Financial Conduct Authority Cyber Assurance Specialist

5 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time
About the Job

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.

Key Responsibilities

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.
Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

  • Proven experience working in vulnerability management and post-incident reviews and able to support security projects and BAU initiatives.
  • Proven experience of inputting from a SME perspective validating security controls in alignment with policies and standards.
  • Good understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and regulations (e.g NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO27001, PCI-DSS, CIS, GDPR etc).
  • 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.
  • Understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS and Salesforce etc.
  • 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.
What We Offer

The FCA offers a range of benefits, including:

  • 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays.
  • Private healthcare with Bupa.
  • 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).
  • Life assurance of eight times your basic salary.
Working Arrangements

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.



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