Physical Security VP (Financial Services)

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My client, an FS organisation based in London, are looking for a Physical Security VP to join their team. For this role you will have to be in their offices (near Canary Wharf) two times per week. For this role, Financial Services experience is a must.

Overview

About the Physical Security VP role:

My client has a requirement for a role to support the development of Enterprise-wide Continuity within the context of the evolving Enterprise Resilience regulatory requirements and industry best practices. This role will report to the ED Enterprise Continuity, helping to design and implement Physical Security Risk Management.

The candidate will be required to lead change across the organization as my client matures the resilience function. This will require creativity, ideation, industry credibility, experience, strong verbal and written influencing skills along with empathy and the ability to understand others and their positions.

A proactive, change mindset always thinking how to balance service, risk and investment in the service of the corporate strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a Physical Security Risk Management procedure for the client including associated controls, monitoring and reporting.
• Support the transformation of the current physical security capabilities to deliver industry leading solutions and enhance the overall security posture of all facilities.
• Work closely with workplace services, information security and technology infrastructure to analyse security requirements, identify gaps and drive the implementation of effective remediation.
• Provide travel security advice to the client’s travellers as required.
• Utilise open-source intelligence to monitor and react to potential threats to staff and locations.
• Maintain strong ties with local peers, government and law enforcement officials to respond to emergency issues. Represent Physical Security at internal and external forums and bring industry experience to bear on operations.
• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration between resilience and other functions (facilities management, technology, HR and Legal), ensuring security is integrated into endeavours. Raise awareness of security policies and manage policy breaches. Lead initiatives that raise awareness among employees about security policies and best practices.
• Design and deliver the client’s offices risk assessments to identify risk management strategies to limit the frequency, severity, duration, and impact of business disruptions.
• Manage physical security reviews of third parties.
• Work with workplace services and technology when new office and data centre sites are being considered.
• Deliver a programme of internal physical security improvement initiatives.
• Develop metrics, reporting and dashboards.
• Prepare inputs for relevant governance bodies.
• Support the management of the Physical Security risk and controls environment.
• Lead engagements internally and externally.
• Support the management of physical security related incidents and crises.

Qualifications and Experience

• Requires a minimum of 10 years advancement in security management. Financial services experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to drive decision making on acceptable physical security risk and drive risk mitigation.
• Project management experience, knowledge of BCM, H&S and life safety processes are required.
• Strong knowledge of the threat landscape and experience in incident management, events security and investigations. Managerial and stakeholder skills commensurate with corporate values.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate information, justify conclusions and recommendations clearly.
• Experience designing and delivering physical security risk management procedures.
• History of Operational Risk analysis, specifically in Security and Resilience domains.
• Fair understanding of FX products and services with knowledge of the required infrastructure and dependencies.
• Experience delivering projects across operations, including business processes, technology solutions, cyber remediation and third-party risk.

Beneficial Qualifications

• Physical Security
• Resilience / BCM
• Operational / Enterprise Risk Management
• Project Management (e.g. Prince / PMI / APM)

Details

• If the above role is of interest please call 0207 509 8040 or apply to this job advertisement and we will review your application accordingly.
• Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.
• About the job: Contract Type: Permanent • Focus: Information Security • Workplace Type: Hybrid • Experience Level: Senior Management • Location: London • Industry: Banking • Salary: £90,000 - £105,000 per annum