Security Controls Analyst

Business Unit:  Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £28,800 - 43,200 per annum
Location:  UK Remote / UK Hybrid – Occasional travel to London/Glasgow
Contract type: Permanent – Full Time

Live up to your potential. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

Working in Cyber Security is a big deal as we continue to play a key role in keeping Virgin Money safe. We’re on an exciting journey with a big vision as we grow our team to enhance our security and cyber operations. We’ll be working to protect against security threats to Virgin Money and the financial services sector.  You’ll play an important role in helping us understand the security landscape so we can protect ourselves from risk.  This helps to inform our Cyber Strategy, Culture and Education work as well as direct investments to mitigate risks and prevent and detect attacks.

The Control Tower Team supports the organisation’s overall Cyber Security capabilities specifically focusing on enhancing our security posture against attacks to ensure we remain available to customer and colleagues.

What you’ll be doing

• This is an ideal role for someone with basic security knowledge to step into a career in Cyber Security.
• Support in the development and delivery of new cyber security controls with internal security control SMEs.
• Conduct security control testing.
• Raise awareness of cyber risks and control best practices among employees at all levels of the organisation to further embed secure by design mindset.
• Work closely with the Risk, Compliance and Regulatory teams to ensure regulatory compliance, including technical control compliance.
• Provide advice and support risk management responses, including risk and audit requests, regulatory requirement assessments and third-party security control capability requests.

We need you to have

Knowledge of cyber security governance frameworks, policies, and procedures
Understanding of cyber security risk management principles and practices.
Awareness of emerging cyber security trends, threats, and technologies.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Familiarity with cyber security frameworks and methodologies, such as NIST, COBIT, CIS (Center for Internet Security) Controls
• Knowledge of security technologies, tools, and solutions used in cybersecurity programs.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we’ll interview candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for the role they applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Points to Note: It’s a good idea to let your current people leader know if you are going to apply for an internal role, so they can support your application, we always recommend you share your plans with them.

Internal - If you’re interested in this opportunity, we recommend that you get in touch with Sandra Loughran who’ll be able to tell you all about the role which will help you make a great application.

Now the legal bit
Please note that some of our legacy contracts are non-flexible therefore, if you move to a new role or make a change to your existing terms, you’ll move onto our standard flexible contract, 8am - 8pm Monday to Saturday.

If you successfully secure a new role, the salary and notice period you'll be offered will be in line with our reward and policy guidance. Not sure what this would mean for you, and want to know more? Contact Talent Acquisition, careers@virginmoney.com or feel free to start a conversation with HaRi our new HR Virtual Agent on MS Teams to help with your questions.