Global Cybersecurity Controls & Governance Lead

Decskill; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill, a long-standing IT consulting company with offices in Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, is growing and seeks a Cybersecurity Control Officer to join the team and contribute to global cybersecurity initiatives. You will support program governance, monitor delivery across regions, and manage evidence-based risk assessments, ensuring alignment with group cybersecurity requirements.

Fluent English is mandatory; French is a plus.

Qualifications

• General knowledge of cybersecurity risks, domains, and program management.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity regulatory standards, rules, and applicable norms.
• Experience with control activities, including verifying operations, challenging evidence, and ensuring procedures are followed.
• Ability to formulate, challenge, approve, and defend risk positions with clear and reasoned rationale.
• Global understanding of IT processes, assets, and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the operational execution of a global Cybersecurity Strategy across multiple regions and entities.
• Support program and project steering by monitoring delivery, milestones, risks, and dependencies, escalating alerts and key attention points.
• Manage project delivery and document project activities, including plans, status reports, risk analyses, and reasoned positions supporting program decisions.
• Prepare and coordinate governance committees, including schedules, materials, minutes, and action tracking with stakeholders at different management levels.
• Act as a dedicated point of contact for assigned scopes, conducting regular project monitoring with Project Managers and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collect, assess, challenge, and validate evidence of compliance with cybersecurity requirements across projects and BAU activities.
• Support alignment with Group stakeholders on cybersecurity requirements, including disputed or ambiguous requirements, documenting positions and tracking remediation actions through to closure.
• Define and improve operational success indicators, validate targets with program management, and propose action plans and roadmaps to achieve objectives.
• Perform deep-dive analyses into complex IT and cybersecurity operational subjects, challenging assumptions and assessing associated risks.
• Synthesize complex technical information into clear, high-level insights and provide a broader view of operational situations and risks.
• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities across program processes, including evidence collection, campaign tracking, committee reporting, minutes production, and status consolidation.
• Support the modernization of cybersecurity programs by industrializing reporting and embedding automation and AI-enabled use cases into day-to-day operations.
• Reduce manual effort and single-person dependencies through standardized inputs, templates, and reporting pipelines across territories and reporting cycles.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Program management

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

SharePoint

AI/LLM

English

Communication

Tools

Power Automate

Job description

Decskill, a long-standing IT consulting company with offices in Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, is growing and seeks a Cybersecurity Control Officer to join the team and contribute to global cybersecurity initiatives. You will support program governance, monitor delivery across regions, and manage evidence-based risk assessments, ensuring alignment with group cybersecurity requirements.

Fluent English is mandatory; French is a plus.