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Managing Director - Insider Threat Program

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60684, USA
Listing for: BMO Financial Group
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-13
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Data Security, Information Security
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Leads the Bank's enterprise insider threat program, defining strategy, governance, and operating model to proactively identify, assess, mitigate, and prevent insider-driven risk. Establishes a risk-based approach to insider threat, strengthening the Bank's ability to anticipate emerging threats, close control gaps, and enhance operational resilience.  Maintains 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.

The insider threat program is a centralized program requiring strict governance and confidentiality, with only involving stakeholders on a need-to-know basis in a controlled escalation environment.

** Strategy & Operating Model*
* + Defines and leads the enterprise insider threat strategy and long-term roadmap.

+ Builds a consistent global framework aligned to regulatory, legal, privacy and labor requirements; regulatory first design.

+ Establishes governance structures, escalation protocols, and decision-making forums.

+ Matures capabilities from reactive investigations to proactive, intelligence-led prevention.

** Cross-Functional Leadership & Integration** .

+ Partners across Cybersecurity, Fraud, Financial Crimes, Corporate Security, Operations. Legal, Global Investigations, Risk, Privacy, and Human Resources.

+ Integrates insider threat capabilities across systems, platforms, and control environments.

+ Establishes clear routines for collaboration, escalation, and coordinated response.

+ Promotes a culture of proactive risk identification and responsible escalation.

** Data, Analytics & Intelligence*
* + Develops and optimizes insider threat analytics (i.e., user and entity behavior analytics), tools, and capabilities to support scalable, intelligence-driven risk detection.

+ Builds a consolidated insider threat intelligence capability integrating cyber, fraud, financial crime, HR, and investigative signals (data fusion).

+ Delivers executive-level reporting and insights on insider threat posture, emerging risks, significant cases, control effectiveness, and remediation progress.

+ Leverages data, analytics, and risk indicators to inform strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions.

** Detection, Investigation & Response*
* + Owns 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.

+ Embeds privacy-by-design and ethical monitoring practices, ensuring transparency, proportionality, and protection of employee dignity.

+ Develops and enhances intelligence-led detection capabilities and response frameworks to enable proactive risk identification and mitigation.

+ Partners with Global Investigations to ensure that consistent triage, investigation, escalation, and resolution related to Insider threat occurs across the enterprise.

+ Defines standards for response actions ensuring timeliness, proportionality, governance, and defensibility.

+ Participates in complex, high-risk investigations involving employees, contractors, third parties, cyber events, fraud activity, and control breaches, as required partnering with the Global Investigations team.

** Governance, Risk & Regulatory Oversight*
* + Identifies systemic control gaps and drives remediation across identity and access management, privileged access, data protection, fraud controls, vendor access, and critical operations.

+ Oversees adherence to the Bank's Risk Appetite Framework, ensuring insider threat risks are managed within defined tolerances.

+ Defines and manages key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and insider treat risk appetite.

+ Supports regulatory exams, audits, and governance reviews, ensuring readiness and effective response across cyber risk, fraud, conduct risk, and operational resilience

** Leadership & Culture*
* + Within the mandate of this role, promotes and supports the Bank's risk culture including ensuring employees understand their accountabilities for risk-taking activities, promoting an environment of open communication and effective challenge, and establishing the "tone from the top" through leading by example.

+ Complies with the Bank's Risk Appetite framework and ensures risk-taking activities remain within agreed limits and comply with all regulatory requirements.

+ Role models driving simplicity and productivity enhancements for optimization across groups, driving continuous improvement on key measures.

+ Activates our winning culture, aligned with Purpose. Ignites engagement by aligning our culture to our strategy and fueling exceptional execution.

+ Fosters an inclusive environment for all employees by eliminating barriers to inclusion.

+ Develops leaders, plans for succession, and fosters a high-performance culture.

+ Drives top talent acquisition and retention, developing organizational capabilities to drive competitive…
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