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• Lead the Bank’s enterprise insider threat program, defining strategy, governance, and operating model to proactively identify, assess, mitigate, and prevent insider-driven risk.
• Build a risk-based approach to insider threat, strengthening the Bank’s ability to anticipate emerging threats, close control gaps, and enhance operational resilience.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of emerging insider risks, including employee-enabled fraud, credential misuse, data exfiltration, collusion, third-party insider risk, and cyber-enabled activity.
• Define and lead the enterprise insider threat strategy and long-term roadmap, establishing governance structures, escalation protocols, and decision-making forums.
• Drive the maturation of capabilities from reactive investigations to proactive, intelligence-led prevention across cyber, fraud, financial crimes, corporate security, operations, legal, global investigations, risk, privacy, and human resources.
• Develop and optimize insider threat analytics, tools, and capabilities to support scalable, intelligence-driven risk detection and reporting.
• Own the end-to-end insider threat control framework, including prevention rules, risk-based detection models, behavioral analytics, investigative protocols, case management standards, and escalation processes.
• Identify systemic control gaps and drive remediation across identity and access management, privileged access, data protection, fraud controls, vendor access, and critical operations.
• Ensure adherence to the Bank’s Risk Appetite Framework and support regulatory exams, audits, and governance reviews.
• Promote and support the Bank’s risk culture, drive continuous improvement, and develop high-performance talent across risk and business functions.

• 10+ years in a global systemically important bank (GSIB), large financial institution, intelligence agency, law enforcement, military, or critical infrastructure environment.
• Experience in leading enterprise-side or global risk or security programs with a proven track record building or transforming insider threat, cyber, fraud, or security capabilities.
• Deep experience managing complex investigations involving employees, contractors, third parties, cyber incidents, fraud activity, or data misuse.
• Strong knowledge in at least one of the following areas: insider threat, cybersecurity, fraud, financial crime, investigations, operational risk, or enterprise security.
• Understanding of banking operations, conduct risk, and financial crime typologies, and regulatory expectations related to cyber, fraud, and operational resilience.
• Working knowledge of analytics, detection models, and insider threat tools.
• Ability to lead global distributed teams and build multidisciplinary capabilities.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, high judgment, discretion, and ability to translate risk signals into actionable insights.
• Preferred professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CFE, CAMS, CPP, GIAC, CISA, or CRISC.
• Background in law enforcement, intelligence, or national security organizations and an established external network across industry, law enforcement, and intelligence communities.

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