Location: London. Must be willing to travel internationally and work across time zones
About the team and the role:
We are seeking a strategic and experienced leader to join our team as the Deputy CISO - International. Reporting directly to the CISO and partnering with our US-based Deputy CISO, this role provides senior cybersecurity leadership across business units in more than 20 countries. You will be responsible for adapting and executing global cybersecurity strategy across diverse regulatory environments, managing region-specific risks, leading integration efforts for newly acquired companies, and ensuring a consistent international security posture. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strategic vision and operational agility.
Responsibilities:
International Program Leadership & Strategy:
- Develop trusted relationships with the business units across 20+ countries, gaining insights into their specific needs and risks, and effectively translating our global cyber strategy to align with those unique requirements.
- Provide regional cybersecurity leadership,, reporting directly to the CISO, to ensure alignment with the overall cybersecurity strategy and objectives.
- Enhance and align the comprehensive international cybersecurity program with the overall strategy, ensuring continuous improvement and adherence to guidance from the CISO and Cybersecurity leadership.
- Translate corporate security policies and standards into actionable, region-specific controls and practices.
- Serve as the primary cybersecurity point of contact and subject matter expert for all international business leaders and stakeholders.
- Establish and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the effectiveness of the international security program.
- Own the international cybersecurity risk register and regularly assess and report risk posture to CISO and executive leadership.
- Ensure compliance with international regulatory and privacy requirements, including GDPR, FCA, DORA, PIPA, and others, by monitoring and verifying the effectiveness of controls and practices to protect sensitive data and maintain legal standards.
Team Collaboration & Regional Leadership:
- Collaborate with and provide regional leadership to US-based GRC, Operations, and Engineering teams to ensure cohesive international security delivery.
- Build strategic partnerships with distributed security professionals across international markets.
- Foster a culture of security awareness and accountability across all international offices and subsidiaries.
- Partner with regional contributors and stakeholders to prioritize cybersecurity efforts and ensure alignment with global resource planning..
Security Technology & Operations:
- Oversee the deployment, management, and rationalization of security tools (e.g., EDR, SIEM, DLP, Vulnerability Management) across all international endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, while validating and ensuring complete security tool coverage and health for all international assets.
- Partner with US-based Operations teams to ensure seamless security monitoring and response capabilities across time zones.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Security:
- Lead all cybersecurity aspects of the M&A lifecycle for international acquisitions.
- Develop and execute detailed security integration plans for acquired entities, bringing them in line with corporate security standards.
- Oversee the post-acquisition security posture to ensure a seamless and secure transition.
Incident Response & Crisis Management
- Serve as incident commander for major cybersecurity events affecting international operations.
- Lead cross-regional incident response coordination with US-based teams and functional leads.
- Ensure 24/7 incident response coverage across international time zones through strategic partnerships and regional coordination.
Risk & Compliance:
- Identify and manage cybersecurity risks specific to international operations, including geopolitical, regulatory, and privacy-related (e.g., GDPR, etc.) challenges.
- Ensure all international entities comply with relevant local and international data protection regulations.
- Conduct regular risk assessments and maintain comprehensive risk documentation for international operations.
Requirements:
- Comfort operating in decentralized environments and adapting standards to meet varying regional maturity levels and business needs
- Demonstrable experience building and managing a geographically dispersed or international team.
- Proven track record of developing and executing a global or regional cybersecurity strategy.
- Direct experience leading cybersecurity due diligence and integration activities for mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
- Experience in regulated industries (preferably financial services)
- Experience working across multiple international regulatory frameworks
Education/Experience:
- Extensive experience in cybersecurity, with demonstrated experience in a leadership or management capacity.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across different cultures.
- Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to problem-solving.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, or similar are highly desired.
Interview process:
- Teams call with the Talent Acquisition Partner
- Technical Interview with hiring manager (MS teams)
- Competency Interview with hiring manager and Senior Managers
- Face to face interview with senior managers in London office
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary
- Pension
- Holiday
- Private medical care
About Us
Acrisure is a fast-growing fintech leader that operates a global insurance broker. The Company has grown from $63 million to $4.3 billion in revenue since 2013 and deploys the best of Human and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at scale to reimagine financial service product distribution. Acrisure employs over 14,000 employees across thirteen countries.
Led by co-founder, Chairman and CEO Greg Williams, Acrisure provides a broad array of insurance and financial related solutions, including commercial property and casualty, personal lines and employee benefits insurance, real estate services, cyber services and asset and wealth management. Acrisure's massively valuable, high margin distribution network combines the strength of trusted advisors with growth and efficiency enabled by AI.
Our Ethos
Acrisure prides itself in achieving greatness through its people. We are a flat structure organisation that see the person behind the position. It's up to you to shape your career but we provide you with every tool that we can to help you get there.
We believe teams and solutions are made stronger through different perspectives, which is why we're committed to a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion.
At Acrisure we are committed to developing our people as we believe that investing in our employees is critical not only for their individual success but the success of the organisation. Through The Acrisure Academy (our learning system) we offer a variety of tailored courses and learning programs to enhance your skills and foster a culture of innovation. Additionally, we also offer ongoing professional development resources, coaching, and mentoring … by growing our people, we grow our business!
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