Chief Information Security Officer – Managing Director

Chief Information Security Officer – Managing Director

Company: State Street

State Street provides investment servicing, investment management, investment research, and trading services to institutional investors worldwide.

State Street seeks to recruit a Chief Information Security Officer – Managing Director to improve the overall protection of State Street’s EMEA customers and partners from the evolving landscape of threat actors.

The EMEA CISO candidate must have experience driving security through leadership down through the organization on a large scale. This candidate should be a proven global cyber security leader who has experience in delivering on strategic outcomes with business operational quality and a focus on business needs. The candidate should have experience scaling security solutions to ensure sustainability and endurance throughout constant change. This leader will be part of a team responsible for ensuring the security of the business and functional teams in line with company and security policy, standards, and guidelines. The position will report to the SVP, Global Cyber GRC & GTS Tech Risk Mgmt Head.

This role will be based in the EMEA region for State Street.

What you will be responsible for:

• Function at the Executive Leadership level for the EMEA region.
• Contribute to the development and progression of the Business’ exercise of connecting security into their strategic and tactical plans.
• Champion the Information Security mandate from the Global CISO, guiding stakeholders to embed information risk management practices.
• Present to multiple audiences including external customers and clients.
• Define critical measurements through developed KPIs reporting to the GRC team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as key Security contact for the EMEA region leadership team.
• Collaborate with Global Cyber Security and assigned business partner teams to ensure alignment with security policies.
• Work across the BISO Organization to develop shared success solutions.
• Motivate and manage a team of information security staff.
• Cultivate and build collaborative working relationships with enterprise stakeholders.
• Weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
• Drive change through effective influence.
• Perform Ad-Hoc security awareness to ensure awareness of current threats.
• Provide security leadership presence at risk committees.
• Manage application risk and remediation prioritization.
• Review and present Phishing statistics with educational sessions.
• Communicate complex issues to diverse audiences.
• Display working knowledge of information policy formulation and management.
• Communicate security requirements laterally and upwards.
• Create visibility through effective security and risk metrics.
• Build budget in conjunction with needs for security implementation.
• Execute implementation of Global Cyber Security strategies.
• Participate in key Risk decision committees.
• Create and deliver effective presentations.
• Provide regular status updates to the SVP, GRC.
• Build and nurture positive working relationships with clients.
• Work cross-functionally to support a collaborative team environment.
• Mentor and train team members on security processes.
• Provide business understanding of technical problems.

Desired Outcomes:

• KPI development demonstrating success within the Region’s security program.
• Adherence to all regulatory compliance mandates.
• Security transformation of Business Unit staff.
• Promotion of a collaborative team atmosphere.

Key Relationships:

• ISO Strategy and Transformation Lead
• Information Security Officers
• EMEA Business and Functional Leaders
• SVP, Cyber Fusion Center
• SVP, Cyber Architecture & Security Engineering
• SVP, Cyber Governance & GTS Tech Risk Mgmt Head
• EVP, Head of IT EMEA
• Cyber Transformation Office
• Collaboration with Compliance, Risk Management, Corporate Audit

Education & Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in information security or related field.
• Strong experience within the Financial Services industry.
• Modern technical understanding and experience in large-scale innovation.
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and budgeting.
• Depth with modern technology stacks – data science, machine learning, cloud.
• Project Management experience leading technical teams.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment.