Cyber Risk & Compliance Analyst

Manchester
January 22, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Cyber Risk & Compliance Analyst

Company: Aldermore Bank

Job description: Let us tell you a bit about us

We’re UK-based nimble and ambitious financial services specialist supporting our customers across a range of products and services. Aldermore Group was formed by bringing together two very successful businesses, Aldermore Bank and MotoNovo Finance, under the First Rand umbrella.
We thrive by saying “yes” to our customers. We respect the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and their startups; we give first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; we open up the lending market to many; and thousands of customers chose Motonovo Finance every week to buy their next car, van or motorbike.
This is where you come in. We are on a journey. A journey defined by a destination; to deliver on our purpose.

Let us tell you a bit about the opportunity

The Cyber Risk & Compliance Analyst will work within the Cyber Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) pillar of the Aldermore CISO team providing support to the Cyber Risk and Compliance Manager. This role will focus on maintenance of risk management, assurance processes, production of management information and administration of processes/procedures to demonstrate security controls are embedded across the business.
Strong IT and information security skills are required along with a technical understanding of the practical application of information security in architectural designs, Microsoft Technologies, Networking, Cloud and emerging technology.

What will your day look like?

  • Provide guidance regarding technical security best practice to the Aldermore IT team and wider user community
  • Support the maintenance and management of the CISO Risk Register, ensuring risks are appropriately understood, documented and managed throughout their lifecycle.
  • Maintain a working knowledge of technical security requirements and best practice
  • Review, maintain, improve and gain assurance over security controls deployed within the Group
  • Production of regular Security related reports for the CTIO and wider Group
  • Contributes to policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that security best practice is applied across the company
  • General security administration support within the Cyber GRC team
  • Conduct regular reviews of security controls to ensure that they remain effective and fit for purpose, providing pragmatic risk-based advice for remedial any actions
  • Monitor progress of remedial actions, providing support to stakeholders and escalating where actions are outside remediation timescales.
  • Co-ordinates and contributes to security assurance processes
  • General security related support

What do we expect from you?

  • Excellent understanding of information security concepts and practices, including the management of security risk
  • Background working within a technical role, with exposure to aspects of networking, operating systems, software packages and security tooling
  • Experience of reviewing technical designs and solutions to identify security risks and opportunities for improvement
  • Strong analytical and IT related skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong organization skills
  • Experience of developing, implementing and supporting security controls and best practice within a Financial Services environment
  • Microsoft Office experience and skills

What can you expect from us?

  • A friendly and flexible culture, the same as how we work with our customers.
  • A growing organisation that means there’s lots of opportunities to progress
  • A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
  • And of course, you will be rewarded competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Still curious?

Join us and we’ll make the same promises to you as a colleague, as we do to each of our customers. We’re committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. We welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.
Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks

We champion equality by supporting the exceptions to the rule and getting finance to where it’s needed.

We lend the money people save with us, to people who want to get on in life; build businesses and create employment, buy property for people to live and work in, and purchase vehicles to move families and goods around.

Expected salary:

Location: Manchester

Job date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:03:57 GMT

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