Manager, Cyber Security (Third Party Risk)

About the role

At Capital One, you will help consult on initiatives, programs, and projects to raise their game in Information Security. You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of risk and security, but also willing to know when to pull in experts and escalate. You collaborate and innovate with other teams within Capital One to push the envelope. The associate will support Card’s Third Party Risk Management function from a Cyber lens. The associate will partner with Card leaders, Third Party Managers, risk management functions, and various cyber teams to provide sound risk consulting and influence business decisions that reduce or eliminate risk to Capital One. You will challenge and innovate within your team to drive process improvements to elevate program efficiency. Security is essential to what we do here, from protecting our customers to our associates. Holding our third parties to the same security bar is essential.

Responsibilities

• Act as a central Information Security point of contact to identify and mitigate Third Party risk in the Card line of business
• Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders
• Proactively identify information security risk and partner with key stakeholders to reduce or eliminate Third Party risk
• Coordinate and execute proactive consulting to both internal and external teams as it relates to third party information security risk
• Support business related projects and initiatives and influence customers to make solid business decisions
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership within Cyber and other stakeholders on the overall Third Party Management health and risk environment
• Influence customers to leverage security capabilities and solutions to shift and integrate security to the left in the vendor procurement and contract renewal processes
• Escalate and manage cyber security risk introduced by Capital One Third Parties
• Provide ad hoc support on special departmental goals, objectives, and initiatives

Skills

• Desire to work in a very fast moving, forward leaning, and modern computing environment
• Strong desire to continually learn about new technologies
• Strong conceptual thinking and communication skills
• Ability to work well under minimal supervision
• Demonstrated team-oriented professional with interpersonal skills and the ability to interface effectively with a broad range of people and roles, including upper management, IT leaders, and external third parties
• Maintain calmness and clarity of thought under pressure and ability to maintain confidentiality
• Strong ability to analyze information and data