Information Assurance Lead

My client, a major Financial Services institute, are looking for an Information Assurance Lead to join their growing team in London. For this role you have to be eligible to be SC cleared (which means you would have to worked and lived in UK last 5 years continuously). You are required to be in their London offices two times per week.

About the Information Assurance Lead role:

The Information Assurance Lead role sits within the wider Assurance team of my client's Cyber and Information Resilience department.

This department is responsible for the management of cyber security. 'Cyber security' means the protection of the my client's data and systems from malicious activity, including theft, damage and disruption, in order that the my client can deliver its key business functions.

What you will be doing (the role)

• Defining the technical and managerial measures to ensure the privacy, control, integrity, authenticity, availability and utility of my client's corporate repositories and information systems, in particular the M365 suite
• Information risk analysis - conduct scheduled information assurance risk reviews and assessments to identify, evaluate, test and prioritise potential security and data risks across our key applications and processes
• Perform security and information assurance assessments against my client's information and data controls and regulatory control frameworks to our cyber and information security policies, standards and procedures
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and legislative requirements, support information related audits relating to information security and implement intelligence led attestations and reports related to information security and implement corrective actions where necessary
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and policies within the M365 suite, utilising tools such as MS Purview and other e5 tools by Prioritising and Influencing key stakeholders in building core functionality within Microsoft 365 through a risk based approach
• Detect, Assess, measure and report findings of our key applications and security and information assurance controls, including assurance oversight with security solutions to protect against malware, ransomware and other other cyber and data threats, such as endpoint security, data leakage, data breaches, post incident response

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Evidence of delivering solutions across SAAS based information applications in particular Microsoft 365 security tools, monitoring, alerting, and reporting
• Demonstrable evidence of managing a Data or Information Assurance team
• Experience with agile working including agile tools such as JIRA

Essential

• Demonstrating ability of building an Information Management Assurance or Information Compliance Framework
• Working knowledge of information management and security concepts, aims, and industry standards like NIST CSF, ISO15489, GDPR and ISO27001
• Experience implementing policy modules for automation across industry standards including ISO27001 and GDPR
• Experience of delivering solutions in Microsoft 365 security and information compliance tools, including working knowledge of Microsoft Purview capabilities to deliver the best security and data solutions to drive compliance across the Microsoft Office Suite
• Skilled manager to lead a technical and non-technical team to drive the information assurance agenda

If this sounds of interest please apply to this role or call me to find out more.

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