Cybersecurity Governance Lead

Why Mizuho
At Mizuho, we provide the stability of an international industry leader with the career trajectory of a growing business. Our steady, strategic growth gives our people at all levels rewarding degrees of responsibility and richer work experience than a boutique firm or an established giant could offer alone.

It’s the local expertise of our employees that makes our global network so powerful. By collaborating with colleagues and clients who share the same ambition and drive, you can amplify your sphere of influence and base of knowledge as part of one of the largest banks in the world.

Summary:

The Cybersecurity Governance Lead is responsible for driving governance, executive reporting, operating cadence, organizational effectiveness across the Cybersecurity organization.
This role serves as the operational backbone of the function by establishing governance processes, centralizing and automating reporting, coordinating leadership forums, and providing visibility into cybersecurity performance, risks, workforce metrics, strategic initiatives, and transformation activities.
A key responsibility of this role is transforming cybersecurity data into actionable executive insights, helping leadership understand operational performance, risk reduction, cybersecurity effectiveness, and business impact through meaningful metrics and reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Governance & Leadership Operating Cadence
Develop the Cybersecurity governance framework, leadership calendar, and operating cadence.
Coordinate leadership meetings, governance forums, operating reviews, and planning cycles.
Track key decisions, actions, risks, dependencies, and leadership commitments.
Ensure governance forums are supported with timely, accurate, and decision-ready information.
Collaborate across Cybersecurity leadership teams to maintain operating rhythm.
2. Cybersecurity Metrics, Reporting & Executive Insights
Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and KRIs that provide visibility into cyber risk, operational performance, organizational priorities, and risk reduction outcomes.
Develop a centralized reporting framework and single source of truth for management reporting.
Translate data into executive-level insights, recommendations, and decision-support information.
Partner with cybersecurity leaders to define meaningful metrics that demonstrate business value, effectiveness, and progress against organizational objectives.
3. Reporting Automation & Data-Driven Operations
Drive automation and standardization of cybersecurity reporting, governance, and management information processes.
Partner with diverse stakeholders to automate reporting pipelines, workflows, and dashboard capabilities.
Eliminate manual reporting, spreadsheet-based consolidation, and repetitive presentation preparation.
Implement scalable reporting solutions that improve quality, consistency, transparency, and efficiency.
Measure and demonstrate reductions in reporting effort through automation and process improvement.
4. Organizational Performance & Execution
Provide visibility into workforce planning, transformation initiatives, strategic programs, and organizational priorities.
Monitor progress against objectives, milestones, remediation activities, and leadership commitments.
Identify execution risks, delivery challenges, and areas requiring management attention.
Support leadership decision-making through execution tracking, analysis, and oversight of organizational priorities.
5. Executive Communications & Leadership Readiness
Develop executive presentations, briefing materials, leadership communications, and CISO/CIO updates.
Prepare executive summaries, talking points, and stakeholder communications.
Support communication of cybersecurity…