Cyber Security Compliance Manager

The role holder is responsible for supervising compliance framework updates, ensuring regulatory adherence, and conducting compliance checks and audits. The role involves establishing reporting mechanisms and providing independent assurance to management, as well as developing a compliance calendar. The duties must be carried out in accordance with the stipulated business policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the company's compliance framework updates, including key procedures and stakeholders.
• Maintain a list of non-conformant departments and liaise with them to help them become compliance compliant and escalate when necessary.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, continuous assessments, evidence collection, and maintenance.
• Establish reporting mechanisms to ensure management oversight on compliance-related matters.
• Lead the performance of compliance checks and security audits on the company's KSA, the company's group subsidiaries, and 3rd parties.
• Provide independent assurance to management via compliance assessments by assessing the target environment and reporting the gaps to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop a compliance calendar for all compliance initiatives throughout the year in alignment with Group Compliance.
• Ensure alignment with the company's KSA Compliance function through regular reporting of compliance activities and non-compliance issues.
• Ensure that non-compliance findings identified during security audits are treated effectively, compliance requirements are met, and agreed security controls are implemented within agreed timelines.
• Provide feedback to Governance on the compliance framework to ensure it remains aligned with industry best practices (e.g., ISO 27001:2013).
• Communicate non-compliance findings based on compliance assessments to stakeholders and follow up on non-compliance issues.
• Support the company's KSA Compliance Management Department with the training needs and awareness content related to compliance.
• Collaborate with the company's KSA Compliance to provide inputs, information, and reports for planned assessment initiatives related to the sectors.
• Manage cybersecurity compliance assessments for the company's group subsidiaries and define the cybersecurity index baseline and targets for sharing through the CSDG Enablement.
• Ensure Firewalls are managed and operated securely in alignment with internal and external cybersecurity requirements by conducting periodic compliance checks.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of related experience in leading the Cyber Security function for a large organization, preferably within the telecom industry.
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Additional education certifications are a plus.