Cyber Threat Specialist

**About Us**
Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn’t from traditional lenders.
Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people’s lives today, as it did when it was founded.
Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.
**You and Your Team**
This is a new role sitting within a new, dedicated function and so offers a great opportunity to really make a difference on how threat intelligence operates and how it is perceived across the business.
**Hybrid working is available in this role. We ask that you attend the office 1-2 days per week.**
**Compressed working patterns are available in this role.**
**This role could be based in any of our four locations; Bradford, London, Petersfield or Chatham**.
**About the Role**
In your day-to-day role, as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist you will:

- Build relationships and work with stakeholders from within Cyber Security and the wider organisation to define intelligence requirements.
- Maintain knowledge and understanding of the cyber threats facing financial organisations.
- Coordinate the implementation and ongoing management of threat intelligence tools and platforms.
- Identify strategic, tactical, and operational intelligence trends, patterns, and behaviour to provide business-focused, impactful intelligence. Develop and deliver high quality written and verbal briefing material, communicating the threat landscape for a range of audiences up to and including C suite.
- Manage relationships and outputs of third-party Cyber Threat Intelligence partners.
- Support threat detection and incident response activities with research and analysis.
- Enable the wider organisation to use threat intelligence for informed decision making.
- Explore opportunities to work with other financial institutes, regulators, and authorities to share intelligence.

**About You**
What you will bring to the team:

- Knowledge of IT Technologies, Cyber Security solutions and capabilities.
- Strong organisational skills and presentation skills.
- Solid teamwork skills mean the ability to collaborate with others who are researching the same or different areas than what you’re looking into.
- Excellent writing/communication skills
- Should be working towards or have one or several the following certifications: CRTIA, CRTIM with the following qualifications as desirable: CRISC, CISSP, CCSP and relevant GIAC certifications.
- IT expertise coupled with understanding of financial services and impacting laws and regulations.
- Hands on security experience in an enterprise environment.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP and networking technologies/protocols
- Experience of working in an NIST and/or ITIL controlled environment.
- Strong, clear communication skills are required to build key relationships with business stakeholders and technical colleagues.

**Why join Vanquis Banking Group?**
Vanquis was established in 2003, offering a credit card designed to help customers improve their credit score. In 2016, Vanquis introduced personal loans to give customers additional opportunities on their credit-building journeys. Vanquis brings together our lengthy history in the financial sector with modern money management through its online and app-based accounts.
Our colleagues are the most important part of delivering our purpose to put customers on a path to a better everyday life. If it wasn’t for their amazing efforts, ideas and energy we wouldn’t be the successful business that we are today.
On top of all this, we will give you a package including:

- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Hybrid working considered
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%
- Private Medical Insurance
- Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
- Opportunity to grow, develop and learn
- Colleague Perks at Work discount platform
- Season ticket loan
- One paid day to give back to local communities or chosen charity

We strive to constantly improve the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves. We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We a