Managing Director - Insider Threat Program
Listed on 2026-07-11
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection
Insider Threat Program Leader
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 threat risk appetite.
- Supports regulatory exams, audits, and governance reviews, ensuring readiness and effective response across cyber risk, fraud, conduct risk, and operational resilience.
- 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 advantage.
- Leads and mentors a team with diverse risk and business…
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