Information Security Assistant Manager - Information Assurance

Job description

Role - Information Security Assistant Manager

The Team
he role holder will be an assistant manager in the Information Risk Assessment team, helping to provide information risk assessments by supporting how the firm identifies and analyses information security threats and risks to KPMG and client information in projects, initiatives, applications and IT resources, to advise on the controls necessary to keep these risks within agreed limits. The role holder will provide support for the day-to-day service, providing consultancy advice to stakeholders and ensuring risks identified are entered into the Information Risk Register.

The Role
Information risk assessment
• Support the information risk assessment capability and team
• Support the delivery of a highly quality and timely information risk assessment (including Business Impact Assessment) service to the firm
• Support the requirements of the firm’s information risk management framework, to ensure a consistent and structured approach to information risk management is taken across the firm
• Provide consulting advice to project managers and other stakeholders on how best to implement the firm’s information security policies
• Support the firm’s mission to build client trust and confidence with regard to information security generally and information risk assessment specifically
• Stay abreast of industry best practice in relation to information risk assessment, and information technologies.

Policy
• Support the development of the UK firm’s information security policies
• Promote good information security practice and standards across the firm
• Risk management
• Proactively foster an environment that drives appropriate information risk control behaviour, including early anticipation, identification and mitigation of information risk, escalating issues in line with the Information Risk Management Framework.
• Support the on-going development and maintenance of the firm’s Information Risk Management Framework, including its supporting methodologies, processes and artefacts.

Awareness and collaboration
• Establish strong relationships with business and functional teams
• Establish effective relationships with IT service providers and other relevant stakeholders
• Build on and preserve the firm’s reputation with clients, with regard to information security

The Person
Technical knowledge and qualifications
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience of information security with at least 1 year in a specific information risk consulting and assessment/audit capacity
• Good knowledge of one or more information security standards (e.g. Cyber Essentials, ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security, ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Top 20 Controls)
• Good understanding of privacy requirements (including GDPR)
• Good working knowledge of the IT security aspects of IT infrastructure (network and servers) and services, including Cloud computing
• Security certifications essential or working towards (CISSP, CISA, CRISC or equivalents)
Leadership skills
• Strong influencing skills
• Ability to deal with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, in a confident and assured manner
• Ability to prioritise and manage a complex workload, including multiple tasks for themselves.
Analytical skills
• Proven ability to identify and articulate information security requirements, risks and issues, and to make clear decisions and recommendations
• Ability to understand business drivers and risk appetite and to align information security compliance accordingly
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Personal qualities
• A good team player, with the ability to act independently and exercise sound judgment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Strong integrity, independence and resilience
• Excellent attention to detail combined with strategic vision