Brief Role Description

This position is Career Level 30L and is Home Based, with a Role Classification of Fully Remote.

Role Summary

The Sr. Manager of Information Security and IT GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) serves a critical and influential leadership position responsible for the planning, oversight and management of the Information Security Program to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate and client information. The IT GRC Sr. Manager is responsible for directly managing the enterprise wide IT GRC team and makes strategic risk-based decisions enabling the achievement of business objectives and operational excellence. Leads the team that builds and deploys common governance, risk, and compliance processes, controls, conducts audits, and ensures that technologies and business operations structured and configured for data protection and compliance. Reporting directly to the CISO and functioning as Deputy CISO, this role owns and maintains the IT compliance program, technology risk assessment program, data governance program, cyber awareness training program, business continuity disaster recovery program and third-party risk program.

Responsibilities within this Role

Leadership and Management

• Oversee all activities that address technological governance, risk and compliance
• Understand, advocate and communicate company objectives, vision and strategy to staff to ensure contribution towards achieving VCI’s goals
• Develop productive relationships with Business Unit leaders across the organization to influence how applications/technology solutions can enable new sources of value
• Establish and monitor individual team member objectives and competencies in alignment with Talent Management practices

Information Security and IT GRC Strategy and Delivery

• Design and develop the enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance strategy and roadmap that cost-effectively to meet the needs of the business as a whole
• Oversee and mentor front line managers leading risk assessment processes using internal VW Group and industry standard frameworks and regulatory requirements including ITMS, ITSP2, GISP, NIST CSF, NYDFS, GLBA, FFIEC, CCPA, Quebec Privacy and Financial Services and US and Canadian Privacy Guidelines for FinTech Companies
• Data Governance:
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure data governance activities are effectively carried out and act as a principal stakeholder on data governance committees and working groups
• IT Compliance:
  • Oversee the team to facilitate and manage Internal and External Audits including supporting the Business Units with gathering of evidences and coordination of on-site examinations
  • Direct the IT GRC team to conduct on-going relationships with information and business owners on security issues and practices, monitoring compliance, and preparing and enforcing policies
• Vendor & Third-Party Risk:
  • Maintain compliance reporting program and remediation tracking team to convey and influence compliance status of all relevant vendor and third-party relationships
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery:
  • Develop detailed and holistic incident response plans which include training and exercising developed plans, implementing the use of technology for emergency use and ensuring partnership with internal and external partners
  • Validate IT key systems and services to identify continuity risks, analyze root causes and trends in potential control weaknesses; suggest new controls to meet requirements where applicable
• Cyber Education, Training & Awareness:
  • Lead collaboration with internal teams to incorporate targeted security centered communications for various platforms and topics
  • Assist in the promotion of a compliance culture that encourages an “open door” policy for staff to seek clarification on compliance matters.

Budgeting, Finance and Administration

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the IT GRC products and services including staffing, budgeting and other relevant management functions — and is required to hold each risk and compliance delivery team accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and value of solutions and products throughout the product life cycle

Qualification requirements

Relevant Experience:

• 12+ years of experience in governance, risk and compliance with responsibility of a $5M budget or greater
• 7+ years of experience in management role, managing a high performing team of employees in Information Security Risk and Compliance frameworks, such as SOX-ITGC, PCI, ISO 27001/27002, NIST CSF, GDPR, CCPA, etc., for financial services or similarly regulated industries

Required Education:

• B.S. in Information Technology, Computer Science (or related field)

Required Skills:

• Proven ability to lead and direct risk project teams in both traditional and agile development methodologies (XP, CI/CD, TDD, SAFe Agile)
• Strong knowledge and experience in all facets of risk management; able to articulate how it applies to business
• Strong background in third party risk management
• Knowledge of agile and secure software development lifecycle processes and collaboration tools
• Knowledge of effective cyber education, awareness and training