Vice President - Physical Security Risk Management
CLS GroupAbout the role
About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
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.
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