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SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $137,000.00 and $185,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

Reporting to the Director of Cyber & Operational Resilience, this role supports the 1st Line of Defense (LOD) Information Security Group Department Americas Division’s (GPDAD) and International Group Companies managing activities related to Cyber Resilience and Application Security Testing in accordance with applicable regulations, Head Office policies and industry practices for Information Security and Operational Resilience.

The Cyber Operations VP will be responsible for partnering with security teams to detect, analyze, prioritized, report, and manage the closure of vulnerabilities discovered from a combination of manual and automated penetration testing, agent-based code scans and applications scans. Focus areas include security testing vulnerabilities management, cyber resilience controls enhancements, and cyber resilience assessments from the attack lens. Additionally, improving our cyber resilience operational partnerships and collaboration to increase readiness in cyber resilience. This includes driving alignment and enhancement of cyber resilience focused controls, data, and risks. Represent Cyber & Operational Resilience by participating in information technology, data management, asset management, cybersecurity, and operational resilience management across various businesses group companies, and functions of the bank. This includes regional resilience coordination and reporting of progress to executive leadership.

Role Objectives

Vulnerability Management - manages team that will perform remediation management, reporting, and escalation of vulnerabilities identified through Cyber Resilience testing activities to include penetration testing and application security testing.

•Manage and enhance the remediation management function in partnership with the SMBC America Division and Affiliated companies.

•Assist in the analysis and remediation of findings discovered during scheduled internal and third-party vulnerability scans penetration testing, threat modeling, insider threats, exercise after action reports and cyber resilience assessments.

•Help build, design, and/or enhance dashboard reporting that provides actionable information and status report such as: vulnerabilities categorized, prioritized and action taken to manage exposure, mitigation plans and closure timeline.

•Create a “Report Card” approach for providing and reporting of applications, and group companies. Communicates the results of cyber resilience activities, will present remediation items for technical debt reduction to the business, application, security, and group company owners and prioritize efforts.

•Review and triage ad-hoc vulnerability alerts in collaboration with the Security Operations Center (SOC), Security Testing Team, and other SMEs (Subject Matter Expert), as necessary.

•Work with global security teams such as Global SOC and remediation management to identify thematic patterns and propose strategic actions to reduce risk.

•Collaborate with leadership to analyze trends, variances, and intelligence across the SMBC Groups companies and proactively presents findings backed by data and relevant authoritative sources, internal policies, procedures, etc.

•Vulnerability Tracking and Reporting: Centralized repository or tool to track identified vulnerabilities and their status.

Cyber Resilience Assessments - manages team that will perform and coordinate cyber resilience assessments, such as CRI Profile, CRR, FRB SR 20-24, and other ad hoc assessments based on industry standards and regulatory change or guidance.

•Understands changes related to regulatory, new product/initiative, processes, controls, events, issues, etc., in the IT, data management, and cybersecurity domains that may impact the operational risk profile of the bank.

•Coordinating firm-wide functional engagement and escalation of cyber security issues and delivering firm-wide awareness of cyber security issues

•Conducting internal cyber risk assessments of the Firm's mission critical information assets, associated workflows, and/or systems storing, processing, or transmitting mission critical information

•Assisting with the design of Control Action Plans to close gaps identified during cyber risk assessments and cyber activities and tracking through closure.

•Implement cyber resilience risk assessment processes to ensure that controls would be sustainable during a cyber-attack.

•Help build and develop cyber resilience assessment prioritization schedule in coordination with Governance, Risk and Compliance, Business Resilience, Operational Resilience, and other departments to assess prior assessment coverage areas and ongoing mitigation activities.

•Obtain deep understanding of the risk, controls, important business services and critical products and current cyber threat landscape.

•Analyze gaps within the proper context, business impacts and in collaboration with identified stakeholders, risk-ranked and prioritize gaps and findings.

•Develop reporting to provide management with gaps from a thematic perspective, and partner with gap owners to prioritize, develop and implement action plans.

Role Objectives continued

Cyber Resilience Control - reviews existing cyber resilience controls spread across an international matrixed firm to understand the greatest threats and capabilities during a cyber-attack.

•Manages the library of cyber resilience controls (NIST 800.53), regulations, and risk enhancements and alignment across all resilience activities to provide holistic insight into current capabilities and risk themes.

•Manages the CR Controls library and crosswalks to firm controls assessments.

•Cyber Analytics which develop quantitative processes and solutions to measure, automate, report on, and model Information Security controls.

•Identifies opportunities for control enhancements for critical and vulnerable activities.

•Develop a deep knowledge of SMBC critical services and dependencies on technology, people, processes and third parties to support business impact determination procedures to assess impact of security vulnerabilities and threats to the business.

•Manage and report on inventory of security staff certifications and training.

Contribution to Cyber & Operational Resilience Program:

•Supports the Director of Operational & Cyber Resilience in ensuring business and operational resilience controls, and processes are identified, prioritized, and mitigated. Additionally ensuring our stance in the financial market infrastructure is secure by design to manage cyber threats, either through the corruption or loss of data or outright loss of systems.

•Support resilience by design activities and contribution as SME in the Americas and regional functional routines and information security services.

•Ad hoc partnerships such as mergers and acquisitions with resilience by design lens.

•Provides ad-hoc Cyber Resilience reporting to management as requested.

•Develop specialized cyber resilience training for business, tech teams and group companies.

Qualifications and Skills

• Well-versed in Cyber Resilience to include technology, incident response and cyber risk practices with the ability to connect and align with the firm’s operational resilience processes and framework.

• 6+ years of direct work experience within the financial services industry with focus on business information security operations (BISO), operational resilience, cyber security, application security, vulnerability management, and operational or technology risk management as it relates to cyber threats.

• Working knowledge of business and cyber risk management process and controls, industry practices, and frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, ISO 27001).

• Broad knowledge of cloud technologies (Cloud certifications a plus)

• Detail oriented, with proven ability to question the status quo and apply resilience activities to enhance capabilities, as appropriate.

• Strong organizational skills, with proven ability to successfully manage multiple, concurrent priorities and team members as the program is built out.

• Ability to communicate and work effectively in a matrixed environment and across various organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important at all levels.

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Foundational knowledge of international banking laws and regulations. (FFIEC, BCBS, FCA, PRA, BoE, GDPR, etc.)

• Maintain a business cyber threat mindset to understand underlying risks and weaknesses to properly assist in mitigating and enhancement activities.

• Strong desire to continually deliver a quality and meaningful work product in a timely and efficient manner.

• BA/BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Security, Business Administration, or demonstrated relevant industry background and/or military experience.

• DRII. CISSP, CCRP, ORCS, OR, or other Cyber Incident Response or IT risk/security certifications preferred.

Additional Requirements

D&I Commitment

Responsible for fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, holding leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment through awareness and practice of equity in recruiting, developing, and promoting diverse talent.

SMBC’s employees participate in a hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.