AVP, Security Governance & Assurance

The NETS Group is a leading payments services group, enabling digital payments for merchants, consumers and banks across the entire payments value chain. 

 

The Group operates Singapore’s national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB to make payments using their ATM cards or mobile devices at more than 130,000 acceptance points in the country as well as online payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the management and enforcement of IS related policies, processes and procedures.


• Execute policies, processes and procedures to facilitate effective IT and cyber related-risk Process and Control arising from Audit Findings or Process improvement maturity


• Partner and work with internal stakeholders to review, identify, streamline and implement process improvements with regards to Cyber risk management


• Reference to regulator’s notices, circulares and guidelines (such as, TRM, Cyber Hygiene) to assess risk and gaps, and work with Line 2 and Tech to improve policies and processes to mitigate risks, minimize their impact to operations


• Prepare and provide data for risk analysis and reporting.


• Communicate and provide guidance of new IS policies and standards to relevant stakeholders.


• Manage IS related audits, regulatory inspections. Review the audit findings with key stakeholders to determine audit findings root cause, formulate action plans accordingly and verify remedial solutions for closure


• Laision for IS audits, Risk and Compliance activities and providing support to business audits that have IS involvement.


• Manage audit lifecycle from start to end (eg kick off meeting, RFI, fieldwork, reporting and closure of audit findings).


• Ability to innovate and automate as required

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any other related disciplines with at least 8 years of progressive experience in Information security, including experience in security policy development, risk assessment, compliance implementation & monitoring and governance (preferably from financial/banking/payment industry


• Good working knowledge of enterprise security risk management methods and techniques to successfully deliver the security risk management and assessment outcome.


• Prior experience in implementing a program which includes the collation, management and reporting of security metrics (KRI) such as vulnerability management, open software security vulnerabilities, penetration testing findings, security alerts and incidents


• Experienced in information security frameworks including ISO27000 standard, NIST framework and regulations such as Cyber Hygiene Notice, Technology Risk Management Guidelines and Personal Data Protection Act.


• Ability to work in a team environment and work independently with minimal supervision and produce results that meet standards of quality, timeliness and acceptability


• Willingness to deep-dive and learn about the Information Security function within the payments domain


• Strong writing, communication and inter‐personal skills 

Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd.