Job Description

Are you a seasoned cybersecurity expert looking for a range of challenging and diverse projects? Join our cybersecurity team, where you will work to enable the business to achieve their goals securely, working collaboratively within a global organization to deliver results.

In this role, you will have direct interactions with business leaders, commercial and deal teams, regulators, and auditors, and apply your technical expertise to:

• advise deal team teams during investments, mergers, and acquisitions,
• assess the IT security posture of a broad range of organisations that Macquarie wants to invest in, from start-ups to SMEs and corporate firms across industry verticals (e.g. energy, infrastructure, healthcare, telecommunications, transport, digital and technology),
• partner with technology teams to assess cyber risks and ensure cybersecurity is embedded early in the design of new products and services
• advise commercial teams on the inclusion of cybersecurity terms in contracts and RFIs
• ensure regulatory compliance and support cybersecurity audits.

Your impact and contribution:

You will act as a trusted advisor to the EMEA business and entities of the Group and serve as a point of contact for internal business stakeholders including technology, risk, compliance, legal and privacy teams as well as, internal and external audit teams. You will provide appropriate, contextualized and pragmatic technical security advice while managing technology and business stakeholder expectations, articulating cybersecurity risks and recommendations in line with risk appetite.

Applying your analytical mindset, you will assess the implications of regulatory obligations and identify opportunities for the continued evolution and compliance of Macquarie\'s cyber standards and controls. You will use you strong communication skills and attention to detail to develop shared collateral for communicating cyber-related issues to regulators, the business and compliance, risk, and technology teams.

In this role you will:

• Evaluate the security risks to which the operating groups and entities are exposed, define mitigation measures, monitor the effectiveness of these measures and drive risk reduction (e.g. by facilitating the adoption of group standards and central solutions).
• Assess the cyber security maturity and evaluate the cybersecurity risks of investments, mergers and acquisitions, and issue recommendations to the deal teams on the remediation plans to protect our investments and risks to Macquarie.
• Partner with Technology teams to assess and articulate cybersecurity risks of new projects, change initiatives and new products, and specify security control requirements based on threat modelling and standards.
• Utilise your analytical skills to develop management information (KRIs/KPIs) and deliver periodic cybersecurity reports to senior management and boards and assist senior executives in regulated positions with tailored cyber risk updates.
• Keep up to date with regulatory requirements for ICT and Cybersecurity, participating in industry working groups and advocacy activities; Perform gap analysis between the Macquarie policies and standards, and the ICT and Cybersecurity regulatory obligations, including FCA/PRA, CBI, ACPR, BaFin/KAiT, CSSF, EBA guidelines, etc; Collaborate with colleagues to ensure that regulatory requirements are understood and met.
• Assist with assurance activities, audit planning and coordination, including regulatory examinations (direct interaction with regulators expected).
• Respond to management, board, client and regulatory information requests on cybersecurity risks and controls.
• Provide cybersecurity expertise to legal and commercial teams during contractual and other commercial activities.
• Develop and deliver tailored cybersecurity awareness, training, and briefings.

Your skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience in a technical security project advisory role and in a regulated industry (financial services an advantage)
• Strong knowledge of the common information security frameworks (e.g. NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO27001, CIS), secure application development and industry standard frameworks (NIST, COBIT, ISO27001, threat modelling frameworks) is essential to deliver project lifecycle support.
• Good understanding of the security capabilities of the main cloud platforms AWS, GCP, Azure

• Familiarity and exposure to assessing compliance to regulatory obligations and practised in interacting with regulators and auditors. Appetite to take on a regulated role in the future.

• Strong analytical skills, with excellent attention to details.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate cybersecurity issues and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and present information in high quality PowerPoint presentations and written board papers in a concise way tailored to the audience.
• Self-starter, able to effectively partner with the business and work collaboratively with colleagues in multiples offices around the globe (including Australia).
• A mindset that is focused on championing an inclusive and diverse culture, understanding the importance of continuous improvement, learning, and maintaining a commercial perspective.

It would be beneficial but not essential if you had:

• Bachelor\'s degree in information technology, Cyber Security or a related area, or relevant postgraduate degrees; and complimented by industry qualifications (e.g. CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CISSP, SSCP, CIPP/E) or and cloud platform certifications will be advantageous.
• Exposure to privacy requirements, vulnerability management, security testing and system configuration, access management, operational resilience, cloud security, and threat modelling are desirable.

If this sounds like you, and you are ready to take the next step in your career, please apply now.

About the Corporate Operations Group

In our Corporate Operations Group, you will work at the heart of Macquarie. Join a collaborative team who accelerate digitalisation, sustainability and social impact for the benefit of our people, customers, shareholders and communities. Our teams include technology, digital transformation and data, operations, human resources, business services, corporate strategy and solutions and the Macquarie Group Foundation.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion. As an inclusive employer, Macquarie does not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race (including color and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief.

About Macquarie

A career at Macquarie means you\'ll have the opportunity to develop new skills, explore interesting fields and do challenging work that will impact the lives of people around the world-whether it\'s accelerating the green energy transition, helping sustain global food supplies, financing social housing projects or investing in essential infrastructure. At Macquarie, we\'re empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future.

Macquarie is a global financial group providing clients with asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory, capital raising and principal investment.

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Job no: COG-974216
Work type: Permanent - Full time
Location: London
Category: Senior, Technology
Group: Corporate Operations Group
Division: Technology
Recruiter: Rob Evans
Opening Date: 07/8/2023

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