Business Information Security Officer

Paris, France

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Key information

Date live: 01/15/2025

Business Area: Global Security

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000034291

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Join Barclays as a Business Information Security Officer, where you’ll lead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and operational excellence. In this role, you will support the Markets Europe CISO, taking responsibility for managing and overseeing the markets’ cyber risk posture, providing cyber incident support, offering regulatory assistance, and engaging with key stakeholders across the Markets Europe business.

Please note that fluency in both English andFrench is an essential requirement for this position.

To be successful as a Business Information Security Officer, you will need the following:

Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, with substantial demonstrable experience in the cyber information security field, including systems audit, internal controls, and/or security consulting.
Extensive, proven experience in implementing or managing cyber information security risk management processes and tools.
In-depth knowledge and understanding of the regulatory landscape in France and the broader European Union, including relevant legislation, directives, and regulations governing cyber information security.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Cyber information security certifications such as CISM, CISSP, or similar recognised standards.
Significant experience in cyber information security within the Financial Services industry.
Fluency in additional EU official languages in addition to French and English.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Paris.

Purpose of the role

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

Accountabilities

Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness and provide guidance on safe online practices.
Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.
Directly support the reporting of our risk exposure and control maturity against the relevant Policies and Standards.
Through effective analysis, they will support the design and implementation of information and cyber security controls and change initiatives across Barclays Europe to keep the bank, customers, clients, and colleagues safe, secure and always on.
Support cyber intelligence engagement strategies with public private partnerships and identify and develop external intelligence stakeholder relationships in line with cyber strategy.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Develop a comprehensive knowledge of the supported business unit, and foster an effective information security culture to enable the business to achieve its objectives.
Provide expert-level cyber security briefings and stakeholder management support tailored for Barclays Europe Executive leadership.
Deliver specialised cyber security expertise to external stakeholders, including regulatory bodies, ensuring clear and impactful communication.
Excellent proficiency in IT productivity applications (e.g., Office Applications).

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

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Barclays offers a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture. A place where people can bring their whole selves to work and be respected for who they are, valued for what they do and celebrated for their contribution to our business and our community.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

Who succeeds in
Tech at Barclays?

For a career with us, you need to be prepared to take big steps forward, curious to face the challenges ahead, and driven to focus on the outcomes. We need people with the Barclays mindset to make it happen here.

What you'll get in return

Competitive holiday allowance

Life assurance

Private medical care

Pension contribution

Our technology

Supporting our 48 million customers and clients worldwide takes a lot of forward thinking. It means harnessing technology to support the economy. It means making a difference to people’s lives. And it requires the maintenance and development of a global, technological infrastructure. At Barclays, technology helps us keep transactions moving, manages data, and protects our customers. Join a world where your work creates unique moments of impact. Make it happen here.

This is Barclays Paris

Our office in Paris provides a full investment banking service to our local and global clients. Our integrated coverage model means we are able to provide our clients with access to deep expertise across sectors, regions and products.

We’re close to the Arc de Triomphe, maintaining Barclays’ presence in a central and iconic part of one of the world’s great cities.

We provide a contemporary workplace for our teams in Investment Banking which includes Markets and Banking, and Corporate Banking

We’re in a prime business location, well-served by public transportation, including metro and bus lines, which make commuting easy.

Our innovative trading floor is a place where 150 dedicated colleagues support Barclays' Markets essential operations in Paris.

This is Barclays Paris

The place to be in Paris

We’re close to the Arc de Triomphe, maintaining Barclays’ presence in a central and iconic part of one of the world’s great cities.

Making work a pleasure

We provide a contemporary workplace for our teams in Investment Banking which includes Markets and Banking, and Corporate Banking

Your commute

We’re in a prime business location, well-served by public transportation, including metro and bus lines, which make commuting easy.

Trading up

Our innovative trading floor is a place where 150 dedicated colleagues support Barclays' Markets essential operations in Paris.

Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

Hybrid working: Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience. And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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