Cyber Business Integration Lead

Job Overview

Job Title: Cyber Business Integration Lead
Engagement Type: 6-Month Contract (Potential for Extension)
Location: London, Birmingham, or Sheffield, UK (Hybrid: 3 days per week onsite)

Role Purpose

The Cyber Business Integration Lead serves as the primary liaison between global cybersecurity functions and regional business lines. This role ensures business strategies align with cyber priorities, embeds security controls into business initiatives from concept to launch, and oversees cyber transformation, risk management, and remediation projects across the region.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Alignment & Business Partnership

Act as the primary Cyber Subject Matter Expert (SME) and point of contact for the business unit/region.
Gather and consolidate regional requirements to feed into annual planning, global cyber initiatives, and strategic roadmap development.
Support Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) projects as the dedicated Cyber SME.
Promote global cybersecurity innovations and transformation initiatives across local business units.

Security Consultancy & Solution Architecture

Provide end-to-end security consultancy for UK initiatives from concept through launch, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity architecture and controls.
Partner with Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering teams to ensure business-led transformations follow established security design principles.
Identify and eliminate security roadblocks affecting core projects, working with technology teams to ensure proper prioritization.

Risk Management, Governance & Oversight

Maintain oversight of regional cyber risk profiles, risk appetites, incidents, and control effectiveness, challenging stakeholders when risk appetites are breached.
Represent Cybersecurity in regional business risk forums (e.g., IT RCMMs, CEMMs, RMMs).
Partner with risk and control teams to track and report KPIs, KRIs, and KCIs for regulators, executive leadership, and external stakeholders.
Participate in global cybersecurity communities (control squads, TRCB, metrics alignment) to ensure international consistency and control effectiveness.

Transformation & Remediation Delivery

Oversee the end-to-end rollout ("last mile" delivery) of global cyber transformation programs across the region, ensuring benefits realization.
Lead planning, delivery oversight, and Management Information (MI) reporting for regional remediation projects originating from country gap assessments.
Track, prioritize, and report on business-critical cybersecurity engagements, escalating operational or technical delivery challenges as needed.
Serve as primary lead for assigned cybersecurity control domains, staying informed on industry best practices and peer bank technologies.Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy