Manager ICS Technical Controls Testing

Job Description

• Significant transformation is underway within the Operations function to rapidly improve the Cyber, Data, Privacy and Automation control environment, along with digitization and innovation. A new function, TDR (Trust, Data & Resilience), has been formed by pulling together Cyber Security Services, TPSR, ICS Operations, Data Management and Privacy, Automation and Resilience into one function to:
• Grow trust with clients and regulators.
• Best practice cyber security solutions; protection of data and privacy; improve resilience; reduce risk.
• Leverage analytics and insights to enable data monetisation.
• Real time analytics; process automation; customer insights; eco-system partnerships; disruptive business practices.
• Be an enabler to journeys.
• Steer the Bank using trust, innovation and data; supply real time information for actionable measures.
• To help grow trust with clients and regulators and maximize risk reduction, a Senior Manager of ICS Technical Controls Testing role has been created to execute the testing of key ICS controls across the bank s critical IT systems.
• This new team will provide planning, execution, reporting, governance, as well as advocating and imparting lessons and good practice to shape the design and implementation of ICS key controls testing across all the bank s critical IT systems. In addition, determining whether these key controls are operating effectively via an evidence-based testing process.
Key responsibilities include
• Execute a consistent, sustainable and re-performable technical control testing framework/methodology for the bank s critical IT systems.
• Support the provision of timely and accurate control testing MI to the respective risk forums across business and functions.
• Promote compliance with the Bank s risk framework and policies (e.g. ERMF, ORTF and ICS RTF).
• Support stakeholders in defining remediation actions to address identified control weaknesses and issues across critical IT systems, and associated processes.
• Track issue remediation, check and challenge delivery status and escalate delays.
• Identify opportunities for automation of controls testing.
Strategic
• Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders to facilitate.
• Effective ICS key controls testing.
• The provision of timely, expert advice and assurance.
• Partnerships with other functions to provide professional advice and assurance.
Processes
• Support the continuous improvement of risk and control processes, aligning to and avoiding duplication with other assurance functions.
People and Talent
• Provide proactive self-orienting and self-motivating leadership, and work with limited direction.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Set appropriate tone and expectations, and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Cultivate the right mix of SME and risk and control skills.
Risk Management
• Adopt an anticipatory approach to risk assessment through stakeholder engagement and monitoring of the external environment.
• Work with other control assurance teams to drive efficiency, effectiveness and reduce duplication.
• Provide robust challenge and escalation to senior management to ensure activities achieve risk reduction.
• Manage and drive continuous improvement of the ICS technical control environment through proactive risk management.
Governance
• Tracking and reporting of risk assessments (e.g., audits, risk assessments etc) and their outputs to ensure oversight and escalation mechanisms are in place to provide MI on obligations.
• Work with the Application / Service Owners of critical IT systems to identify emerging ICS risks and ensure they are appropriately addressed by relevant technical controls.
Regulatory and Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank.
• Contribute to the Controls team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles: The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate and resolve conduct and compliance matters.
• Provide timely and accurate risk and control information to support regulatory meetings and RFIs.
Key Stakeholders
• Head of ICS Technical Controls Testing
• Head of Regulatory Attestations and Central Controls Testing
• Group Operational Risk
• Group CISRO
• Group Internal Audit - T&I and Operations and Cyber
Our Ideal Candidate
• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Economics, Law or other relevant areas.
• 5 - 8 years in IT / Cyber Audit and/or Cyber Risk Management.
• Professional qualifications such as CISA / CRISC / CISM will be advantageous.
• Technical knowledge on security controls best practices across different platforms, systems and security tools.
• Good understanding of security processes, risks and controls, audit and testing methodologies.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Business Process Design
• Process Management
• Risk Management
• Regulatory Environment - Financial Services
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Keyskills :
keeping things simplehuman skillsinternal auditcyber securityrisk reductiondata managementrisk assessmentcontrol testingcomputer science