managing and leading Information Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance teams preferably gained within a similar organizational environment.

Workplace type: Hybrid Working

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