Vp of Information

**VP of Information & Cyber Security, Singapore**

Circles.Life is not just Your digital telco provider. Since our launch, we revolutionised the telco industry by seamlessly integrating both telco and digital lifestyle services on our Circles-X OS platform. Over the past years, we have captured more than 5% market share in Singapore, launched in Australia and Taiwan while attaining record breaking CSAT and NPS (+50). We were voted the Top Employer in Digital Telco and also became an accredited winner in showcasing excellence in workplace culture in 2019.
Having established a presence in Indonesia since 2020, we continue to grow to become the biggest and most loved brand.

The **VP of Information & Cyber Security **is a crucial leadership role that provides strategic and tactical guidance to all things related Information and Cyber Security.

You will play a key and integral role encompassing and intersecting across the entire organization to ensure protection of information and keeping all our assets secure from any external and internal threat.

This provides a unique opportunity to work across all teams ranging from software engineering, product management, finance for budgeting and effective cost management and People and Culture teams.

If you are up to the challenge then this is for you.

**Responsibilities**
- Reviews and approves all technical designs and implementation plans to ensure compliance.
- Develops strategies and provides support for initiatives to continuously improve enterprise data security and assists in the development and regular testing of the enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
- Mitigate security related risks and work with appropriate managers to implement corrective actions. Initiates, participates in andor lead audits to identify areas of vulnerability, and oversee the deployment, use, and maintenance of threat and vulnerability tools, including intrusion detection prevention, firewall, virus protection, encryption, user authentication, and audit logs.
- Ensures that the architectural framework meets the County's information security needs.
- Manage, lead and hire a world-class Security and IT team that meets the needs of a dynamic and scaling organization
- Serve as a functional and strategic point person between the product and engineering teams, and the security team.
- Provide strategic and tactical vision, and execution, focused on incident prevention, detection and response
- Guide technical development of security tools and product features in order to reduce security risk across the company
- Advise Founders, company leadership and all technical stakeholders on security issues and threats and take appropriate action in a timely manner working in a collaborative fashion
- Identify, track, and communicate detailed metrics indicating overall security risk factors
- Perform IT security risk assessments and report on ways to minimize threats
- Oversee security audits of systems, including SOC 1 & 2 certification processes and other security certification/assessments, and perform deep-dive analyses to address vulnerabilities and threat assessments.
- Monitor vulnerabilities and threats in network, host, and cloud systems
- Conduct real-time threat and impact analysis
- Maintain a current understanding of the threat landscape for the industry
- Drive security risk decisions and influence technical architecture
- Manage and develop information awareness training for the company

**Requirements**:

- Demonstrated experience representing an organization's information security program in presentations and discussions with customers, partners and other external parties
- Experience implementing controls and mitigating risks related to GDPR, PCI, and other information security and data privacy standards
- Experience implementing cloud security technologies, including encryption, network security, intrusion detection, and digital forensics
- Well-versed in the rapidly evolving threat landscape with a strategic mindset to mitigate threats
- Outstanding communication skills with an ability to build strong narratives to highlight the importance of security to employees internally and customers/shareholders externally, including both technical and non-technical audiences
- Fintech security experience a plus
- Education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science/Engineering or a job related field of study.
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation required.
- Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, and establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, departments and the general public.

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