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Job overview

As a Cybersecurity Governance & Assurance Specialist you are vital to the GF IT Cybersecurity organization in that you will assist the whole Skanska organization in obtaining a sufficient level of information security. In this role you will help enhance, communicate, monitor, and maintain our cybersecurity program, which consist of defining information security related strategies, requirements and controls, security metrics and KPI’s etc. 

Within this role lies identifying critical information assets such as systems and other critical digital assets, addressing security controls for each critical digital asset as well as enforcing the implementation of attack mitigation activities and maintaining overall governance capabilities.

To succeed in this role, you have a passion for information and cyber security, an understanding of the core business and how information security supports that, a desire to continuously learn and develop, and a positive and service orientated mindset!

Responsibilities and duties

The tasks within the Governance & Assurance team will be evolving over time and distributed within the team based on each team member’s competence and, when possible, preferred work task. The primarily responsibilities and duties within this role are thus described on a rather generic level and include for example, but not exclusively, the following.

Cybersecurity Governance & Assurance [90%, Primary Responsibility]: 

• Govern and ensure BU alignment with internal governance and key frameworks 
• Assist in both external and internal audits  
• Research and recommend solutions for ever evolving security landscape
• Provide mentorship (if applicable) to junior team members  
• Own & act as SME for multiple Security disciplines   
• Serve as escalation point for resolving governance and assurance issues 
• Build & maintain customer relationships 
• Work with internal stakeholders to answer customer SIG questionnaires  
• Participate in Global Cybersecurity discussions and sessions  
• Assist in local/global incidents and requests
• Create meaningful relationships across multiple levels
• Stay current on challenges and input from local BU

  Continuing Education [10%]: 

• Have a passion for learning and always stay current with skills.  
• Research emerging information security and cyber threats and mitigation.  
• Constantly improve skills required for the position.

Qualifications

Education:

• Information Security Certifications or equivalent working experience.

Experience: 

• A minimum of three (3) years working with Information Security/IT/Governance/Risk.

• Ability to successfully work independently as well as within a team.

• Experience successfully prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience successfully working with others to achieve shared goals.

• Experience successfully creating meaningful relationships with colleagues.

• Experience successfully connecting business value with technology solutions.

Skills: 

Preferred: 

• 5 years of related experience working with Information/Cybersecurity 

• Certified CISA, CRISC, MGT415, GSLC, CCSP, CISSP, or equivalent 

• 3rd party risk or Risk assessments 

• Governance 

• Cybersecurity Frameworks 

• DR/BCP 

• Cybersecurity metrics 

Competencies: 

• Passionate about the intersection of construction, technology, and people 

• Being a true team player; care about others and assist in motivate them to succeed 

• Passionate about continuous improvement 

• Management and soft skills development commitment

Work relations

• This role may, from time to time, have work relations with basically any other different job role within the overall Skanska organization within the performance of work tasks that are within the scope of the Governance & Assurance team.
• Primarily work relations will be within the overall Cybersecurity organization and the infrastructure organization.

Interested to apply or to learn more?

In this recruitment, Skanska is collaborating with IDG Recruitment. If you have any questions, please contact Fredrik Svensson, Recruitment Consultant at , 

To apply, kindly do it with your CV or LinkedIn profile and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Selection and interviews are ongoing.

About Skanska

We’re a global construction and development company built on 134 years of knowledge and experience. You’ll find our offices across the Nordics, Central & Eastern Europe, UK, and the USA. Together, we’re 32,000+ expert colleagues, change-makers, mothers and fathers, creators and explorers shaping society towards a smarter and more sustainable future. Each of us play a vital role in telling the Skanska story.

At our headquarters in Stockholm we set the direction for the company at large and for our local units to thrive. Among other things, we create global policies and strategies, define and follow up on targets, and ensure financial capacity. While we may be builders by trade, we’re human-centric by nature. Every decision we make, big and small, has an impact. That’s why we believe in putting people, communities, and our environment at the heart of everything we do.