GRC / Cyber Security Specialist

Join us in building the region’s #1 digital lender for SMEs, committed to Islamic Banking principles. We are on a mission to re-invent finance in the Middle East and deliver secure, compliant, and trusted digital financing solutions to underserved SMEs. We are looking for an experienced GRC / Cyber Security Specialist to design, implement, and maintain our end-to-end cyber security framework across KSA & UAE. Your role will focus on developing cyber cybersecurity strategy, policy, governance processes, and ensuring ongoing readiness with regulatory expectations. Primary responsibility will be to develop and maintain the Company’s: 1.cybersecurity strategy; 2. cybersecurity policy; 3. cybersecurity architecture; and 4. cybersecurity risk management process. Other key responsibilities include: • Continuous review of the processes and standards, test implementation as per requirements and ensure cyber security readiness and awareness across the Company. • Developing and maintaining cyber security strategy, policy and architecture. • Develop and implement cyber security risk management process and conducting cyber security risk assessments. • Ensuring that detailed security standards and procedures are established, approved and implemented. • Delivering risk-based cyber security solutions that address people, process and technology. • Developing the cyber security staff to deliver cyber security solutions in a business context. • Managing day to day cyber security activities across the Company, including: • monitoring of the cyber security activities (SOC monitoring) • monitoring of compliance with cyber security regulations, policies, standards and procedures • managing, overseeing and investigation of cyber security incidents • gathering and analyzing threat intelligence from internal and external sources • performing cybersecurity reviews • Proactively supporting other functions on cyber security, including: • performing information and system classifications • determining cybersecurity requirements for important projects • performing cybersecurity reviews • Defining and conducting the cyber security awareness programs • Measuring and reporting the KRIs and KPIs on cyber security strategy, policy compliance, standards and procedures • Develop and implement cyber security programs (e.g., awareness program, data classification program, key cyber security improvements) Apply tot his job