Job Description

Appealing Points:

• Opportunity to Lead in a Global Environment  Work closely with both local and global stakeholders, leveraging your leadership to drive security strategy across regions.
• High Impact Role Overseeing Core Security Functions  Take ownership of governance, risk, compliance, and third-party security management with significant organizational influence.
• Emphasis on Strategic Thinking and Continuous Improvement  Be recognized for driving innovation and enhancements in security frameworks, controls, and policies.

Annual salary: 8 Million and above

Job Responsibilities:

• Governance:  Develop and implement information security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure the organization's security posture aligns with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Risk Management:  Identify, assess, and manage information security risks, ensuring that appropriate controls are in place to mitigate risks and protect the organization's information assets.
• Compliance:  Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, including conducting regular audits and assessments to identify and address any gaps in the organization's security posture.
• Control:  Oversee the implementation and maintenance of security controls to protect the organization's information systems and data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
• Third Party Risk Management:  Manage risks associated with third-party vendors and partners, ensuring that they adhere to the organization's security policies and standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to continuously improve the organization's information security governance, risk management, and control processes, ensuring that security measures are up-to-date and effective.
• Stakeholder Management:  Work closely with various departments and stakeholders, both locally and globally, to ensure alignment and collaboration on information security initiatives.

Job Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred
• At least 10 years of experience in cyber security, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of cyber security frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Experience with governance, risk management, compliance, and control functions.
• Proven experience in people management, continuous improvement, and automation of key controls.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Experience working in a global environment and managing stakeholders locally and across the globe.

Preferred Experience:

• Proficiency in tools like project management software, and data visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI).
• Familiarity with regulatory / industry standards (NIST CSF, PCI DSS, FISC)
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CISA are highly desirable.

Language:  Fluency in both English and Japanese, with excellent proficiency in both languages.

Skills and Competencies:

Competencies 

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to identify long-term trends and opportunities.
• Collaboration Champion: Strong interpersonal skills to foster an inclusive, collaborative culture.
• Results-Oriented: Delivers measurable outcomes through innovation and continuous improvement.
• Change Leadership: Comfortable leading in dynamic environments with evolving priorities.
• People Management: Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teams

Company Description 

Our Client has operations in more than 40 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are ranked #43 on the Fortune 500 list for 2018.With over 150 years of experience, the companies offer life, accident and health insurance, retirement, andsavings products through agents, third-party distributors such as banks and brokers, and direct marketing channels. Our name is recognized and trusted by approximately 100 million customers worldwide and we serve more than 90 of the top 100 FORTUNE 500 companies in the United States.

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