Business Information Security Officer

Barclays UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Business Information Security Officer based in Knutsford, England. This role involves collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to enhance cybersecurity, manage threats, and uphold security policies. The ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of security frameworks and excellent communication skills to engage with senior management. Responsibilities include risk assessments, policy development, and managing complex incidents, ensuring the organization's strategic objectives are aligned with security initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to engage effectively with all stakeholders, including Senior Executives.
• Experience executing risk assessments to guide cybersecurity strategies.
• Ability to manage complex cybersecurity incidents effectively.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their security requirements.
• Execute risk assessments to identify potential cybersecurity threats.
• Manage implementation and testing of security controls across IT systems.
• Develop and implement security policies aligned to risk management.

Skills

Understanding of Security & Control Frameworks & Methodologies

Knowledge of Security Tooling and industry standards, including NIST frameworks

Excellent communication skills

Background in the finance domain

Experience in a large, complex organisation

Job description

Join Barclays as a Business Information Security Officer. We currently have two openings, each aligned to different areas: one focused on developer environments and the other on infrastructure technologies. In this role, you will work closely with key technology and business stakeholders to ensure that strategic objectives are supported and that the organisation operates in a secure environment with security proactively embedded into our services. This position offers high visibility across Cyber & Technology leadership, partnering with senior management to help them understand their cyber risk posture and identify the actions and priorities needed to strengthen it.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Understanding of Security & Control Frameworks & Methodologies.
• Knowledge of Security Tooling and industry standards, including NIST frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, up to and including Senior Executives.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Background in the finance domain.
• Experience working within a large, complex organisation, collaborating across teams, and navigating structured processes.

Purpose of the role

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
• Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness and provide guidance on safe online practices.
• Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.