Vice President - Physical Security Risk Management

Job information:

• Functional title – Vice President – Physical Security Risks Management
• Department – Enterprise Resilience
• Corporate level – Vice President
• Report to – Executive Director – Enterprise Continuity
• Location - New Jersey, Metropark
• Expected full-time salary range between $140,000 - 160,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.
• Note: Disclosure as required by NJ Pay Transparency Law of the expected salary compensation range for this role.

What you will be doing:

As a systemically important financial market utility, the operational resilience posture of CLS is inextricably tied to the wellbeing of the global financial infrastructure. While CLS enjoys a strong and demonstrable history of resilience of its platforms and operating environments, the need for CLS to maintain, monitor and improve the resilience of its services, demands an increased focus and maturity in the way in which CLS considers Resilience.  One of CLS’ top prioritise is Resilience.

CLS 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 practises. 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 CLS 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 CLS 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 CLS travellers as required.
• Utilising open-source intelligence to monitor and react to potential threats to CLS staff and locations.
• Maintain strong ties with local peers, government and law enforcement officials to ensure CLS 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 CLS 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 CLS 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:

The candidate shall have the following experience:

• 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 CLS’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)
• Cyber Management (e.g. CISM)