Job Description

Job Title: Information Security Officer

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President

Location: Istanbul

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

This role will act as the primary contact providing advisory and oversight on information security topics, policies, and controls. And will ensure a focus on risk priorities relating to information security.

To achieve this, you will leverage the wider regional and global information security functions as needed.

Responsibilities:

• You will provide advisory and oversight on information security as appointed country/entity lead. Collaborating with regional and global Information Security functions to prevent, detect, mitigate and respond/recover to information security issues.
• You will be working with the regional and global Information Security teams to ensure that Information Security requirements are communicated, discussed and tracked in an effective, consistent and timely way to senior management
• You will be working in collaboration with the Risk and Compliance teams, supporting them in their activities and helping them continue to develop processes and solutions.
• You will be partnering closely with technology groups and the wider GIS teams to remediate Information Security issues in a timely manner to reduce vulnerability.
• We are looking for you to drive security awareness activities in the country, based on the risk and threat landscape.
• You will monitor information security trends internal and external to the bank and keep leadership informed about information security-related issues and activities affecting the organisation

What we are looking for:

• We are looking for an Information Security & Technology experienced professional with extensive experience
• You will have subject matter expertise in information security; including topics such as application security, vulnerability testing and development of risk appetite and experience in understanding and evaluating cyber security controls
• Extensive risk management experience with ability to effectively apply risk principles to challenging business situations
• Notable executive presentation and communication skills
• Excellent influencing and problem resolution skills
• Ability to be comfortable delivering messages across a wide spectrum of individuals having varying degrees of technical understanding
• Significant leadership skills and qualities which enable you to work with peers and various levels of management

Skills that will help:

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field
• Relevant information security certifications (For example, CISSP, CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security +) would be an advantage

Bank of America:

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/sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants, family status or 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.