Third Party Cyber Assurance (TPCA) Assessor

Job Description:

The Third Party Cyber Assurance (TPCA) Assessor will conduct assessment activities for information security assessments where responsibilities span pre-assessment, assessment, and/or remediation activities for 3rd Party vendors providing services to Bank of America. The role will be responsible for coordination, conducting and providing cyber security, business continuity, and other technical domains assessment results. Will conduct investigations, reviews, and determines assessment findings/gaps as a result of an in-depth review of documents relevant to compliance with Industry standards, corporate regulations and risk frameworks. Develops and maintains assessment findings, documentation, and relevant metrics to ensure appropriate risks are documented, communication and monitored. Assists in the development of reports and metrics to effectively communication to senior leadership the associated risk around the assessment findings. Understanding and the ability to implementation of Enterprise Governance, Risk Management, Compliance framework.

Job Responsibilities

• Evaluates a 3rd Parties information security risk with a holistic lens to determine if they meet Bank of America requirements.

• Partners with 3rd Parties to ensure they are prepared for the assessment, understand the question set, and the specific evidence details required.

• Identifying and escalating risks that may affect 3rd Party information security policies, standards, and procedures that do not meet corporate requirements and be able to communicate/discuss with Global Teams such as: Subject Mater Experts (SMEs), Front Line Units (FLU)/Lines of Business (LOB)

• Managing, building, and maintaining positive internal/external relationships and routines with the global team (Third Party Assessment Team, Enterprise Vendor Managers, Third Party Portfolio Executives and Business Information Security Officers (BISOs).

• Provide related support for audit, compliance, or regulatory requests by associated quick turnaround deadlines on occasion.

Required Qualifications:

• The ability to objectively assess information from various sources and synthesize it towards making a reasoned technical judgment.

• Previous information technology/security audit/assessment experience preferred.

• Technical skills include the domains of information security and business continuity including:

• Information Security Controls (Infrastructure Security, Access Management, Application Security, Physical Security, etc.)

• IT Compliance, SOX Compliance

• Change Management

• Enterprise Risk Management

• Solid grasp of NIST, PCI, ISO, SDLC, COBIT, and ITIL standards

• Ability to review endpoint protection i.e. anomaly detection, malware protection, DLP, HIPS/HIDS.

• Ability to review cloud implementation and preventive, detective and technical controls within the cloud environment.

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both technology/development and business partners – ability to translate between these two constituencies.

• Excelling Technical writing and verbal communication skills in English

• Excellent organizational and administrative skills.

• Ability to coordinate multiple assessment activities in parallel and work both independently as well as part of an assessment team.

• Naturally inquisitive and keen to learn.

• Ability to effectively work with partners at varying knowledge and organization levels.

Desired Qualifications:

• Information Security certifications, such as ISO27002 / CISSP / CEH / CISM / CISA

• Knowledge of NIST guidelines

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.