Director of Cyber Security

Director Cyber Security

We are considering applicants in – London/Leeds/Dublin

Style of work – Hybrid 2 days per week

Who are we?
Flutter is the world’s leading online sports betting and iGaming operator, with a market leading position in the US and across the world. Our ambition is to maximise our significant scale and our challenger mentality to change our industry for the better. Flutter operates a diverse portfolio of leading online sports betting and iGaming brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.

Responsibilities:

1. Ensuring a first-class service to Group Functions Directors in relation to briefing and advice on cyber security.
2. Taking forward the implementation of Group cyber security strategy, (Project Guardian) for Group functions driving a long-term approach to building resilience and capability.
3. Supervising the work of the 2nd line Cyber Risk, Standards and Assurance Team, whose functions include implementing technology security policies and standards for cyber security, oversight and reporting on NIST CSF.
4. Leading the Head of Flutter Group Functions Security Monitoring & Incident Response team. Ensuring that Group functions have robust and consistent processes for incident response.
5. Leading work across Group functions to educate asset owners on their responsibilities during an incident including GDPR, SEC and associated geography related local regulations.
6. Collaborate and provide thought leadership to key stakeholders such as Group legal, Group Risk, Group DPO, Group finance to ensure that the Group functions cyber capability is adding new value and assisting the Group functions teams to better manage cyber risk.
7. Communicate progress on strategic pieces of work to Flutter Group Cyber stakeholders.
8. Create and maintain the cyber risk management framework and implementation and adoption across Group functions.
9. Responsible for the update of the Group Functions Tech risk register, either directly or in collaboration with risk register owners and risk owners.
10. Critically review/challenge the reporting of cyber risks ensuring accurate risk information is presented into the Risk Committee and Board.
11. Ensure timely production and collation of risk reporting to the risk governance process and provide summary reporting and escalation of issues to direct report.
12. Form and manage effective relationships with operational and senior management within Group functions as well as Group Risk, Compliance, and Audit, flagging actual and emerging risks to relevant line management.

Key Skills:

1. Proven experience in successfully building, leading, managing, and delivering cyber security and technology advisory and assurance services to large/multinational clients.
2. Proven experience in leading, developing and managing large and diverse teams.
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences.
4. Strong risk management knowledge and expertise preferably developed in a dedicated risk management capacity (or alternatively in a compliance or audit role).
5. Self-motivated and the ability to operate independently and take the initiative, is essential.

At Flutter we’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply.