Barclays

Firewall Security Consultant

Job posted: Oct 07, 2024
Whippany, New Jersey, United States
  • Salary average
    -
  • Type of employment
    Permanent, Full-time
  • Remote
    No

Company

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.

Responsibilities

  • Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda
  • Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes
  • Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises
  • Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done
  • To solve problems creatively and effectively
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy
  • Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice
  • Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings
  • To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk

Contract

40 hours per week

Candidate requirements

  • Sponsored visas are role and entity specific, and any changes must be reviewed
  • Additional relevant skills of value are DMZ, SkyBots, CISSP, CISA, CISM and Financial Services experience

Skills used at work

  • Analysis
  • Best practice
  • Business
  • Business strategy
  • Business units
  • Complex analysis
  • Control assessment
  • Documentation
  • Integrity
  • Internal control
  • Other
  • Reputational risk

Join us as a Firewall Security Consultant at Barclays where you'll work with our Network Security team across the UK and India. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase our experience in compliance and risk, knowledge of data leakage and security standard frameworks IDO27001, NIST.

To be successful as a Firewall Security Consultant you should have experience with:

  • 3 solid years of working in the security world
  • Financial Services experience
  • DMZ
  • SkyBot
  • CISSP, CISA, CISM or either studying for or successful accreditation

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Whippany, NJ

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

  • Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
  • Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank's control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
  • Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
  • Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
  • Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

  • Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
  • Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
  • Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
  • Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
  • Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
  • Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Job posted: Oct 07, 2024

Expiration date: Oct 30, 2024