Security Assessment Manager - Project Coordinator

Role summary

To support operational and risk management, this role will be responsible for the intake and coordination of security assessment reviews on solutions and applications for functions and Member Firms. The Security Assessment Manager will serve as the first contact for our clients and manage the solution review lifecycle within the Global Information Security Group (GISG). 

Key accountabilities

% of time

Accountability

15

Serve as the first contact at intake for our customer experience, assisting the customer team with submitting initial intake data and artifacts to ensure they contain the required information for a thorough review. Coordinating with other groups as needed, so the review can begin.                    

20

Orchestrate intake and deliverables, ensure the security assessment team have necessary testing coordinated and scheduled to conduct the assessment. Manages follows-up on the plan of actions on a regular schedule and collects evidence of remediation.

20

Organize, manage task and schedules through constant communication throughout the review lifecycle, lead status meetings, maintain detail meeting minutes.

15

Provide timely, proactive guidance based on the areas of the review. This includes awareness of risks and challenges to the assessment, how to remediate and keep the review moving forward. Ensure security assessment teams are not overloaded when queue plan changes.

15

Coordinate the completion of the security assessment services to obtain customer leadership risk acceptance of findings, remediations and with security leadership for final review and approval.

15

Issue and publish final security assessment. This includes updates to the assessment tracker and repository with appropriate documents and data. Manage product expiration dates and follow up to renew. 

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Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Logical, organizational, and client engagement skills.
• Able to handle pressure, complexity and propose resolutions for scenarios and issues that may arise during security assessments.
• Able to collaborate with customer teams, technical security teams, management, partners, and stakeholders from different cultures and backgrounds.
• Proficient with Excel, MS Office suite, MS collaboration tools, Visio, BI tools.
• PMP preferred.

Qualifications

• Forward thinking and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new information.
• Direct numerous complex projects throughout lifecycle, while managing competing priorities, organizing, and handling multiple processes and projects at once, with an attention to detail.
• Manage deadlines, feedback, workflows, tools, and escalations in a timely manner.
• Ability to offer optimization recommendations for process improvement.
• Confident, strategic, forward thinking, self-starter, adaptable.

Experience/Knowledge

• Minimum of five years or more of experience in demand and capacity management, security assessment and reporting, and project management.
• Proficiency in customer service management and/or operational/stakeholder management.
• Accomplished in communicating and interacting with others and establishing and keeping relationships.
• Previous occupation in a high-performance culture.