Job Description:

Job Title: Country Information Security Officer

Corporate Title: Senior Vice President

Location: Central Park, Leopardstown, Dublin

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location
Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Role Overview

In this role you’ll collaborate with business leaders to balance organization needs while ensuring robust information security. Key responsibilities include leading in-depth discussions on information security risks and acting as an integrated business partner across functions to manage security effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Provide advisory and oversight on information security as the appointed country lead.
• Working with the regional and global Information Security teams to ensure that Information Security requirements and initiatives are communicated, discussed and tracked in an effective, consistent and timely way to senior management across BofA Europe DAC.
• Liaise with GIS teams to ensure compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Guide business leaders and technology teams on initiatives requiring Global Information Security (GIS) engagement and manages problem resolution for cyber security related issues.
• Serve as a common risk control partner to identify emerging security risks in the portfolio.
• Drive adherence to appropriate risk tolerance levels, operating in accordance with defined information security policies to protect against threats to data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Promote awareness of current and emerging cybersecurity threats and advises on potential information security exposure.
• Assess and mitigates cyber security risks related to application, network, infrastructure, and public cloud.
• Interpret the information security requirements outlined in policies, standards, and procedures and reinforce requirements through education and awareness.
• Lead as a "security ambassador" to help business leaders drive strategic and innovative risk mitigation priorities and navigate the GIS organization.

What we are looking for:

Data Governance: Ability to ensure data accuracy, reliability and security through internal standards and regulations.

Cyber Security: Knowledge of enterprise systems threats and ability to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.

Information Systems Management: Experience overseeing IT infrastructure, applications, and databases.

Customer and Client Focus: Prioritizing customer needs and maintain client relationships.

Executive Presence: Demonstrated leadership communication and decision-making skills.

Vendor Management: Experience in managing relationships with external suppliers and service providers.

Architecture: Understanding systems architecture and design principles.

Threat Analysis: Ability to identify and mitigate security risks.

Business Intelligence: Ability of analyzing data to drive informed business decisions.

Controls Management: Ability to implement and monitoring internal controls.

Advisory: Ability to provide strategic guidance to stakeholders

Cloud Solutions: Familiarity with cloud platforms and services

Technology System Assessment: Experience in evaluating existing systems for efficiency and effectiveness.

Benefits of working at Bank of America

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Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.