Job ID: 24700
Location: Bukit Jalil KL, MY
Area of interest: Technology
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 4 Apr 2025

JOB SUMMARY

The Third Party Security Risk (TPSR) team, as part of the Chief Information Security Office (CISO), involves evaluating the security practices and protocols of various vendors delivering service to the Bank. The primary responsibility is to conduct thorough security assessments, identify potential risks, and ensure compliance with the bank’s security standards. This role is critical in safeguarding the bank’s data and maintaining robust security measures across all third-party engagements.’
If you’re searching for a career with high visibility, a steep learning curve and the opportunity to change the future of a global business, you’ve found it. Join our Third Party Security Risk (TPSR) team, and you’ll be given the resources you need to protect our most valuable assets – our people and our products. Get ready to pioneer better, faster and safer ways to enhance our resilience against threats while keeping our business moving forward.
About our Technology & Operations Team
Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We’re a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today

ABOUT STANDARD CHARTERED

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively perform third party security reviews and ensure quality and timely execution. Portfolio includes reviewing Cloud Service Providers (CSP), global technology, Functions (e.g. Legal, Finance, Property etc) third parties and performing technical deep dive assessments (where applicable) and activities related to TPSR process. The main responsibilities will be to support the Head of Third Party Security Risk in delivering the third party security risk program within the Bank.
• Manage a register of third party security risks and ensure that deficiencies are mitigated.
• Support any training and awareness initiatives relating to third party security risk.
• Make timely and sound judgments, and identify clear solutions from broad, complex or ambiguous situations.
• Interact with all levels of management within the Bank while performing third party security reviews of service providers across all of the Bank’s markets.
• Effectively communicate the security risks to internal and external stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate and manage relationships with stakeholders globally.
• Diligently provide weekly and ad hoc reporting on status of reviews.
• Support any training and awareness initiatives relating to third party security risk.
• Support and assist in third party program improvement initiatives.
• Assist in the development of new/amended processes, innovative ways of working and reviewing risk and control assessments.
• Assist in the forward planning and prioritisation of vendor assessments or requests from business stakeholders, and resource allocations.
• Maintain a register of third party security risks and ensure that deficiencies are mitigated.
• Support the Head of TPSR to ensure compliance with relevant regulations covering third party security risk.
• Monitor and report on third party security risk compliance to stakeholders.
• Remain current on industry trends and regulatory requirements related to third party information security

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor degree or above from an accredited college/university in an appropriate field.
• Strong communication skills in English
• Ideally 3 years of experience in information security / IT auditing, with Big 4 and/or Banking & Financial services experience
• Experience in third party audits is a plus, but understanding of auditing standards, compliance, risk assessment and internal control frameworks is a requirement.
• Familiarity with working in a MNC or cross-cultural setting.
• Excellent written and interpersonal skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Ability to draft reports that clearly communicate observations and risks would be required.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, and ability to interact at all levels across an organisation.
• Strong audit project organisation and management skills.
• Ability to multitask and ensure that all key priorities are delivered as per agreed timelines.
• Preferable certifications (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, CISA)
• Knowledge of security frameworks (e.g. COBIT, ISF, COSO), standards (e.g. ISO, NIST, CIS), information security principles, security architecture and regulatory requirements will be a plus.
• Competency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, SharePoint).