Job Openings at TechAdvance

Job Purpose

• The Chief Information Security Officer has ultimate responsibility for information security at TechAdvance; he/she provides an accurate view of the information security conditions and encourages information owners and users to keep risks at an acceptable level.

Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the CISO with respect to information security are detailed below:

• Accountable to the Executive Management for enabling the business to balance risk and reward
• Accountable for enabling the efficient and effective governance of significant risks (strategic, reputational, operational, financial, or compliance-related), and related opportunities, to TechAdvance and its various segments
• Responsible for coordinating TechAdvance’s Risk Management (RM) approach.
• Responsible for ensuring that TechAdvance is in full compliance with applicable regulations
• Ensures that the TechAdvance's risk profile matches its risk appetite
• Ensures that security initiatives and activities are aligned with business objectives
• Ensures the implementation of information security strategy and policies approved by the Board
• Escalates information security incidents to the Executive Management Committee where necessary
• Provides appropriate resources to evaluate and control information-related risks
• Provides guidance and direction for the ISMS Steering Committee and Management Review Meetings
• Reviews information security policies at least annually or when significant changes occur in the information security implementation
• Sponsors TechAdvance's information security programme
• Sponsors and promotes the effectiveness of the information security organisation
• Ensure that top management, as well as key stakeholders within the information security organogram, possesses the requisite expertise and knowledge required to secure the TechAdvance’s information assets
• Ensure that TechAdvance implements a sound methodology for managing information security consistent with the ISO 27001 standards
• Ensure that detailed policies, standards and procedures are created, updated regularly and effectively  communicated within TechAdvance
• Assess the effectiveness of TechAdvance’s information security programme
• Perform oversight functions spanning TechAdvance’s information security organisation
• Ensure that TechAdvance adequately budgets for information security

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with relevant certifications
• 7-12 years of work experience in progressive IT Security
• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills
• Strong leadership and managerial skills
• Good knowledge of regulatory compliance, including PCI DSS, NIST etc.
• A good understanding of security concepts such as DNS, authentication, VPN, proxy services and DDOS mitigation technologies is necessary. Experience with TCP/IP, routing and switching is also required
• Experience with frameworks like ISO 27001/27002, ITIL and COBIT
• Must be proficient to work with Windows and Unix like operating systems
• Familiar with Security of cloud-based infrastructure
• Experience with risk management, network security of both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, firewall management

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to provide strategic business insights; develop and implement a process to identify management's intelligence needs; gather the related information; analyze the relevant information; provide timely reports to be acted upon based on the analyses and implement the recommendations.
• This role will be key to understanding the documenting capabilities needed to address business challenges.

Responsibilities

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on needs assessment, new product ideation, concept testing, pricing, customer segmentation, satisfaction and loyalty
• Prepare regular market intelligence reports for internal key stakeholders to support their decision making
• Identify and quantify the niche market, technical trends and new market segments for new business opportunities and risks
• Provide management with targeted, incisive and succinct dashboards, reports, and analysis that promote data-driven decisions
• Analyze potential business strategies and models to determine their viability, as well as identify and fix weaknesses in operational performance
• Analyze and present insight on where services are poor, inefficient or fail to reach desired outcomes
• Analyze continuously key competitors, key industries and translate intelligence into business insights and recommendations
• Develop new business strategies and business models, taking all aspects into consideration and providing insight into how these strategies will benefit the company
• Lead the company in the execution of business strategies and internal projects to ensure the desired result is achieved quickly and effectively
• Plan and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research studies in support of strategic planning and specific marketing initiatives, as required and presents findings of studies to business

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
• 3-5 years of proven experience as a Business Analyst
• Demonstrated fluency in business processes and process differentiation
• Strong project management, ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point
• Strong relationship building skills and leadership skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Must have proficiency with SQL, Microsoft Excel