Tech and Cyber Controls Assurance Manager

Portugal Job Openings

KANTAR

Porto

FULL TIME

October 7, 2024

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

Job Description

We continue to and enhance the Kantar Technology and Cyber Risk and Control framework. Controls Assurance aims to deliver actionable data to leadership and control owners, empowering colleagues to make informed decisions.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Tech and Cyber Risk and Assurance, and will oversee the Technology Controls Library, offering expert guidance to key stakeholders based on analytical insights and outcomes related to the control environment’s operation. This role ultimately supports the development and maturity of the risk and control profile!

What you’ll be doing:

Take charge of, coordinate, and manage various control oversight activities, including delivering control attestations and executing the annual control testing schedule.
Investigate, innovate, and enhance current practices.
Organize and lead responses to attestation and assurance demands.
Offer consultancy and expertise on Control Design and Operating practices.
Advise and assist key stakeholders in making informed, risk-based decisions.
Engage actively in designated Learning and Development plans to sustain and expand expertise.

We need you to have:

Operates independently to plan, organize, prioritize, and oversee activities to achieve business goals efficiently.
Communicates proficiently and can effectively challenge and support Key Stakeholders in fulfilling their risk management responsibilities.
Takes initiative to monitor, interpret, and understand policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
Delves into problems comprehensively, highlights the consequences of inaction, and assists clients in recognizing and articulating the value of solutions. Strives to understand the client’s situation, explores issues and solutions, and designs effective resolutions.
Identifies, evaluates, prioritizes, and manages risks. Analyzes potential solutions and provides recommendations based on expected benefits, costs, and overall value for key stakeholders, typically with some guidance.
Demonstrates advanced understanding of business context, needs, rules, architecture, and organizational structure. Experienced in assurance activities, including control testing of key controls.
Conducts review, assessment, and remediation of access management controls.
Knowledgeable about cyber-related risks and issues, leveraging the NIST framework.
Skilled in reviewing policies, standards, and processes, and ensuring first line of defense teams adhere to them.
Relevant certifications such as CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP or be willing to work towards this.

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Country

Portugal

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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