Chief Information Security Officer

**Job Description - APAC**

**Note to Hiring Manager**:
Job Title:
Chief Information Security Officer

Date:
August 2024

Department:
IT

**Location**:
Mumbai, India

Business Line / Function:
ITO CCCO

Reports to:
(Direct)

SIPL COO

Grade:
(if applicable)

(Functional)

APAC Head -Business and Information Security

Number of Direct Reports:
N/A

Directorship / Registration:
N/A

Is Associated Person (AP)*

No
- For GM, GB, ALMT, FIC, WM, Legal and Risk

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 18,000 employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 68 markets with more than 193,000 employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
- excluding partnerships

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

**POSITION PURPOSE**:
**Responsibilities**

**DIRECT RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**1. IT Risk Management**
- Inform APAC IT Security Risk Management team about any new projects or major change within India for further risk assessment.
- Ensure risk assessment on the in-scope projects, third-party vendors and the deviation of policies & best practice is properly conducted. Ensure the recommendation issued for projects and security exceptions / risk acceptances are properly followed up.
- To translate policy statements into local guidelines and procedures in order to produce enforceable actions
- To enforce an efficient user account management process in order to authorize and control users’ accesses and habitations to IT Systems
- To monitor and ensure immediate and accurate reporting of any SIPL IT Security related incident (intrusion, virus, etc.) to the regional & global IT Security and Incident Management processes.
- To be part of the network rules review and recertification process, by reviewing and approving all network access requests (including firewall, proxy and SMTP requests), and perform periodical review.
- To work in partnership with the Business Lines, Organization & Methods, Information Systems, and others to draw up measures for implementing the Company's Information Systems Security Directives. Especially to participate to all projects in order to ensure respect of good IT Security practices
- To work with different stakeholders and assist India CIO to implement the IT risk management framework
- To conduct necessary security controls, reviews, assessment to ensure the best security practice is in place.

**2. IT Security Control Design, Testing and Implementation**
- To gather control requirements based on regulatory guidelines and business needs
- To assist in the design of local and business-specific security controls
- To contribute to the processing of day-to-day security events, leading or supporting security investigations and escalation to relevant stakeholders (Business, Compliance, Legal, HR, IT)
- To maintain exception management workflows and to track local exceptions and their recertification
- To produce periodic KPI and KRI dashboards and distribute them to local management

**3. Coordination & Cooperation**
- To actively coordinate and cooperate with other IT and APAC Security teams to ensure best IT Security practices, deliveries and a smooth interaction
- To work closely with IT Infrastructure & Production team, as well as Business Lines IT teams for closure of non-compliant issues found within scope of responsibilityTo assist the production & follow up of Security Dashboard by APAC SecurityTo maintain an IT Security Awareness training progra