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Position Title – WR15102172015

Sr. Information Security Risk Analyst - Security – CISSP - Asset Management – Marlboro, MA Area – Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Green Card or US Citizens Only – Local Candidates Only

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Outstanding Compensation Package – Bonus – Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth possibilities.

Position Summary:

Information Security is expanding the Risk Management team and is looking for a highly motivated, technical Risk Analyst to be responsible for the risk assessment portion of the Risk Management program. This individual will have responsibility in the areas of information security risk assessments for internal projects as well as third party vendors, and will interface with technology staff, business staff, outside vendors and clients to assess, report on, and present on information security risks. This individual will also work directly with developers, infrastructure teams, architects, and business areas on evaluating and designing security controls necessary to mitigate identified risks, and will be a core member of a rapidly growing Information Security and IT Risk team with opportunities to help expand the program and provide value in multiple areas of the firm.

Responsibilities:

· Work with the vendor management team to perform thorough technical and policy-based information security risk assessments of key third party vendors.

· Work with internal application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to assess the information security risk of existing technology, infrastructure and processes as well as proposed projects.

· Coordinate business-level information security risk assessments for key information assets.

· Help to identify and track mitigation actions intended to reduce identified risks, as well as tracking and reporting on changes in key risk indicators.

· Assist with information security risk aspects of internal audits.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 10+ years’ experience in Information Security roles with hands-on experience with a variety of technologies and architectures sufficient to provide the background necessary to work closely and “go deep” with development and infrastructure teams.

· Preferred 5+ years’ experience in designing, deploying, or assessing information security technology, processes, and controls.

· Experience with Vendor Management Programs, performing risk assessments of third party service providers/vendors based on ISO27001 and SIG, review of SSAE16, etc.

· Experience performing technical risk assessments for internal projects, working closely with the architecture team.

· Significant breath of technical experience and critical analysis skills sufficient to perform detailed risk analysis on a variety of technologies and use cases. The successful candidate will have the technical depth and analysis capabilities necessary to be proficient when examining controls and identifying risk in areas such as data encryption, access control, security architecture, information security policy and standards, and vulnerability management.

· Past experience working with auditors to prepare SSAE16 or similar reports.

· Experience responding to client RFPs, and meeting with clients to review information security posture.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills are a must.

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

· CISSP is preferred.

Keys to this Position:

1) We are seeking 10 plus years’ in Information Security including 5 plus years’ of experience with Information Security Risk assessments. The Information Security Risk assessment will affect both external vendor’s and internal projects so experience in both areas are highly desired.

2) We are seeking technical depth in the following areas: Data Encryption, Access Control, Security Architecture, Information Security policy and standards and Vulnerability Management. This individual will need to be able to completely assess any risks within an Information Security Architecture.

3) Excellent communication skills are needed as this individual will interface with business users, outside vendors and IT teams.