Role Description
• Broad understanding of cybersecurity across Security Operations, engineering, technology, controls, and tooling, with the ability to translate technical topics into clear regulatory and executive-level messaging.
• Strong knowledge of IT (preferably cybersecurity) governance, risk management, and compliance, including experience assessing cyber regulatory compliance and supporting regulatory exams and inquiries.
• Demonstrated program management capability, with end-to-end ownership of time-bound, non-discretionary regulatory deliverables (e.g., CRI Profile assessment, GLBA reporting, NYDFS attestation support), including planning, execution, quality control, and submission readiness.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain repeatable, auditable operating models by documenting processes and building program artifacts (procedures, templates, guidance, training materials, trackers, and evidence repositories).
• Ability to analyze and interpret cybersecurity risk and control metrics (KPI/KRI/KCI), identify data discrepancies, drive root-cause analysis with stakeholders, and track remediation actions through to closure.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to coordinate across 1LOD, 2LOD, CCO Tech, Group Cybersecurity, technology teams, control owners, and non-US ITSOs to deliver outcomes on schedule.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline (e.g., IT/Risk) or equivalent work experience.
• One or more industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM) preferred.
• Strong, demonstrated program management experience, including end-to-end ownership of time-bound regulatory deliverables (e.g., FFIEC CAT/CRI Profile–type assessments and GLBA reporting), including planning, execution, quality control, and submission readiness.
• Prior experience with US Financial Services regulatory (OCC, FRB) engagement, experience in dealing with compliance matters, and regulatory liaison is preferred; knowledge of US Financial Services regulatory requirements is required.
• Ability to build strong relationships and communicate on complex issues with a wide spectrum of stakeholders.
• Ability to efficiently operate and analyze large data sets in Excel; proficiency with Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power BI, Teams).
• Comprehensive understanding of banking and cybersecurity in the context of wider industry trends and direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical subject matter for non-technical audiences, with excellent attention to detail.
Key Responsibilities
• Leads delivery of mandatory United States cybersecurity regulatory programs and submissions, including planning, execution, quality control, and readiness for submission.
• Coordinates and delivers the annual report required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for the Board of Directors, including managing inputs from many stakeholders and ensuring consistent quality year over year.
• Supports regulatory engagement and examinations by coordinating responses, gathering evidence, and ensuring materials are complete, accurate, and suitable for regulators and senior leadership.
• Builds and maintains repeatable, auditable ways of working by documenting processes and maintaining templates, guidance, training materials, trackers, and centralized evidence repositories.
• Produces clear, well-evidenced reporting and briefing materials for senior management, the Board of Directors, and regulators on cybersecurity risk, compliance status, and program outcomes.
• Reviews cybersecurity risk and control performance metrics, identifies data issues, drives root-cause analysis with stakeholders, and tracks remediation actions through closure.
• Prepares materials and action tracking for recurring regulatory governance routines, including meeting packs, follow-ups, and escalation of delivery risks and dependencies.
• Maintains the annual New York State cybersecurity attestation support process, including evidence coordination and leadership briefing materials to enable confident sign-off.
• Drives remediation governance for United States cybersecurity control gaps by obtaining remediation plans from control owners, tracking progress, and coordinating closure.
• Provides governance oversight for the United States cyber service sustainability forum by reviewing remediation plans, ensuring non-compliance is escalated for business decision, and flagging funding risks that could impact service sustainability.
• Represents United States cybersecurity in application security governance forums and acts as the point person for issue resolution and follow-through.
• Leads through influence across cybersecurity, technology, risk, and controls teams, including coordinating the work of others when needed to meet fixed regulatory deadlines.
Regards,
Puneet.