Head of IT & Security Governance Risk & Compliance

ENGINEERINGUK; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Head of IT & Security Governance Risk & Compliance

We're Kingfisher, a team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London & Southampton.

Cyber security attacks are increasing and the threat landscape is changing. You will establish IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Framework to manage risk and meet regulatory requirements.

What's the job

• Leading the end-to-end management of the security risk environment and internal security control framework; assisting and supporting risk and control owners in mitigating/resolving cyber and information security risk and control weaknesses ensuring that the Group continues to operate within risk appetite and regulations.
• Develop and maintain the security governance framework, ensuring alignment with industry standards, regulations, and risk appetite.
• Implement governance, reporting and escalation of risks impacting customers, colleagues and operations to ensure key checkpoints are met in line with stakeholder and business requirements whilst supporting the Group CISO being responsible for cyber and information security risk.
• Implement and lead the Group's ISMS ensuring the Group remains in compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements, maintaining certification where relevant.
• Partner with Group Audit and Risk teams to ensure IT and Security Risk management is aligned to business process, demonstrating risk reduction against Kingfisher's principal risks and collaborating with third line risk functions to improve the management of risk across the Group and the effective closure of audit findings.
• Share subject matter expert as a service on security related risk matters, providing support to the Group CISO where required, staying abreast of emerging threats, vulnerabilities and incidents.
• Act as the main interface between Kingfisher and its Banners and the IT & Security Governance, Risk and Compliance team as service providers, creating greater oversight over Banner risks and compliance issues.
• Define and collect metrics / KPIs and periodically report to leadership on overall effectiveness of the IT & Security Governance, Risk and Compliance team. Producing operational reports creating insight into IT & Security Governance view to demonstrating impact and value in investment.
• Provide leadership and management of the IT & Security Governance, Risk and Compliance team to ensure an effective, efficient and proactive approach to governance, risk and compliance, and support incident response activity when needed.

What you'll bring

• Experience of delivering and maintaining IT & Security Governance, Risk and Compliance frameworks, embedding and changing behaviour in a matrix organisation.
• Experience of defining and embedding a culture of visible, responsive and effective service provision within a team whilst leading IT and security governance and compliance and implementing methods to record, track and monitor decisions and risks ensuring visibility.
• Excellent understanding of the principles, theories, practices and techniques for activities associated with planning and implementing information security management frameworks and general IT controls.
• Demonstrable understanding of Information Security control standards and frameworks e.g. ISO27001, NIST, PCI DSS, and Cloud Security Standards.
• Experience in chairing effective governance meetings with senior representation with the ability to translate technical risks and impact to technical and non-technical colleagues in all areas of the business.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and handle resources within a collaborative team-based environment, including rapid response to incidents where needed.
• High level of personal integrity, as well as the ability to handle confidential matters, and show an appropriate level of judgment and maturity.

Core Values

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers' experience

• I listen to my customers.
• I use available data to help make decisions.

Be Human - acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing.
• I am respectful.

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas.
• I try new things and share my learnings.

Be Agile - working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative.
• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20.

Be Inclusive - acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship.
• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn.

Be Accountable - championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions.
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role.

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.