Information Security Analyst

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Information Security Analyst to enhance compliance across Technology and Cyber Security. This pivotal role involves collaborating with stakeholders to deliver insightful management information, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and data visualization skills, with experience in scripting and automation. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will significantly impact the organization’s compliance efforts in a highly regulated environment. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career while making a meaningful difference in the financial services sector.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Finance/IT sector with a focus on data analysis.
• Experience in generating MI dashboards and compliance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Generate and present accurate dashboards for management reports.
• Monitor data for compliance gaps and recommend actions.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Data Visualization

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Stakeholder Management

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

University degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience in Information Management

Tools

Power BI

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Information Security Analyst

Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom)

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Corporate Grade: D - Assistant Vice President

Reporting Line: (UK Division) Information Technology

Location: UK-London

Worker Type: Permanent

Background:

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world's global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME's three trading platforms totalling $18 trillion, 178 million lots and 4 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024.

The metals community uses the LME, an HKEX Group company, as a venue to transfer or take on price risk, as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices.

Overall Purpose of Role:

This role is integral to driving compliance across Technology and Cyber Security for LME and LME Clear, delivering within our risk and compliance frameworks. It requires effective collaboration with peers and senior stakeholders to deliver accurate management information (MI) for the IT function to facilitate informed decisions for the CTO and Boards. The role demands analytical thinking, automation skills, and strong data visualisation techniques to maintain accurate, impactful, and timely dashboards/datasets feeding into Boards and Committees. The MI produced drives both Regulatory and Internal Policy compliance in our highly regulated industry and as a member of the Critical National Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Generate and present timely, accurate dashboards/MI for multiple forums and management reports.
• Enhance and manage the reporting dashboards and data feeds.
• Generate insights from the data to recommend actions for addressing trends.
• Monitor data for compliance gaps against the Policies & Standards.
• Discuss and address compliance metrics with stakeholder groups.
• Maintain and update KPIs, technical procedures, and other supporting documentation.
• Ensure that the function can evidence relevant audit, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Lead team automation and contribute to other initiatives in line with the wider IT strategy.
• Mentor newer team members.
• Deliver day-to-day team activities ensuring Service Level Agreements are met.

Qualifications Required:

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience:

• 4+ years in a role in the Finance/Information Technology Sector.
• Highly analytical thinker and detail-oriented data analyst capable of generating and presenting MI in an intuitive format.
• Experience with:
• Data visualization for effective MI dashboards.
• Analyzing data sets, identifying trends, compliance deviations, and KPIs reporting.
• Scripting and automation techniques/languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
• Managing complex data including transformation and normalization of data sources.
• Delivery within an Agile environment (e.g., Jira, Confluence, stories, sprints, backlogs).
• Developing KPIs & metrics including IT & DevSecOps.
• Creating and maintaining MI dashboards (e.g., in Power BI).
• Delivering MI presentations to Committees/forums (written & verbal).

Additional beneficial areas of understanding include:

• Information technology and Information Security tooling.
• Exchange industry and related technologies.
• Risk & Compliance Frameworks.
• Restful API, network, and configuration protocols and technologies.

Awareness of delivery in a highly regulated financial services organization (Exchange) is advantageous.

Skills Required:

• Ability to communicate metrics and IT/Cyber compliance concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical skills to identify trends, compliance gaps, and anomalies in complex data sets.
• Effective prioritization and management of timely deliverables.
• Use of appropriate data visualisation techniques for different audiences.
• Stakeholder management across a diverse, global organisation.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome the unique contributions you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression & reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. We aim for every LME employee to feel respected, supported, and encouraged to collaborate and communicate openly.