Business Resiliency & IT Risk-Security Management LEAD for JAPAN (TOP Financial Institution) Permanent recruitment

REED is urgently looking for the new Business Resiliency IT Risk-Security Management LEAD for JAPAN (senior IT Risk/Security Governance and Business Resiliency professional) with experience in financial services to join a TOP Global Finance Institution in Tokyo, Japan (Permanent).

Main responsibilities and daily tasks:

- Business resilience: Leading the business response to threats and incidents and coordinating the business response for the Japan Incident Management Team

- Engaging senior stakeholders in the country including regional governance forums and attending the Asia resiliency risk Leadership Team

- Coordinating the business resiliency testing program for critical business locations in the country and across the region, including delivery of scenario exercises and results reporting

- Providing transparency on risk and compliance through reporting and metrics

- Driving resiliency-related initiatives across the region in partnership with key stakeholders

- Partnering with Compliance to manage the regulatory response for business resiliency and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations

- Leading on industry engagement with resiliency heads at peer firms

- IT Risk Security management (Governance): Support the Regional Manager with the development and implementation of the main Strategy.

- Ensure that all relevant IT Risk Control regulatory requirements and applicable company policies are understood by the line of business clients, IT, Risk Management team as well as being implemented and monitored successfully.

- Lead and chair the Japan IT Risk committee meetings, providing sponsorship for global initiatives and providing regular updates to Japan COO’s and Technology management.

- Provide leadership, local management and supervision

- Participate in global IT Risk Security management activities, and lead specific activities as required.

- Be the company main contact to deal with local regulators, for all IT Risk aspects, and coordinate all responses to any requests, audits or inspections.

- Participate in selective Firm-wide and industry-wide forums and working groups to ensure linkage between the location and any external or internal requirements.

- Drive execution of effective IT/Regulatory compliancy strategy.

- Promote and improve awareness of security threats, laws and regulations, policies and standards.

- Provide IT regulatory interface and coordinate with compliance for the interpretation and implementation of IT Regulations.

- Reinforce Information Risk policies and Standards, and provide risk management support to businesses running in Japan.

- Maintain and track Japan risk posture.

- Manage links to other relevant firm-wide bodies (IT Governance, Audit, Operational Risk, Legal/Compliance, Resiliency Risk Management)

- Maintain relationships with key stakeholders and regulators.

- Provide expertise in current industry trends in information risk and security standards and best practices

Main requirements:

• University degree in IT, Business or any related field

• Experienced IT professional with a good background in Financial Services (Bank, Insurance or other financial institutions) with about 10+ years of working experience in the following fields IT Risk, IT Audit, IT Operation and Risk based projects

• (Ideally) Solid understanding and knowledge in Business Continuity disciplines

• Strong Practical knowledge of development lifecycles, project and program management concepts and controls

• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, but also driven and self-motivated

• MUST have worked at least in Japan – to understand the working environment

• Good at driving process improvement, Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities

• Excellent written and oral presentation skills with the ability to create and define metrics that accurately reflects the current state of a given environment.

• Solid knowledge of Industry Best Practices and the Japan IT Risk Regulatory Landscape

• Sound infrastructure knowledge of current and legacy technology including: Virtualization, Grid Computing, Cloud computing, Mainframe, Distributed Computing, Networking, Messaging, Database Management.

• Demonstrated experience with the Japanese regulator, articulate in local regulations and laws pertaining to IT Risk

• Excellent English communication skills (oral written). Japanese would be definite advantage (but not a must)

APPLY directly online or send your CV to: alex.sorlut@reedglobal.com. Call Mr. Alex Sorlut for a confidential conversation: +852 3696 5972.