Security Culture & Enablement Specialist - Edinburgh
8 days ago
Edinburgh
Job Description At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs: • interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them., • Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers. Working as a part of the Governance and Assurance team, they’re committed to delivering a global, scalable and efficient service, providing expertise to enable the whole company to operate safely and securely for our customers, clients, our people and shareholders. About the Role As a Security Culture and Enablement Specialist, you will play a key role in strengthening the organisation’s security culture by engaging proactively with business teams across our organisation. You will build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, ensuring that secure behaviours and risk-aware decision making are embedded into everyday processes and client-servicing activities. Key Responsibilities • Work closely with SMEs within Security & the business to ensure awareness needs are identified and met appropriately., • Ensure awareness content aligns with Information and Cyber Security Policy, Standards and wider governance expectations., • Lead a proactive and forward-looking security culture and behaviour programme; which provides actionable stakeholder insight to influence security strategy and remediation activity., • Deliver targeted education and communication activities that are tailored to stakeholder needs and reflect the evolving threat landscape. The ideal candidate will possess the following: • Strong grasp of risk management principles and ideally, how they’re applied in financial services environments., • Ability to interpret diverse data sources and draw robust risk-based conclusions., • Understanding of behavioural change, human risk, or organisational culture principles., • Able to build productive relationships and trust with internal and external stakeholders. Our benefits There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits ___ Our business Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do ___. An inclusive way of working Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business. ___, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.