Senior Director, Information Security (Cyber GRC Controls Risk Management) - Information Security Manager, Cyber GRC Controls Risk Management

Senior Director, Information Security (Cyber GRC Controls Risk Management)

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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Director, Information Security (Cyber GRC Controls Risk Management) to join our CyberSecurity team. This role is located in New York City.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Perform cyber and technology risk oversight across control domains, including identification of emerging, material, and systemic risk themes.
• Assess control effectiveness and risk exposure through review of control performance, deficiencies, monitoring outputs, and remediation status.
• Govern issue management processes from identification through closure, including challenge, escalation, validation, and aging oversight.
• Produce aggregated risk views, thematic analysis, KRI reporting, and governance materials for senior management and oversight forums.
• Monitor trends in control deficiencies, recurring issues, exception aging, unresolved exposures, and out-of-tolerance conditions.
• Partner with cyber continuous monitoring teams to leverage objective signals and automated evidence across identity, cloud, endpoint, network, secure configuration, and vulnerability domains.
• Support governance processes for high-priority remediation actions and critical control improvements.
• Provide challenge to Platforms and control owners on remediation quality, target dates, root causes, and residual risk positions.
• Help establish trigger-based governance routines driven by material risk movement, control drift, concentration risk, resilience gaps, and dependency concerns.
• Support coordination of issues arising from audits, incidents, self-identification, regulatory reviews, and control failures.
• Contribute to cross-Platform visibility into dependency risk, concentration exposure, important services, and resilience readiness.
• Support management reporting that is concise, decision-useful, and aligned to enterprise governance expectations.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred. 15+ years of experience in information security or related technology experience required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus..
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Information Security, Technology, or related field.
• Significant experience in cyber risk management, control oversight, issue management, operational risk, or technology controls.
• Strong understanding of cyber control monitoring, issue remediation governance, and risk reporting practices.
• Experience analyzing control health, deficiencies, KRIs, exceptions, and remediation performance.
• Ability to independently challenge stakeholders and synthesize risk insights for management audiences.
• Strong analytical, governance, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills with experience preparing senior-level reporting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a large, global, regulated financial services environment.
• Familiarity with continuous control monitoring and automated evidence models.
• Understanding of operational resilience, third-party technology risk, and concentration risk.
• Knowledge of audit and regulatory response coordination.
• Relevant certifications such as CRISC, CISM, CISSP, CGEIT, or similar.

Base Salary Min: 136500

Base Salary Max: 350000