Cybersecurity Control Officer

Decskill; Portugal; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill in Portugal is seeking a Cybersecurity Control Officer to oversee and advance our cybersecurity program across multiple regions. You will validate controls, coordinate governance, and ensure alignment with group requirements while working with stakeholders across IT, risk, and compliance.

The role emphasizes analytical thinking, reporting, and the ability to translate complex technical topics into executive summaries.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to validate controls and evidence.
• Experience bridging technical details to executives.
• Strong collaboration and organizational skills.
• Ability to work across multiple regions and groups.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of the CIB Cyber Strategy across EMEA, AMER, APAC, and CIB-dependent Group entities.
• Monitor project delivery, milestones, risks, dependencies, and elevate issues when required.
• Produce and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, risk analyses, and decision rationale.
• Prepare governance committee materials and action tracking.
• Act as the primary contact for assigned projects, coordinating with Project Managers and stakeholders.
• Define, monitor, and improve operational KPIs and success indicators.
• Standardize reporting processes across projects and regions.
• Identify automation opportunities across program activities, including evidence collection, campaign tracking, committee reporting, meeting minutes, and status consolidation.
• Reduce manual effort through templates and automated workflows.
• Leverage AI/LLM use cases to modernize the Cyber Program.

Skills

Cybersecurity concepts

Stakeholder management

Regulatory awareness

Risk assessment

Documentation

Executive communication

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people!

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

Cybersecurity Control Officer!

Responsibilities:

• Support the execution of the CIB Cyber Strategy across EMEA, AMER, APAC, and CIB-dependent Group entities.
• Monitor project delivery, milestones, risks, dependencies, and elevate issues when required.
• Produce and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, risk analyses, and decision rationale.
• Prepare, coordinate, and follow up governance committees (OpCo, Panorama), including agendas, presentation materials, meeting minutes, and action tracking.
• Act as the primary point of contact for assigned projects or business lines, coordinating with Project Managers and internal/external stakeholders.

Cyber Controls & Compliance

• Collect, assess, and challenge evidence demonstrating compliance with cybersecurity requirements.
• Validate project deliverables and maturity evidence before submission to Group reviewers.
• Support alignment with Group (CDF) on cybersecurity requirement interpretation.
• Document technical positions on disputed or ambiguous requirements and coordinate remediation activities until closure.
• Ensure operational controls and procedures are consistently followed.
• Define, monitor, and improve operational KPIs and success indicators.
• Standardize reporting processes across projects and regions.
• Develop action plans and roadmaps to improve program performance.
• Identify automation opportunities across program activities, including:
• evidence collection;
• assessment campaign tracking;
• committee reporting;
• meeting minutes production;
• status consolidation.
• Reduce manual effort through standardized templates, reporting pipelines, and automated workflows.
• Contribute to the modernization of the Cyber Program by leveraging automation and AI/LLM use cases.

Technical Analysis & Risk Assessment

• Perform deep-dive analyses of complex IT and cybersecurity operational topics.
• Challenge operational assumptions and assess cybersecurity risks.
• Translate complex technical information into concise executive-level insights.
• Maintain both detailed technical understanding and a strategic, "big-picture" perspective.

Requirements:

Behavioral Skills

• Strong collaboration and teamwork.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize and simplify complex information.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• High attention to detail, adaptability, and rigor.

Core Competencies

• Ability to understand, explain, and support organizational change.
• Critical thinking with the ability to challenge information and evidence quality.
• Ability to inspire commitment and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong networking skills across Security, Risk, IT, and Compliance functions.
• Ability to anticipate business and regulatory changes.

Technical & Business Skills

• General knowledge of cybersecurity domains, risks, and program management.
• Understanding of cybersecurity regulations, standards, and control frameworks.
• Experience validating controls, reviewing evidence, and ensuring procedural compliance.
• Ability to assess risks and provide well-reasoned recommendations.
• Broad understanding of IT processes, infrastructure, and technology.
• Ability to align cybersecurity initiatives with business objectives.

Methodologies & Tools

• Cybersecurity maturity frameworks and assessment methodologies.
• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• SharePoint administration and data management.
• Power BI for dashboarding and reporting.
• Power Automate for workflow automation.
• Hands-on experience with AI/LLM tools and practical automation use cases.

Languages

• French is a plus.

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

What you can expect from us?

• Long-term projects with national and international context.
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust.
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

Your next challenge might start here.

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.