Manager: Cyber Assurance

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ: 138394

Talent Acquisition Consultant: Lerato Sithole

Location: Johannesburg 

Closing Date: 10 March 2025

Job Family

Risk, Audit and Compliance

Career Stream

Auditing

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self Professional

Job Purpose

• To perform assurance activities in the form of control reviews and risk assessments on various cyber elements in the bank,
• Collaborate with other functions in the bank to execute on the cyber resilience programme.

Job Responsibilities

• Be a cyber security subject matter expert for the bank by providing expert advice on all aspects of cyber security risk management.
• Build and maintain professional relationships by information sharing and professional networking within the bank.
• Build and maintain internal stakeholder relationships through collaboration with stakeholders and regular communication via various media.
• Assist with coordinating group wide cyber-resilience risk and control assessments in line with the group's risk management frameworks.
• Analyse data to form a repeatable, defendable opinion. 
• Identify, develop and enhance policies, standards, procedures and guidelines and drive implementation and compliance throughout the group.
• Maintain a view of current cyber-resilience threats and trends globally by conducting research.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by ensuring delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.

Essential Qualification- NQF Level

• Matric
• Relevant bachelor’s degree

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
   

Minimum Experience Level

• 3 years of audit/risk management experience specific to cyber and/or information security.
   

Type of Exposure

• The candidate should have experience in cyber risk management as well as the testing of cyber controls.  
• Exposure to cyber risk frameworks. One or more of the following (NIST cyber framework / NIST standard, ISF, ISO27001/2, FFIEC)
• Passion for Cyber
• Eager to learn
• Ability to work with people outside of the direct team in order to achieve objectives
• Ability to create and present reports to various stakeholders

Technical/ Professional Knowledge

• Administrative procedures and systems 
• Banking knowledge 
• Banking procedures 
• Data analysis 
• Governance, Risk and Controls 
• Microsoft Office 
• Principles of project management 
• Relevant regulatory knowledge 
• Relevant software and systems knowledge 
• Business writing skills 
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge 
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC) 
• Information Security terms and definitions 
• Basic computer concepts 
• Relevant Operating System 
• Information Security policies and procedures 
• Vendor Management Principles 

Behavioural Competencies

• Applied Learning 
• Analytical skills
• Communication 
• Collaborating 
• Customer Focus 
• Initiating Action 
• Managing Work 
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills 

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566