Assistant Vice President – IT Security Governance & Risk Management

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced IT Security Governance & Risk Management leader to support enterprise‑wide remediation and compliance initiatives across Alternatives Investment Services (AIS) and Insurance technology platforms.

At the AVP level, this role acts as a hands‑on execution lead and escalation point, partnering with application owners, production support, infrastructure teams, and senior leadership to ensure timely remediation of identity, access, vulnerability, and application lifecycle risks in a highly regulated environment.

The role requires strong execution discipline, governance maturity, and the ability to drive outcomes across a large, complex application portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Identity & Access Risk Management

• Lead remediation of aged passwords and non‑human/service accounts across a large portfolio of AIS and Insurance applications.
• Partner with application and production support teams to drive corrective actions including password rotation, account disablement, or decommissioning.
• Track remediation activity through enterprise change management tools and ensure committed actions are executed on schedule.
• Validate remediation outcomes using identity and access platforms and ensure evidence is audit‑ready.
• Maintain centralized tracking, metrics, and reporting for non‑compliant accounts.
• Escalate repeated non‑compliance and missed timelines to senior management, clearly articulating risk and impact.

Vulnerability & Patch Governance

• Review weekly vulnerability reports and validate trends, new findings, and remediation progress.
• Identify carried‑over and at‑risk vulnerabilities and engage application teams to ensure timely resolution.
• Maintain high‑quality data sets and develop management views to support leadership decision‑making.
• Produce weekly executive‑level reporting for AIS and Insurance portfolios, including risks, trends, and remediation timelines.
• Coordinate with infrastructure and security teams to resolve issues and remove blockers.

Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA) Compliance

• Track and govern MFA implementation across AIS and Insurance applications.
• Coordinate with application teams to manage timelines, dependencies, and attestations.
• Provide clear, concise weekly status reporting to senior leadership.
• Highlight risks and escalate applications not meeting agreed‑upon milestones.

Policy Violations & Control Exceptions

• Review periodic policy violation reports related to application security controls.
• Engage application owners to obtain remediation plans and progress updates.
• Provide guidance on remediation of common violations and control gaps.
• Escalate non‑responsive or non‑compliant applications to senior leadership.

Application Risk Remediation

• Drive remediation of interactive and legacy account risks in collaboration with application owners and support teams.
• Support teams with remediation approaches to align accounts with non‑interactive access standards.
• Maintain status tracking and escalate stalled remediation activity where required.

Application Lifecycle Risk & Resilience

• Ensure applications using end‑of‑life or unsupported components are properly documented in enterprise lifecycle risk repositories.
• Validate remediation timelines and support application teams with required updates.
• Escalate applications that fail to maintain accurate lifecycle risk data.

Financial & Delivery Transparency

• Produce and maintain governance and status reporting for key technology initiatives within AIS and Insurance.
• Partner with delivery teams to ensure accomplishments, upcoming activities, and risks are accurately captured and communicated.
• Support audit and regulatory inquiries through consistent, high‑quality reporting.

Required Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience in IT risk management, security governance, identity and access management, or regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to lead remediation activities across large, complex application portfolios.
• Strong experience producing executive‑level reporting and communicating technical risk to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to drive accountability, follow‑through, and escalation in matrixed environments.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder‑management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within financial services, insurance, or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity wi