Vacancies at Sidian Bank

JOB PURPOSE

The candidate will be responsible for working closely with the project team members and leads to help deliver strategic organizational projects efficiently. The business analysts will seek out, develop, and help implement strategic initiatives for improved efficiency and productivity and is tasked to streamline user requirements and deliver quality, on time and on budget projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES

• Scope and facilitate process engineering projects / initiatives for assigned projects portfolio in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Assist in the definition of project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Communicate to management on root cause issues causing conflict with the intended process execution and recommended solutions.
• Participating in product development and implementation by analyzing data and financial requirements for new products, channel developments or new IT investments.
• Manage Changes to project scope activities to drive framework adoption.
• Support delivery of continuous organizational process re-engineering / change strategy across business units.
• Monitor and train internal users on newly implemented systems to heighten awareness of new systems.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties / vendors.
• Provide regular progress reports to management and facilitation of stakeholder’s meetings and workshops.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

• Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with all stakeholders.
• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of status reports to all stakeholders.
• Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.
• Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems
• Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration, and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations

DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY

• Review scope of work and project initiation documents.
• Review user requirements for completeness.
• Review the impact and approve change requests during the project cycle.
• Review the UAT pass rate as per the exit criteria for the project Go live.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• University degree in Computer Science / Information Technology/ Project Management related field with minimum of Second-Class Honors, Upper Division.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 2 years in a Projects Management Position or a related field.
• 3+ years of proven experience in an analytics and systems development capacity
• Experience in business analysis or a related role.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Excellent external and internal communication skills.
• Aptitude for fostering positive relationships
• Teamwork and leadership skills
• Solid organizational skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proven analytical abilities
• Practical experience generating process documentation and reports
• Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio
• Proven capabilities in project and user-testing management
• Proven development of innovative and impactful systems solutions
• Extensive experience with data visualization
• Highly proficient technical writing capabilities

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

• Project Management professional (PMP/PRINCE II certification)

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JOB PURPOSE

The role is responsible for overseeing the security framework to ensure security controls are in place in the bank, direct the cyber security strategy, identify threat scenarios, quantify risks and work with stakeholders to ensure effective mitigation controls are in place and ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Governance and Compliance
• Cyber Security Assessment
• Monitoring and Review of Systems
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Coordination
• Incidences Management
• Reporting

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Governance and Compliance:

• Fraud Risk and IT Security assessments on new initiatives/ business projects.
• Review of the IT Risk Governance Framework and update.
• Track closure of the ICT audit issues as raised by the auditors
• Overseeing and implementing the bank’s cyber security program and enforcing the cyber security policy/ framework and ensure up-to- date information security policies and standards are in place including the cyber risk management plan.
• Review the compliance level to the bank’  ICT policies on a regular basis to ensure completeness and consistency with the current and prospective business activities.
• Assist to develop an information Security awareness program, prepare curriculum for different set of users and execute the program.

Cyber Security Assessment:

• Create and track investigations/analysis of events to resolution.
• Consistently provide recommendations on tuning of the security tools such as Dacktrace, Checkpoint, Netguardian, Web application Firewall, McAfee rules to ensure increased efficiency and reliability on its output.
• Provide recommendations that will assist in revision of the Bank’s policies and procedures on monitoring.
• Overseeing/ Testing software controls and system launches and upgrades and IT risk assessments.
• Conduct oversight over and provide directions to any third-party service provider contracted to perform operational security functions such as information security monitoring, testing and threat intelligence.
• Ensure the Bank maintains a current enterprise -wide knowledge base of its users, devices, application and their relationships, including but now limited to:
• Software and hardware asset inventory
•  Network maps (including boundaries, traffic and data flow); and
• Network utilization and performance data
• Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments, research/ evaluate emerging security threats and ways to manage them.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Coordination:

• Disaster recovery coordination. Maintain the IT Disaster Recovery Plan including annual reviews.
• Oversee the regular testing of the plan and update for major changes in hardware, applications, business and regulatory requirements accordingly.
• Coordinate testing and reporting of data backup restorations.
• Ensure adequate backups of critical IT systems and data in line with predetermined recovery objectives (e.g. real time back up of changes made to critical data) are carried out to a site that is unlikely to be affected by a disaster event at the main processing site.
• Ensure the roles and responsibilities of managing cyber risks, including in emergency or crisis decision-making, are clearly defined, documented and communicated to relevant staff.
• Put in place BCP and disaster recovery test plans to ensure that the Bank can continue to function and meet its regulatory obligations in the event of an unforeseen circumstances.

 Monitoring and Review of Systems:

• Monitor security events received from the Bank’s security tools on applicable perimeter devices, systems, databases and servers for potential attacks, suspicious or anomalous activities.
• Analyze and correlate network traffic and system/application logs to prioritize and differentiate between potential incidents and false alarms.
• Assist in identifying new solutions to improve the ISO monitoring role in threat identification, detections and response capabilities.
• Strengthen the monitoring of system transactions integrity and events by review of the System audit logs and Escalation of noted anomalies.
• Analyze and document business process objectives and design to identify required information systems controls.
• Ensures vulnerabilities are managed by directing periodic vulnerability scans of servers connected to Sidian Bank networks

Incidences Management:

• Escalate and report on incidents, potential gaps or risks as observed during monitoring activities.
• Document the security breaches and measure the damage caused.

Reporting:

• Reporting to the Supervisor:
• Share a monthly report on the status of the backup and restoration tests conducted on all the critical systems.
• Prepare a monthly report on privilege access management and bank wide compliance to the user access rights.
• Assist in reporting to the CEO, at least weekly, on the following:
•  Status of the Sidian cyber security posture upon reviewing and analyzing  the security logs generated from different security devices within the bank.
• Assist in monthly and quarterly reporting on the bank’s cybersecurity posture to senior management and the Board.
• Assist in  quarterly reporting to the board on the exceptions noted in user access management likely to impact the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of information
• Any other duties as deemed necessary by the supervisor.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer science, Cybersecurity, business, or related fields
• Strong knowledge of Information Security related frameworks/ Regulations such as, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, NIST Cyber Security Framework, Cobit, FFIEC CAT, GLBA, SOX, NYDFS 500, etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 2 years of Banking or Information Technology Experience
• Knowledgeable in IT operations
• Proficient in IS Security
• Knowledge on Data Protection laws & General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is an added advantage