Information Security Officer

Want to really make a difference in a growing Information Security team?

We’re looking for an Information Security Officer. You’ll be responsible for the security governance, security culture and security assurance of our information and data assets across the global group.

You’ll be based out of either our Bristol or Southampton offices working in a flexible and hybrid way.

About Us

A career at Gresham provides a unique blend of agility, innovation, empowerment and warmth. We’re well established with global clients and an admired product, meaning you can feel secure and confident about your future. But we still retain the agility and intimacy of a small business, meaning you can influence change and see the impact of your ideas. We limit hierarchy and are big on collaboration, so you’ll be challenging and stretching yourself everyday, working with leading edge technologies that help improve integrity and accuracy in our sector. You’ll feel at home in our friendly, supportive, people-centric culture where we work towards common goals, not individual interests.

Gresham helps global businesses connect, reconcile and control their data, systems and processes. And in doing so, we deliver something that is vital to modern business. Data confidence. Our teams are responsible for building and delivering leading edge solutions, to our customers, the world’s top financial institutions.

A background and in interest in Financial Services would be a bonus.

Requirements

You’ll maintain our information security management system, deliver security culture and assurance activities, oversee any remediation, and generally promote the advancement of the group’s security practices and activities.

With the support of the Information Security Lead, you’ll be responsible for security governance and risk management across the group, helping individuals, teams or offices to achieve security governance objectives. You may be involved in maintaining security documentation or maintaining the information security management system. You will develop and maintain information security policies, procedures and guidelines which align with industry standards as well as collect and report metrics and KPIs.

As Information Security Officer, you play a key role in establishing and embedding a strong security culture throughout the group by promoting best practice and supporting the adoption of our information security management system.

You’ll lead our security assurance activities to give us confidence in our security practices, ensuring our information security management system stands up to scrutiny, and minimising risks for our customers and in our supply chain.

You’ll have a keen interest in security advances so you’ll be up to date with the latest cybersecurity technologies and standards. You’ll likely have a relevant information security certification as well as some previous experience in an information security role and you’ll have strong working knowledge of ISO27001 and a good technical awareness. This technical experience coupled with an organised, proactive and self-motivated approach will help you thrive in our dynamic and fast moving organisation.

Benefits

Our culture and everything we do is underpinned by our values; We Embrace Difference, We Create Together and We Champion Success. We value different backgrounds, experience, expertise and ways of thinking. We encourage curiosity, and respect every individual, recognising that everyone has the potential to bring something extraordinary to Gresham to make it a great place to work. And as you’d expect we offer benefits typically associated with a Fintech. We are a global organisation with a flexible approach to working whether that’s where you’re based or how you work.

• Hybrid working: core working hours with flexible start and finish time in line with team, with opportunity to work from our fantastic offices and from home
• 25 days Annual Leave + 8 Public Holidays + your birthday off
• Ability to buy/sell/carry over up to 5 days annual leave
• Learning platform: free Udemy access with over 14,000 courses to choose from
• Pension: up to 5% employer matching
• Life Assurance: 4 x annual salary with option to flex up to 10 x base salary
• Vitality: Individual Private Medical Healthcare Plan, cover can be extended
• Discretionary Company Bonus: based on individual and group performance
• Flex Benefits: Gresham offers an £250 annual allowance towards a range of additional benefit including Health Cash Plan, Dental Plan, Critical Illness, Cycle to Work,
• Charity Giving, Season Ticket Loan.
• Perks Platform: offering discounts on a range of products
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual equipment allowance to support working from home

As an equal opportunities employer, Gresham Technologies is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

We are unable to provide employment sponsorship for any associated immigration visa application. All successful candidates will be required to provide evidence of a right to work before they commence employment with us.

NOTE to Agencies: We work with selected recruitment agencies only. We do not accept speculative CVs.