Harris Global are currently on the lookout for a Head of Information Security to join our client, a start-up in the banking industry, on an initial 6 month contract. The successful candidate will have prior experience working as a Head of/CISO within Financial Services previously and will have come from a Security Engineering background.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to help build a new bank and embed your skills and expertise in to an ever growing organisation.

Responsibilities will include:

• Develop and lead security initiatives and vision to align business objectives
• Lead security strategy for business transition, risk appetite and develop IT risk landscape
• Continuous improvement/develop IT security standards, architectures and processes
• Evaluation of IT concepts (hardware/software) for IT security aspects
• Management and collaboration of projects and supporting group across IT security matters
• Manage service providers and 3rd parties security landscapes
• Coordination/Management of IT security incidents, supplier liaison
• Act as the organisations subject matter expert in relation to information/cyber security and privacy risk management matters and undertake a comprehensive, in-depth review of Information/cyber security and privacy risk analysis

Candidates will possess:

• Strong Information and Cyber Security expertise
• Candidates must have worked in a Head of/CISO level role
• Strong cloud experience (preferably AWS)
• Minimum 10-15 years Security experience
• Candidates will have a technical understanding but remain primarily hands off
• Must have Financial Services experience (banking is highly advantageous)
• Strong Application Security knowledge
• Strong knowledge of Data Privacy and GDPR
• ISO27001
• CISSP/CISM/CCSP
• Excellent get it done attitude

Although preferably hybrid with travel to the Surrey office, this role can also be fully remote.