IT, Information Security Group, Cyber Security Assurance Analyst, GG10

Job Summary

• We are looking for Cyber Security Assurance Analyst for the leading life insurance company based in Tokyo and also remotely work with offshore teams.
• You will be expected to play a critical role of the Information Security Group to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s and customer’s information.
• Expect to promote our Global Information Security framework and relevant programs by working closely with other IT teams and related businesses.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on work for the daily activities and also propose solutions to the improvement initiatives.
• Communicate and liaise proactively work with local and global counterparts for planning and executing various Information Security activities.
• Immediate focuses include:
• Drive application security program which is one of the high focused KPIs of the IT department, such as governance of application vulnerability testing and ensuring a required remediation plan to be made and executed by a responsible application team.
• Act as a contact point for our application teams and external testing partners to manage application vulnerabilities.
• Lead the application risk assessment and Non-Financial Risk Assessment for Japan IT aligned with the global process.
• Promote “shift left” of implementing security solutions at an early stage of application life cycle which includes governance of thread analysis to be performed and in charge of planning application security awareness.
• Conduct and support broader IT governance agendas which include promoting and supporting the registration of IT risks/issues and monitoring remediation progress of IT issue actions.
• Lead drafting and changing policies, procedures and manuals related to IT risks and security areas.

Requirements (Experience, Skills, Education)

• Minimum 3 years of relevant hands-on experience in Information Technology
• Experience or strong interest in Information Security related field
• Business level English and advanced level Japanese
• Ability to prepare accurate reports for all levels of staff in an appropriate clear language and provide oral presentation
• Willing to learn new IT technologies and Information Security trend

Preferable

• Experience or interest in financial industry particularly life insurance
• Familiar with industry standards (NIST CSF, PCI DSS, FISC)