Regional Security Advisor, Physical Security

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a Regional Security Advisor to support the organization in building secure services. The role involves traveling across the UK to conduct security reviews, providing support during incidents, and ensuring effective security controls are in place. Candidates should have detailed knowledge in physical security, experience with risk management frameworks, and excellent relationship building skills. This position offers a dynamic environment with the opportunity to contribute strategically to security measures.

Qualifications

• Detailed knowledge of physical security and risk appetites.
• Experience with physical security controls and associated crime types.
• Willingness to learn risk management frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Understand and ensure robust security is incorporated into support.
• Travel across the UK to undertake detailed security reviews.
• Provide specialist security support following security incidents.
• Contribute to risk management strategies for business objectives.
• Build relationships with colleagues and third parties for long term value.

Skills

Experience in dealing with Physical Security issues

Excellent relationship building skills

Understanding of Agile methodologies

Ability to communicate technical issues clearly

Job description

Take on a new challenge and use your specialist knowledge to support the wider organisation in building and operating secure services that protect both colleagues and customers.

You’ll act as a subject matter expert in a security related field, making sure that security implications are understood in the right way, building security early into design.

You’ll be joining an exciting and fast-paced area of the bank, where you can expect great exposure both for you and your work.

What you’ll do

As a Regional Security Advisor, you'll work at a domain level to understand and ensure robust security is continuously considered and incorporated through to support. You'll be required to travel around the UK to attend sites, undertaking detailed security reviews, ensuring all physical security controls are installed and operating as designed to mitigate security threats. You'll provide specialist security support for colleagues following any impacting security incidents, liaising with local authorities and business colleagues, identifying any weaknesses in security controls and creating actions plans to resolve.

• Supporting with the identification of risks, while contributing to risk management strategies to achieve business objectives and customer outcomes
• Understanding and implementing Agile methodologies and actively contributing to finding opportunities to build security early into design
• Making sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
• Actively contributing to your centre of excellence (CoE) specialism by cross sharing learnings and best practice with CoE and community of practice colleagues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank and third parties to ensure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you'll need detailed knowledge of the physical security subject area and experience of setting risk appetites. You'll also demonstrate experience of, or a willingness to learn risk management frameworks.

• Experience in dealing with Physical Security issues, including a good understanding of associated crime types
• A background in physical security controls
• Excellent relationship building skills
• An understanding of completing benchmarking to peers and industry standards
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely, translating technical issues into business terms
• A good understanding of Agile methodologies