Senior Director, Nation State Cyber Risk Management

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system, we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities, and people everywhere. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Director, Nation State Cyber Risk Management to join our Technology Risk Management team. This executive role is responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating cyber risks posed by advanced persistent threats (APTs) and hostile nation states, ensuring these risks are integrated into the firm’s broader enterprise risk management (ERM) framework. The position reports to the Chief Technology Risk Officer and requires cross-functional collaboration with technology, legal, compliance, and business units.

This exciting role entails one thing: systematically assessing BNY’s technologies, controls, procedures, and structures for readiness to defeat threats from nation state cyber actors. Activities include, but would not be limited to:

• Working closely with our lines of business to identify objectives and potential targets of nation state actors.
• Assessing how and with what capabilities a nation state actor might deploy against BNY to achieve those objectives.
• Rigorously assessing and coming to a risk determination on the ability of BNY to detect or prevent those capabilities.
• Coming to an aggregated reasoned viewpoint on our overall preparedness for the threats to each of our lines of business.
• Making a determination of potential courses of action to mitigate the threats, with an analysis of the pros and cons in terms of risk reduction.
• Communicating those findings to BNY Executive Management and assisting in the risk decisioning process.
• Providing oversight, review and challenge of remediation efforts.

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

• At least 10 years of offensive cyber expertise at the National Security Agency (ideally in the TAO / CNO mission area) or the Central Intelligence Agency (ideally in the DDI / COG mission area).
• Alternatively, experience with the British Secret Intelligence Service, the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), or equivalent services from the Five Eyes community of nations in the cyber mission will also be considered.
• Deep expertise in nation state and APT threat landscape, including intelligence analysis and incident response.
• Relentless, energetic curiosity and a passion for attacking and solving complex technical problems.
• Ability to clearly articulate nature and solution to technical problems to non-technical senior leadership.
• Financial services experience is welcome, but not critical.
• Candidates with active security clearances at the TS or TS/SCI level are welcome, but an active clearance is not required.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024 14.
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024 15.
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024 16.
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024 17.
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024 18.
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024 19.
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023 20.

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $275,000 and $300,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $136,500 and $300,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.
This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.