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KPMG Netherlands

Audits accounts and advises organizations

IT Vendor Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
€4.2k - €6.8k/mo
Senior
Bachelor's
Amstelveen, Netherlands
Hybrid
CybersecuritySecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance

About the job

Requirements
  • Five years of demonstrable work experience performing, assessing, and substantiating risk analyses of external parties, including interpreting security documentation such as ISO certifications, SOC reports, penetration test results, or due diligence questionnaires.
  • Experience drafting, reviewing, and strengthening contractual security provisions, such as data processing agreements, service-level agreements, processing agreements, and security appendices, and aligning them with the risk profile of the collaboration.
  • Experience coordinating customer audits and information requests by obtaining information from IT, Legal, Procurement, Risk Management, and other teams and ensuring answers are complete, timely, and demonstrably accurate.
  • Strong communication skills in both Dutch and English, with the ability to explain complex subject matter in clear and persuasive language to colleagues in other disciplines.
  • Good understanding of all relevant components of third-party risk management, including onboarding, risk classification, security requirements, monitoring, annual reviews, exit management, and documentation requirements.
  • A completed relevant higher professional or university education, such as Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Information Security Management, or a comparable field.
  • Affinity with generative AI and motivation to actively apply this technology in daily work.
Responsibilities
  • Monitor, assess, and where necessary strengthen risk analyses of external parties and applications performed by operational security teams.
  • Ensure the analyses are sufficiently thorough and that appropriate security requirements are included and secured in contracts, service-level agreements, and other binding documentation.
  • Coordinate customer information requests and audits by collecting required information, liaising with subject-matter experts, and ensuring responses are accurate, complete, and persuasive.
  • Review customer security requirements before contracts are signed and advise on their feasibility, acceptance, and possible mitigations.
  • Ensure the organization accepts only customer obligations that are practically executable.
  • Coordinate colleagues across departments, translate complex issues into clear actions, motivate colleagues, build support, and help ensure security risks are demonstrably controlled.

About the company

KPMG Netherlands audits financial statements and advises businesses, public bodies and nonprofit organizations on how they operate and change. Its assurance work examines financial and other reported information, while its advisory teams work on strategy, transactions, risk, technology and sustainability. Clients buy professional services that combine specialist analysis with support for decisions, systems and organizational change. The Dutch audit and advisory practice works with local and international clients and draws on the broader KPMG network's expertise. Its Dutch roots date to an Amsterdam accounting practice opened in 1917, and it is headquartered in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Amstelveen, Netherlands

Founded

1917

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