Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Cyber Risk Consultant At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future. We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries. Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength, and embrace change to their advantage.
The Opportunity This intellectually challenging and highly influential role is part of a Group Cyber Security Governance, Risk and Compliance team accountable for helping to safeguard QBE from increasingly complex Cyber issues and information security threats. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring a sustained level of curiosity and an ability to prioritise numerous matters simultaneously.
Key Responsibilities - Conducting internal risk assessments as part of our Risk Control Self Assessment (RCSA) process.
- Developing, enhancing, and reporting key Cyber metrics to senior governance forums.
- Understanding the root cause of any KRI impacts and ensuring these are accurately reported.
- Responding to regulatory matters.
- Supporting a significant transformational change in the way Cyber and information security risk is considered and mitigated across the core business, 3rd party suppliers, programs and projects.
- Building cyber and information security risk experience across QBE, coaching understanding, building awareness, and engendering healthy curiosity.
- Proactively managing the relationship with both the Enterprise Risk Management and Audit to senior governance forum’s function.
- Building strong collaborative relationships, providing advice and working together to identify and solve root cause problems, demonstrating great tenacity in reducing potential threats and risks.
- Contributing to the development, execution, and assurance of an effective Cyber practice, including the adoption of relevant policy, standards, processes, and templates.
- Collaborating across Technology Services and IT suppliers to avoid security problems manifesting as business problems.
Skills Required - Previous experience conducting internal or third party cyber risk assessments.
- Experience with security and risk-based standards such as ISO2700X, NIST CSF and other relevant security risk standards and technologies.
- Previous experience engaging with Second Line risk functions and/or Third Line audit functions.
- Good communication, negotiation and conflict management skills with an ability to anticipate and flag potential obstacles.
- Experienced in working across time zones and collaborating in a multi-cultural environment.
We are here to support you We are here to support you We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As an QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:
- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘At My Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners
- BCS Organisational Membership
Some of the awards QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include:
- The British Computer Society 2021 Winners - Inspirational Individual of the Year; IT Service & Support Professional of the year
- British Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech Award
- Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the Year
- Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response
- Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year
We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent.
Why QBE?Working for us. Working for you. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. Offering a great range of benefits which enable you to bring your best self to work; including competitive salaries and bonus structures, health and wellbeing programs, hybrid working for the flexibility of working from home and the office. In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.
At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.