Information Security Officer at Advans La Fayette Microfinance Bank

Advans La Fayette Microfinance Bank is an international recognised microfinance bank, provides its customers with a full variety of financial services and payment options, including savings accounts, current accounts, and fixed deposit accounts. La Fayette Microfinance Bank is completely client-oriented, providing considerable freedom, independence, and financial security to assist clients stay dedicated to their short and long-term financial goals.

Title: Information Security Officer

Location: Ibadan, Oyo

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

The Information Security Officer (CISO) will be responsible for protecting the Bank’s IT resources and information assets by:

• Ensuring strategic alignment of information security in support of business objectives;
• Ensuring availability, confidentiality, integrity, audit ability of the Bank’s information systems;
• Ensuring the continued availability of the Bank’s information systems;
• Ensuring reduction of adverse impacts on the Bank’s business operations to an acceptable level;
• Ensuring conformity of applicable laws, regulations and standards;
• Preventing non-repudiation of computer-based activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Information Security Governance: Establish and maintain a framework to assure that information security strategies are aligned with business objectives and consistent with applicable laws and regulations.
• Liaise with CHRM to ensure that each job description include information security governance activities
• Identify current and potential legal and regulatory issues affecting information security and assess their impact on the Bank.
• Establish and maintain information security policies that support business goals and objectives.
• Risk Management: Identify and manage information security risks to achieve business objectives:
• Develop systematic, analytical and continuous risk management processes.
• Ensure that risk identification, analysis and mitigation activities are integrated into projects and process life cycle.
• Identify and analyze risks through suitable and recommended methods
• Information Security Programme Management: Design, elaborate and manage information security programme to implement the information security governance framework.
• Establish and maintain plans to implement the information security governance framework.
• Manage the information security budget in implementing the information security programme.
• Information Security Management: Oversee and direct information security activities to execute the information security programme.
• Ensure that the rules of use for information systems and the administrative procedures for information systems comply with the Bank’s information security policies.
• Ensure that services provided by other enterprises, including outsourced providers are consistent with established information security policies.
• Response Management: Establish and manage capability to respond to and recover from disruptive and destructive information systems events:
• Design, elaborate and implement processes for detecting, identifying and analyzing security-related events.
• Develop response and recovery plans including organizing, training, and equipping teams.
• Ensure periodic testing of the response and recovery plans where appropriate.
• Coordinate and manage activities related to the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) including the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).
• Coordinate the maintenance of the BCP/DRP documentation.
• Liaise with all resources that intervene in the Bank’s BCP: Senior Management, Directors and Managers, Staff, Consultants, vendors and auditors
• Any other duties reasonably requested by CIO.

Qualifications

• Interested candidates should possess a B.Sc Degree with at least 3 years experience.

Deadline: 17th November, 2023.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Cover Letter (as body of email) to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.