Your role
We may be part of a large banking group, but we’re a small, tight-knit bank with a focused business model and a young team. The Risk Manager for Security/Technology within the Non-Financial Risk department at Lloyds Bank is responsible for managing risks together with the team and the business, focusing mainly on Technology and Security risks. This role involves oversighting risk management through test plans, advising and guiding the business, translating internal and external requirements into policies, and providing training and awareness.
While most activities are related to Technology and Security, the role also covers Data Quality Management and Financial reporting together with the team.
A day in the life of a Risk Manager Security and Technology
After your morning coffee, you start the day by checking the team mailbox for requests or questions in your areas to respond to. You then join the bi-weekly meeting with the Security and Technology colleagues from the team to discuss topics, align approaches and raise and/or answer questions. Mid-morning you perform a Test Plan on a Control around penetration testing to validate the design and operating effectiveness.
After lunch, you have noticed a potential security incident and coordinate the management of it as you are on duty today ensuring applicable regulatory reporting timelines are being adhered to. In the afternoon, you assess the applicability of a new regulatory requirement.
Towards the end of the day, you validate a risk acceptance to ensure the risk is appropriately documented and understood. You finish the day by responding to questions and requests received in your mailbox and updating tasks in Microsoft Planner.
Which team will you be joining?
The Data, Security and Technology Team within the Non-Financial Risk department at Lloyds Bank is responsible for ensuring the management of Data Privacy, Records Management, Data Ethics, Data Quality, Security, Technology and Financial Reporting risks with agreed risk appetite and in accordance with the Risk Management Framework, the Policy Framework and applicable law and regulations. We are a divers team of experts in multiple areas and having different cultural backgrounds. We are working across countries as part of the team is based in Berlin and part of the team in Amsterdam. As such, we often work remotely, but periodically come together in our offices separately as well as all together. The tasks of the Risk Manager for Security/Technology include the following in the area of Technology and Security as well as Data Quality Management and Financial Reporting:
- Oversight risk management through performing test plans
- Perform continuous risk management by operating processes and performing controls
- Ensure the continuous risk assessment of the bank’s local information and data domains
- Act as point of contact for the definition of policies and procedures in close cooperation with internal stakeholders
- Provide strategic guidance to the business operation
- Support and advice departments
- Coordinate changes in cooperation with internal/external stakeholders
- Oversight and advice changes
- Design and issue regular and ad hoc reporting to the Management Board as well as other internal and external stakeholders
- Develop, maintain and monitor related indicators and risk appetite metrics
- Design and execute regular training and awareness campaigns
- Assess legal and regulatory changes and ensure translation into local processes
- Assess existing as well as new suppliers
You recognize yourself in this profile
Experience and Capabilities
- Profound knowledge of Security Standards (e.g. ISO, DORA, MaRisk, NIST, ITIL)
- At least 3 years of experience in Security, IT and risk/compliance/audit within financial services industry
- Interest in other risk areas, such as Data Quality Management, Financial reporting and Technology
- Knowledge and/or experience on Data Quality Management, Financial Reporting and Technology (BCBS 239, CRR, SOX) is a pre
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong planning and time management skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong influencing skills
- Fluency in written and spoken English (German and/or Dutch is a plus)
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Some highlights of our benefits for you!
- 13th-month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December.
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on full-time employment).
- Non-contributory pension scheme.
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs.
Your recruitment process
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
After you have submitted your application, our recruiter Stanley Waccary will reach out to you to plan a short introductory chat via Teams.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send your application, including your paper on risk elements within the mortgage market, to: stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl. A screening is part of the process.
We hope to meet you soon!
Acquisition to this vacancy is not appreciated.