Do you want to be part of something fun, exciting and unique, where you get the chance to protect some of the biggest financial markets in the world? At LSEG, we're so much more than just the London Stock Exchange, we're a Group of Financial Market Infrastructure companies and global trading venues with an outstanding Data & Analytics division. We do business in 190 countries, partnering with almost every major financial firm in the world, connecting the news, information, insights and systems to create possibility across the markets. Others do some of what we do, but not everything we do!
This role sits within the Capital Markets, Indices & Risk division, which includes the London Stock Exchange, LSEG FX, LSEG Risk Intelligence and FTSE Russell. We know it's the unknowns that present the most risk and our LSEG Risk Intelligence platform provides screening, due diligence, identity verification and onboarding solutions to help mitigate against current and future threats.
Across our trading venues, we can achieve a lot in a minute...
- Equities - transfer 147 million real-time market messages and process 208 thousand equity orders
- FX - facilitate $326m of foreign exchange ($470bn average daily volume), process 15.6 million orders, generate 1GB data and transfer 480 million market data messages to support 18% of the global market share
...and we do all of this with a median latency of less than 30 micro-seconds!
Overview
The role will partner with the various businesses within the division to enable alignment of business needs with security objectives. Ensuring that Security capabilities are deployed, threat actors and cyber risks identified and target state maturity is in compliance with policies, standards and capabilities. We are looking for someone to have a meaningful impact in this critical role.
You will help develop and deliver a best-in-class enterprise cyber and information security program. The team is accountable to the boards for the assessment, communication, management and closure of cyber risk. Being highly regulated businesses, we also have to deliver reporting for our regulators and stay in sync with regulatory frameworks.
To be successful in this role, you will build relationships across different internal functions, liaise with and use matrixed teams from across the Group and become a trusted partner to the business. Good communication skills and the ability to translate between technical and non-technical people are key to the role.
Main Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the cyber risk profile for the division
- Partnering with the technology organisation to successfully drive development, implementation, maintenance and improvement of all information security related activities
- Engage and manage external partners to successfully meet Information Security requirements and regulations
- Provide input to board and regulator reports
- Provide guidance for audit preparation and addressing findings
- Communicate the importance of, and promoting awareness of, information security across the business to help drive a strong security culture within Capital Markets, Indices & Risk
- Maximise value and minimise friction when onboarding cyber security tools and services
Required Skills:
- A natural curiosity, an appetite for knowledge and problem solving abilities
- Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to communicate technical information to non-technical team members
- Critical analysis and a pragmatic approach when faced with opposing requirements
- An approach that strives for excellence and optimal solutions
Benefits:
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!
We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:
- 25 days’ holiday per year
- 1 additional day off for your Birthday
- Annual wellness allowance
- Share Purchase Plan
- Medical Health Insurance
- Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
- Dental Coverage
- Life insurance
- Pillar 3 Private Pension
- Meal Vouchers
- Flexible Benefits
- Bookster
- Volunteering Events
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
