Physical Security VP (Financial Services)

Robert Walters; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job description

My client, an FS organisation based in London, are looking for a Physical Security VP to join their team. For this role you will have to be in their offices (near Canary Wharf) two times per week. For this role, Financial Services experience is a must.

About the Physical Security VP role:

My client has a requirement for a role to support the development of Enterprise-wide Continuity within the context of the evolving Enterprise Resilience regulatory requirements and industry best practices. This role will report to the ED Enterprise Continuity, helping to design and implement Physical Security Risk Management.

The candidate will be required to lead change across the organization as my client matures the resilience function. This will require creativity, ideation, industry credibility, experience, strong verbal and written influencing skills along with empathy and the ability to understand others and their positions.

A proactive, change mindset always thinking how to balance service, risk and investment in the service of the corporate strategy.

The candidate will:

• Design and implement a Physical Security Risk Management procedure for my client including associated controls, monitoring and reporting;
• Support the transformation of the current physical security capabilities to deliver industry leading solutions and enhance the overall security posture of all facilities.
• Work closely with workplace services, information security and technology infrastructure to analyse security requirements, identify gaps and drive the implementation of effective remediation.
• The provision of travel security advice to my client's travellers as required.
• Utilising open-source intelligence to monitor and react to potential threats to my client's staff and locations.
• Maintain strong ties with local peers, government and law enforcement officials to ensure my client can appropriately respond to emergency issues. Represent Physical Security at internal and external forums, maintain a diverse network of industry peers and bring their experience to bear on my client's operations.
• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration between resilience and other functions, including facilities management, technology, HR and Legal, ensuring that security is integrated into endeavours. Raise awareness of security policies and manage policy breaches. Lead on initiatives that raise awareness among employees about security policies, best practice, and the critical role they play in maintaining safety.
• Design and deliver the my client's offices risk assessment to identify appropriate risk management strategies to limit the frequency, severity, duration, and impact of business disruptions.
• Manage the physical security reviews of third parties.
• Work with workplace services and technology when new office and data centres sites are being considered.
• Delivering a programme of internal physical security improvement initiatives.
• Development of metrics, reporting and dashboards.
• Prepare inputs for relevant governance bodies.
• Support the management of the Physical Security risk and controls environment.
• Lead engagements internally and externally.
• Support the management of physical security related incidents and crisis.

What we're looking for:

• Requires a minimum of 10 years advancement in security management. Financial services experiences strongly preferred.
• Ability to drive decision making on acceptable physical security risk and drive risk mitigation.
• Project management experience, knowledge of BCM, H&S and life safety processes are required.
• A strong knowledge of the threat landscape and experience working in incident management, events security and investigations. Managerial and stakeholder skills commensurate with my client's values and corporate ethos.
• Must possess strong effective communication skills both written and verbal that demonstrates critical thinking, sound judgement and the ability to convey information, justify conclusions and recommendations in a clear, coherent and accurate manner.
• Experience designing and delivering physical security risk management procedures.
• A history of Operational Risk analysis, specifically in the Security and Resilience domains.
• Fair understanding of FX products and services with knowledge of the required infrastructure and dependencies.
• Experience in the delivery of projects providing solutions across the breadth of a company's operations; business process, technology solutions, cyber remediation, third party risk etc.

Professional qualifications / certifications

Recognized qualifications in the following areas will be beneficial:

• Physical Security
• Financial regulation
• Resilience / BCM
• Operational / Enterprise Risk Management
• Project Management (e.g Prince / PMI / APM)

If the above role is of interest please do call me on 0207 509 8040 or apply to this job advertisement and I will review your application accordingly.

About the job

Contract Type: FULL_TIME

Specialism: Information Technology

Focus: Information Security

Industry: Banking

Salary: £90,000 - £105,000 per annum

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Senior Management

Location: London

Job Reference: 0B4Q1D-9969804A

Date posted: 5 March 2025

Consultant: Darius Goodarzi