Cyber Security Analyst

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time
Financial Conduct Authority

The Financial Conduct Authority is the conduct regulator for around 50,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the UK and the prudential supervisor for 48,000 firms.

We are seeking a highly skilled Cyber Assurance Analyst to join our team and contribute to the ongoing efforts in assessing and improving the cyber security posture of the FCA.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of cyber assurance practices, emerging threats, and risk management practices.

  1. Conduct cyber security assessments and evaluate the effectiveness of the FCA defence strategies, incident response plans and control measures.
  2. Review existing cyber security policies, procedures, and frameworks to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, best practices, and industry standards.
  3. Scope and manage pentest engagements, identify vulnerabilities, threats and risk exposures that may pose a threat to the FCA data security and operational stability.
  4. Collaborate with internal audit, risk, and policy and governance and compliance teams to establish effective guidelines, compliance and good practices to enhance the cyber security posture.

Working for the FCA allows you to specialise in the unique cyber security challenges faced by the financial services industry.

Through your role as a cyber assurance professional, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices that can be applied across various environments covering emerging security technologies.

Working for the FCA can provide networking opportunities with professionals across the financial services sector as well as world-leading cyber security vendors. You will have the chance to collaborate with industry leaders, attend conferences, and participate in working groups and forums, which can contribute to your professional growth and expand your network.

Career progression is paramount to the success of the FCA, as there will be potential opportunities to progress to more senior roles as you develop.

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option to top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:
  1. 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays.
  2. Private healthcare with Bupa.
  3. A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35).
  4. Life assurance of eight times your basic salary.

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum:

  1. Proven experience working in vulnerability management and post-incident reviews and able to support security projects and BAU initiatives.
  2. Proven experience of inputting from a SME perspective validating security controls in alignment with policies and standards.
  3. Good understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and regulations (e.g NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO27001, PCI-DSS, CIS, GDPR etc).
  4. Proficient in performing cyber security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, scoping and managing the end-to-end pen test engagements with key stakeholders, post-incident analysis and be able to understand penetration testing reports.
  5. Understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS and Salesforce etc.
  6. Understanding and use of security tooling such as Qualys, Nessus (vulnerability management tooling), Risk Recon, Bitsight, Toro (third party risk management tools). Security Reporting Dashboarding tools, open-source vulnerability tools, Familiar with Jira and ServiceNow or similar.


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