Cyber Assurance Manager

Citizens Bank; Johnston (RI); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & vision

Retirement plan

Education reimbursement

Flexible work arrangements

Paid time off

Job summary

Citizens Bank is seeking a Manager, Cyber Assurance to lead the enterprise cybersecurity continuous control testing program, overseeing strategy, governance, and execution to evaluate controls and ensure policy alignment.

You will manage a team of professionals, drive assurance reporting, metrics, and remediation, and partner with Technology, Risk, Compliance to maintain a strong cyber resilience posture, with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ to 12 years of progressive cybersecurity experience including assurance, controls testing, audit or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of people leadership in cybersecurity assurance, controls, risk, or audit.
• Experience assessing, testing, and validating cybersecurity controls across technology environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks, risk management, and security governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, governance, maturity, and continuous improvement of the Cyber Security Assurance Program aligned to enterprise cybersecurity, risk, and resilience objectives.
• Oversee planning, execution, and quality assurance of cybersecurity control testing to validate control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness.
• Define and govern critical asset identification, enhanced control requirements, and assurance activities for the organization's most critical assets.
• Establish and maintain assurance methodologies, standards, testing frameworks, documentation, and quality controls for consistency and audit readiness.
• Monitor threats, regulatory developments, and business changes to identify impacts to the control environment and assurance strategy.
• Define and report KPIs, KRIs, control effectiveness measures, testing coverage, and maturity metrics to demonstrate program performance and risk posture.
• Oversee the development of assurance reports, executive dashboards, findings, trend analysis, and recommendations for informed decision making.
• Ensure control deficiencies are documented, tracked, remediated, and validated through sustainable resolution.
• Lead and develop a high performing team through workforce planning, hiring, coaching, and career development.
• Partner with Technology, Risk, Compliance, control owners, and stakeholders to align assurance activities with enterprise priorities.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Control testing

Risk governance

Stakeholder collaboration

NIST CSF

Program governance

People management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Description

Manager, Cyber Assurance

The Manager, Cyber Assurance is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously maturing the enterprise cybersecurity continuous control testing program. This role oversees the strategy, governance, execution, and continuous improvement of assurance activities designed to evaluate the effectiveness of cybersecurity controls, identify control deficiencies and control drift, and validate alignment with enterprise security policies, standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management objectives.

The Manager leads a team of cybersecurity professionals responsible for planning and executing technical control assessments, control effectiveness reviews, assurance testing, reporting, and remediation oversight across the cybersecurity control environment. This role also provides leadership for talent acquisition, workforce development, documentation management, program governance, metrics, reporting, and stakeholder engagement to help maintain a strong and resilient cybersecurity posture.

This position is ideal for a cybersecurity assurance leader who understands how to build and deliver risk informed assurance over cybersecurity controls while continuously improving enterprise cyber resilience.

Work Arrangement

Candidates must be willing to work a hybrid schedule of 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week. Remote work is not available for this position.

Eligible hub locations include:

• Phoenix, AZ
• Charlotte, NC
• Johnston, RI
• Boston, MA
• Westwood, MA
• Marlton, NJ
• Irving, TX

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, governance, maturity, and continuous improvement of the Cyber Security Assurance Program aligned to enterprise cybersecurity, risk, and resilience objectives.
• Oversee planning, execution, and quality assurance of cybersecurity control testing to validate control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness.
• Define and govern critical asset identification, enhanced control requirements, and assurance activities for the organization's most critical assets.
• Establish and maintain assurance methodologies, standards, testing frameworks, documentation, and quality controls to ensure consistency, repeatability, and audit readiness.
• Monitor threats, emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and business changes to identify impacts to the control environment and assurance strategy.
• Define and report key performance indicators, key risk indicators, control effectiveness measures, testing coverage, and maturity metrics to demonstrate program performance and risk posture.
• Oversee the development of assurance reports, executive dashboards, findings, trend analysis, and recommendations that drive informed decision making and continuous improvement.
• Ensure control deficiencies, control drift, failures, and related risks are documented, tracked, remediated, and validated through sustainable resolution.
• Lead and develop a high performing team through workforce planning, hiring, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and career development.
• Partner with Technology, Risk, Compliance, control owners, and business stakeholders to align assurance activities with enterprise priorities and regulatory expectations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8 to 12 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, cyber risk, cybersecurity assurance, controls testing, audit, or related disciplines.
• 3 or more years of people leadership experience managing cybersecurity assurance, controls, risk, or audit professionals.
• Experience assessing, testing, and validating cybersecurity controls across technology environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks, risk management principles, and security governance practices.
• Experience developing and managing enterprise programs, governance processes, metrics, and reporting.
• Knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST standards, Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) Profile, and cybersecurity maturity frameworks.
• Experience working within large, complex, and highly regulated organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive cross functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with continuous controls monitoring, security validation technologies, and cyber control assessment methodologies.
• Experience building and maturing cybersecurity assurance or controls testing programs.

Certifications

Relevant industry certifications are preferred, including but not limited to:

• CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• CISM, Certified Information Security Manager
• CRISC, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• CISA, Certified Information Systems Auditor
• GSLC, GIAC Security Leadership Certification
• Emerging AI or cybersecurity focused certifications

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is from $175,000 to $221,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to, the budget, work location, relevant skills, and experience.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity and paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs, and more. Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory paid sick or paid time away policies of local and state jurisdictions in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit our Careers site - https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.