IT Risk Manager, Assistant Vice President

Background

The role of an IT Risk Manager encompasses a broad set of responsibilities, with primary responsibilities to maintain the IT Risk Framework, develop and administer risk policies/procedures for the organization and performing risk and control assessments. This is a role within Jefferies Technology in Tokyo, while being an integral part of the Global Technology team.

Responsibilities

• Perform risk and control assessments, which comprise analyzing, identifying, describing, and quantifying risks that impact all business risks
• Monitoring risk trends, areas of concern and develop mitigation plans with Jefferies’ IT stakeholders. Challenge risk mitigation decisions as appropriate
• Maintain engagement with senior IT risk managers, and run/support relevant risk forums
• Develop and maintain good communication channels with other risk partners, such as Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, etc.
• Run annual assessment of technology vendors
• Raise risk awareness, provide education and training to employees inside the organization

Required Qualifications

The following qualifications, skills, and experience are required for this role

• At least four years of relevant work experience in fields of IT Risk Management, IT Audit or Operational Risk with Technology/Cyber focus.
• Experience in the financial service industry.
• Familiarity with Technology and Cyber risk assessment and prevention
• Familiarity with technology cyber and IT risk assessments
• Ability to analyze large sets of data and communicate complex information
• Ability to distill risk information for non-technical profiles throughout the company
• Ability to brief, train and direct staff in the application of new processes and controls
• Ability to formulate constructive feedback to a wide array of different stakeholders
• Language requirement: Fluent in Japanese and English