Regional Security Advisor, Physical Security

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Regional Security Advisor to enhance physical security across UK sites. The role involves conducting security reviews, providing specialist support during incidents, and developing risk management strategies. Candidates should have knowledge of physical security issues, excellent relationship-building skills, and be familiar with Agile methodologies. Travel across the UK is required to attend various sites and ensure robust security measures are in place.

Qualifications

• Experience in dealing with Physical Security issues and crime types.
• Background in physical security controls.
• Ability to communicate technical issues in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed security reviews across the UK sites.
• Provide support for security incidents and liaise with authorities.
• Contribute to risk management strategies to achieve business objectives.

Skills

Knowledge of physical security

Relationship building

Understanding of Agile methodologies

Risk management frameworks

Job description

Join us as a Regional Security Advisor, Physical Security

• 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.

You’ll also be:

• 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

The skills you’ll need

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.

Additionally, you’ll need:

• 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