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 $153,000.00 and $196,000.00. 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 DescriptionWe are seeking a passionate, collaborative, and value-driven Vice President of Cyber Resilience to lead our efforts in ensuring the bank's operational readiness and resilience against cyber threats and incidents. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in global business resilience, cyber security remediation management, and cyber resilience risk and controls management, with a strong understanding of global industry standards and best practices.
Role ObjectivesVulnerability Remediation Management:
• Manage a team responsible for cyber resilience remediation management, reporting, and escalation of vulnerabilities identified through Cyber Resilience testing activities, including penetration testing, application security testing, cyber exercise after action, cyber incident after action, and threat modeling assessments.
• Enhance the remediation management function in partnership with the SMBC America Division and Affiliated companies.
• Assist in the analysis and remediation of findings from internal and external vulnerability scans and penetration testing, threat modeling, threats, exercise after-action reports, and cyber resilience assessments.
• Develop and enhance dashboard reporting that provides actionable information on vulnerabilities, mitigation plans, and closure timelines.
• Create a "Report Card" approach for reporting on applications and group companies, presenting remediation items for technical debt reduction to business, application, security, and group company owners.
• Review and triage ad-hoc vulnerability alerts in collaboration with the Security Operations Center (SOC), Security Testing Team, and other Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• Collaborate with global security teams to identify thematic patterns and propose strategic actions to reduce risk.
• Analyze trends, variances, and intelligence across the SMBC Group companies, presenting findings backed by data and relevant authoritative sources.
• Maintain a centralized repository or tool to track identified vulnerabilities and their status.
Cyber Resilience Assessments:
• Manage a team that performs and coordinates cyber resilience assessments, such as CRI Profile, CRR, FRB SR 20-24, and other ad hoc assessments based on industry standards and regulatory guidance.
• Understand changes related to regulatory, new product/initiative, processes, controls, events, issues, etc., in IT, data management, and cybersecurity domains impacting the bank's operational risk profile.
• Coordinate firm-wide functional engagement and escalation of cybersecurity issues, delivering firm-wide awareness.
• Conduct internal cyber risk assessments of the firm's mission-critical information assets and associated workflows.
• Assist in designing Control Action Plans to close gaps identified during cyber risk assessments and track them through closure.
• Implement cyber resilience risk assessment processes to ensure controls' sustainability during a cyber-attack.
• Develop a cyber resilience assessment prioritization schedule in coordination with Governance, Risk and Compliance, Business Resilience, Operational Resilience, CISO, IT, and other departments.
• Obtain a deep understanding of risks, controls, important business services, critical products, and the current cyber threat landscape.
• Analyze gaps within the proper context, business impacts, and collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize gaps and findings.
• Develop reporting to provide management with thematic gap analysis and partner with gap owners to implement action plans.
Cyber Resilience Controls:
• Review existing cyber resilience controls across the international firm to understand the greatest threats and capabilities during a cyber-attack.
• Manage the library of cyber resilience controls (NIST 800-53), regulations, and risk enhancements, ensuring alignment across all resilience activities.
• Manage the CR Controls library and crosswalks to firm controls assessments.
• Develop quantitative processes and solutions to measure, automate, report on, and model Information Security controls.
• Identify opportunities for control enhancements for critical and vulnerable activities.
• Develop deep knowledge of SMBC critical services and dependencies on technology, people, processes, and third parties to support business impact determination procedures.
• Manage and report on the inventory of security staff certifications and training.
Contribution to Cyber & Operational Resilience Program:
• Support the Director of Cyber & Operational Resilience in ensuring business and operational resilience controls and processes are prioritized and mitigated.
• Ensure our stance in the financial market infrastructure is secure by design to manage cyber threats, through corruption, data loss, or system loss.
• Support resilience by design activities and contribute as an SME in the Americas and regional functional routines.
• Engage in ad hoc partnerships such as mergers and acquisitions with a resilience by design lens.
• Provide ad-hoc Cyber Resilience reporting to management as requested.
• Develop specialized cyber resilience training for business, tech teams, and group companies.
• 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.
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.