Senior Manager: Cyber Security

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. cybersecurity risk methodology, enabling the provision of specialist information technology security expertise and delivery objectives.

**Job Description**:
Manage the Chief Security Identity & Access Management Team (50%)
- Work with Chief Security leadership to ensure alignment to group strategic objectives Maintain working relationships with key stakeholders across the technology and business functions
- Ensure suitable team structure, staffing levels and skill sets exist to meet business demand for new and existing services
- Manage all aspects of performance management for the team
- Recruit, retain and develop talent of the team
- Manage the budget for the team by complying with company policies and financial guidelines
- Actively manage the Identity & Access Management programmes to ensure teams are meeting
- demand for service and take action if project activities fall behind
- Conduct periodic staff performance appraisals

Manage projects (30%)
- Ensure delivery against group and regulatory projects that require Identity & Access Management involvement
- Monitor and manage progress of projects being run by the team in support of the security strategy
- Provide reporting of progress against project timelines and identify solutions to address challenges or escalate proactively
- Ensure delivery of Identity & Access Management services and a good user experience over the group

Manage internal relationships (5%)
- Engage with senior technology and business stakeholders to ensure integration with the group toolset run by Chief Security, understand challenges, identify solutions and escalate up the ranks when required
- Act as management point of contact for interactions with other Chief Security teams
- Handle technical and non-technical escalations from technology and business functions and address or escalate as required

Compliance Management (5%)
- Liaise with group control bodies (Internal Audit, Technology and Security Risk) ensuring best practice is adhered to at all times
- Ensure controls operated within the Identity & Access Management toolsets are executed as designed and perform testing and attestations as required
- Ensure adherence to all relevant policies, standards and procedures in accordance with best practice
- Manage risks within the area by ensuring that risks are identified and controls put in place to mitigate the risk to an acceptable level
- Facilitate audits from various parties on a regular basis and have evidence ready to prove process operation
- Define and implement remedial actions when audits identify process gaps

Standardisation & Automation (10%)
- Use technology and process standardisation to reduce the cost of manual user access administration and recertification
- Identify, design and implement automation to drive efficiency and continuous operation of Identify & Access Management services

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Services (required)
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