Americas Head of IT & Global Head of Identity and Access Management, NY

About Us
 

Rothschild & Co is a leading global financial services group with seven generations of family control and a history of over 200 years at the centre of the world's financial markets.

Our expertise, intellectual capital and global network enable us to provide a distinct perspective that makes a meaningful difference to our clients, communities and planet.

We have 4,200 talented specialists on the ground in over 40 countries around the world, enabling us to deliver a unique global perspective across four market-leading business divisions – Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management and Five Arrows.

As a family-controlled business built on relationships, we place a huge emphasis on our people and finding the right colleagues to take our business forward.

Rothschild & Co is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment where diversity and different perspectives are valued. We are focused on the attraction and recruitment, development and retention and progression of high calibre talent to ensure we and our clients benefit from the value of difference.

Rothschild & Co – IT Division

The Rothschild & Co IT Division is a single global function of approximately 160 professionals. Through key outsourcing partnerships, the division has progressively standardized the delivery of IT services to the group.

The IT Division is comprised of two main functions - Infrastructure and Business Applications. The Infrastructure function delivers the transversal IT services that Business Applications are built upon as well as delivering core IT functions directly to users. Services delivered by the Infrastructure teams include datacenter and hosting, networks and communications, end user compute, service desk and onsite support and security. Additionally, these technical service towers are supported by services delivered by IT finance, project management office, vendor management and architecture functions.

Role Overview

This role has two main responsibilities.

• The oversight and management of IT matters and staff in the Americas region whose activities and responsibilities are distributed across existing IT service towers.
• The leadership and management of the Global Identity and Access Management service tower.

In the capacity of Americas Head of IT; you will lead and develop a high performing team that handles all IT matters across the region. You will collaborate with the global CIO, CTO and all group IT tower leads to ensure a consistent global approach. You will have regional responsibility for all aspects of IT services. This means that you need broad technical experience to ensure the necessary service interdependencies are met. This requires a good understanding of IT service management concepts and processes needed to run a mature enterprise IT function.

In the capacity of Head of Identity and Access Management; you will be responsible for defining and establishing this new service tower and will provide the customer side management of the outsourcer’s team and oversee its function and performance. You will have excellent knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Entra) products. You will be familiar with security concepts and technologies in the wider Identity and Access management space (Logical Access Controls, PAM, RBAC, Authentication solutions, PKI concepts, etc.) as well as have experience leading a team responsible for its design, operations and management in the same areas.

In both capacities you will form part of the senior management team and will be expected to articulate the needs for your region and for the Identity and Access Management capability that you will lead. In addition, you will assist the CIO Office to produce local and global budgets. The role requires that you lead IT service providers to manage technical and non-technical escalations as well contractual considerations. Promoting the services provided by Group IT with the business will be a key success criteria for the successful candidate.

You must be a strong leader and excellent communicator, comfortable discussing complex technical topics as well as conveying requirements for your team. You will prepare and deliver high quality and concise reports and summaries for IT management and the business.

The ideal candidate for this role will have demonstrable experience in leading an IT function that is delivered by both internal teams and outsourced partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, support and management for all local IT teams.
• Provide the customer side management for the outsourcer running local services and Identity and Access Management.
• Contribute technical direction for both strategic and tactical activi