Assistant Vice President, IT Security Risk Specialist

About CLS

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values – Protect, Improve, Grow – underpin everything that we do at CLS and define and shape a supportive and inclusive working environment in which everyone is encouraged to be open and forward-thinking.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist the SRM team with full scope of services such as but not limited to control lifecycles and risk assessments.
• Create metrics to help showcase important KPIs and KRIs to stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver security briefings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Gather and synthesize data and cybersecurity artifacts to support SRM deliverables.
• Support CLS Security’s response to regulatory deliverables, including examinations, continuous monitoring sessions, and responses to regulatory correspondence.
• Liaise as needed with CLS’ Regulatory Affairs division; translate relevant directives, guidance, and rules into actionable data for consumption by the senior stakeholders.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Support SRM in the execution of the CLS Security Strategy in alignment with corporate strategic pillars, fundamental security principles, and business requirements.
• Translate SRM vision into professional, publication-ready memoranda and presentation material for the office of the CISO.
• Prepare and deliver security briefings for consumption by CLS Security, the CISO, the Executive Management Committee, and the Board.
• Use functional expertise in security to oversee and deliver regular security training, discussions, and presentations to CLS staff.
• Execute additional SRM objectives as necessary.
• Assist with security focused training and awareness campaigns across the organization.
  
  

Knowledge, skills and abilities / competencies required for successful job performance:

• Strong work ethic with focus on meeting deadlines and objectives
• Ability to manage company wide - strategic projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with users, team members, and management
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point
• Bachelor's degree related to scope of work preferred.
  
  

Confidential Information 1

Our Commitment To Employees

At CLS, we celebrate diversity and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Affinity Groups (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about DE&I.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.