Manager - Information Security

Birla Carbon; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aditya Birla Capital Limited in India is seeking a Manager - Information Security to lead AI security governance and risk management across business units. The role sits in a federated security model, coordinating with LOB CISOs, tech teams, and central security functions to balance innovation with regulatory and trust requirements.

You will translate AI security principles into operating controls, review gates, and implementation patterns, while identifying AI use-cases to improve monitoring,

Responsibilities

• The role operates in a federated security model, where LOB CISOs, business technology teams, digital teams, and central security functions must align on standards without compromising business agility.
• Digital and AI adoption is accelerating across customer journeys, internal operations, analytics, automation, and partner ecosystems, requiring a dedicated central view of digital and AI security risk.
• The role must convert the Group’s AI security principles and framework into usable operating controls, review mechanisms, approval guardrails, and implementation patterns across diverse businesses.
• The role must also help the cyber security function itself identify and leverage appropriate AI use-cases to improve internal capabilities such as monitoring, triage, analysis, reporting, control assurance, and risk visibility.
• The job requires balancing innovation and speed with regulatory expectations, customer trust, data protection obligations, resilience requirements, and reputational risk.
• The role sits at the intersection of digital product teams, engineering, cloud, data/AI teams, LOB CISOs, GRC, VAPT, Red Team, Security Architecture, and cyber operations teams, and therefore needs strong influencing skills and role clarity.
• Emerging AI use cases, external AI dependencies, public generative AI platforms, copilots, agents, and embedded AI features create new risks related to data leakage, model misuse, prompt injection, insecure integrations, overreliance, and governance gaps.
• The role is expected to provide clear guidance and subject matter leadership without duplicating the execution responsibilities of specialist control functions such as VAPT, Red Teaming, GRC, or Architecture.
• The role must maintain an outside-in view of attacker behavior, industry practices, financial services expectations, AI assurance approaches, and practical opportunities to use AI securely within cyber security operations and governance.

Job description

At the Aditya Birla Group, our Corporate Vision is aligned and intricately woven with our People Vision.

Designation : NA

Location : India Maharashtra G-Corp Tech Park, Thane

Job Description:

Job Description – Manager - Information security

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ABC Company Info:

Aditya Birla Capital Limited ("ABCL") is the holding company for the financial services businesses of the Aditya Birla Group. With subsidiaries/JVs that have a strong presence across Protecting, Investing and Financing solutions, ABCL is a financial solutions group that caters to the diverse needs of its customers across their life cycle. Powered by more than 38,000 employees, the businesses of ABCL have a nationwide reach with over 1300 branches, more than 2,00,000 agents/channel partners and various bank partners.

What makes an ideal ABC Citizen?

At ABC, we are constantly on the lookout for individuals who resonate with our 5 core values of Speed, Passion, Integrity, Seamlessness and commitment and live them every day, while also understanding our vision. We believe in building leaders who thrive on challenges, take the onus of creating and sustaining strong teams, and forms strong networks as a result of effective relationship-building.

Key Responsibilities

• The role operates in a federated security model, where LOB CISOs, business technology teams, digital teams, and central security functions must align on standards without compromising business agility.
• Digital and AI adoption is accelerating across customer journeys, internal operations, analytics, automation, and partner ecosystems, requiring a dedicated central view of digital and AI security risk.
• The role must convert the Group’s AI security principles and framework into usable operating controls, review mechanisms, approval guardrails, and implementation patterns across diverse businesses.
• The role must also help the cyber security function itself identify and leverage appropriate AI use-cases to improve internal capabilities such as monitoring, triage, analysis, reporting, control assurance, and risk visibility.
• The job requires balancing innovation and speed with regulatory expectations, customer trust, data protection obligations, resilience requirements, and reputational risk.
• The role sits at the intersection of digital product teams, engineering, cloud, data/AI teams, LOB CISOs, GRC, VAPT, Red Team, Security Architecture, and cyber operations teams, and therefore needs strong influencing skills and role clarity.
• Emerging AI use cases, external AI dependencies, public generative AI platforms, copilots, agents, and embedded AI features create new risks related to data leakage, model misuse, prompt injection, insecure integrations, overreliance, and governance gaps.
• The role is expected to provide clear guidance and subject matter leadership without duplicating the execution responsibilities of specialist control functions such as VAPT, Red Teaming, GRC, or Architecture.
• The role must maintain an outside-in view of attacker behavior, industry practices, financial services expectations, AI assurance approaches, and practical opportunities to use AI securely within cyber security operations and governance.

Aditya Birla Capital is committed to provide equal opportunity to all in employment and prohibits discrimination or harassment in any form on the basis of race, colour, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is embedded in our recruitment policies based on our business needs and candidates meeting the eligibility criteria such as qualification, skills and experience.