Director of Compliance

Full Time
Atlanta, GA 30328
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Job description
The Director, Cyber Compliance will report to the Associate Vice President, Cybersecurity. This individual will be responsible for leading a team of professionals in establishing and maintaining cybersecurity compliance programs across the company, including new ventures and acquisitions. Responsibilities include governance of cybersecurity policies and procedures, management of control frameworks and attestations, facilitation of internal and external audits, identification and evaluation of compliance risk, and reporting the status of cybersecurity compliance programs to executive leadership.

This individual will lead a team of six resources that will perform day to day governance of cybersecurity compliance in coordination with technology and process owners. This individual will be responsible for understanding the cybersecurity compliance strategy and objectives and engaging various teams across the organization to drive action to meet those objectives.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills, adjusting the level of detail and summarization as appropriate for the audience. Successful candidates will also possess a blend of general technology, security, and audit competencies with an emphasis on cybersecurity controls, critical thinking, and a desire to drive efforts to their conclusion as needed.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions


  • Establishes and maintains security compliance strategy in accordance with external requirements and business objectives.
  • Partners with business and Technology stakeholders to ensure alignment on security compliance strategy and initiatives.
  • Directs planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new security compliance programs.
  • Coordinates and directs facilitation of internal and external audits to provide assurance and certification of existing security compliance obligations.
  • Enhances, maintains, and champions engagement with the business and the Technology organization to monitor and manage visibility to security compliance gaps and status of remediation.
  • Directs routine, ongoing processes to formalize, track, and report security compliance risks across varying levels of stakeholders, including risk owners and executive leadership.
  • Directs routine governance of enterprise information security policies, including collaboration across business units.
  • Establishes and directs governance of security controls that align with compliance frameworks required to support business operations and enable sales.
  • Directs process for control owners to routinely attest to the design and operating effectiveness of control activities supporting security compliance objectives.
  • Creates routine and ad hoc presentations for executive leadership to ensure awareness and alignment on security compliance programs and initiatives and support key security decisions.
  • Performs project management and change management duties, as assigned.
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.



Minimum


  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 22 years' experience in a related field
  • 5+ years' experience in a management or leadership role
  • 10+ years of experience working in information security controls, information technology audit, or security risk management.
  • At least 5 years of leadership experience, including coaching, consensus building, and ability to effectively manage resources to address competing priorities.
  • Experience creating executive presentations.
  • Experience in creating business cases to obtain funding and resource approval.
  • Experience escalating risk issues to senior technology or company leadership.
  • Ability to manage across functional teams to achieve desired business results.
  • Ability to translate a business agenda into technology terms and vice versa.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills.
  • Ability to summarize and communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Strong understanding and experience with information security technologies.
  • Ability to adjust to multiple demands, changing priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change, while multitasking effectively.



Preferred


  • Degree in related discipline strongly desired (e.g., Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, etc.)
  • Experience in industry desired
  • Professional services/Big Four consulting background. Fortune 500 company experience. Telecom/Cable industry experience. At least one relevant industry certification - CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA.



The Director, Cyber Compliance will report to the Associate Vice President, Cybersecurity. This individual will be responsible for leading a team of professionals in establishing and maintaining cybersecurity compliance programs across the company, including new ventures and acquisitions. Responsibilities include governance of cybersecurity policies and procedures, management of control frameworks and attestations, facilitation of internal and external audits, identification and evaluation of compliance risk, and reporting the status of cybersecurity compliance programs to executive leadership.

This individual will lead a team of six resources that will perform day to day governance of cybersecurity compliance in coordination with technology and process owners. This individual will be responsible for understanding the cybersecurity compliance strategy and objectives and engaging various teams across the organization to drive action to meet those objectives.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills, adjusting the level of detail and summarization as appropriate for the audience. Successful candidates will also possess a blend of general technology, security, and audit competencies with an emphasis on cybersecurity controls, critical thinking, and a desire to drive efforts to their conclusion as needed.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions


  • Establishes and maintains security compliance strategy in accordance with external requirements and business objectives.
  • Partners with business and Technology stakeholders to ensure alignment on security compliance strategy and initiatives.
  • Directs planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new security compliance programs.
  • Coordinates and directs facilitation of internal and external audits to provide assurance and certification of existing security compliance obligations.
  • Enhances, maintains, and champions engagement with the business and the Technology organization to monitor and manage visibility to security compliance gaps and status of remediation.
  • Directs routine, ongoing processes to formalize, track, and report security compliance risks across varying levels of stakeholders, including risk owners and executive leadership.
  • Directs routine governance of enterprise information security policies, including collaboration across business units.
  • Establishes and directs governance of security controls that align with compliance frameworks required to support business operations and enable sales.
  • Directs process for control owners to routinely attest to the design and operating effectiveness of control activities supporting security compliance objectives.
  • Creates routine and ad hoc presentations for executive leadership to ensure awareness and alignment on security compliance programs and initiatives and support key security decisions.
  • Performs project management and change management duties, as assigned.
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.



Minimum


  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 22 years' experience in a related field
  • 5+ years' experience in a management or leadership role
  • 10+ years of experience working in information security controls, information technology audit, or security risk management.
  • At least 5 years of leadership experience, including coaching, consensus building, and ability to effectively manage resources to address competing priorities.
  • Experience creating executive presentations.
  • Experience in creating business cases to obtain funding and resource approval.
  • Experience escalating risk issues to senior technology or company leadership.
  • Ability to manage across functional teams to achieve desired business results.
  • Ability to translate a business agenda into technology terms and vice versa.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills.
  • Ability to summarize and communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Strong understanding and experience with information security technologies.
  • Ability to adjust to multiple demands, changing priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change, while multitasking effectively.



Preferred


  • Degree in related discipline strongly desired (e.g., Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, etc.)
  • Experience in industry desired
  • Professional services/Big Four consulting background. Fortune 500 company experience. Telecom/Cable industry experience. At least one relevant industry certification - CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA.



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