Who We Are:
Every transaction matters. Every Canadian matters. At Interac, we protect both — driving trust, security, and inclusion, so our digital economy thrives.
Founded in 1984, Interac connects Canadians through secure digital payments, advanced identity verification and industry-leading fraud protection. Connecting banks, businesses, and individuals, Interac enables millions to send, receive, and manage money safely and effortlessly every day — across both digital and physical environments.
As the backbone of Canada’s financial ecosystem, Interac facilitates over 20 million transactions daily, supported by trusted partnerships with government and financial institutions. Consistently ranked as Canada’s most reputable financial technology brand, Interac is deeply embedded in the daily lives of Canadians.
Who You Will Work With:
The vacant Governance Risk and Compliance, Lead is a key resource to ensuring Interac Corp. “Security First” principles are embedded in all environments.
Reporting to the Leader, Governance Risk and Compliance, the successful candidate will have knowledge of principles in security policies and standards and modern practices and a good understanding of security aspects of the various technologies. As a member a dedicated Information Security team, The Governance Risk and Compliance Lead works closely with senior leadership, team members and staff across Risk, Audit, Legal, HR, Fraud, Operations, and Infrastructure teams to ensure the organization is operating securely.
In this role, you are working with the various teams to maintain security risk posture of the organization. You want to know as much about the state of the environment as you can, and you can think outside the box when it comes to proposing solutions which will benefit the organization.
A key initiative will be maintaining ISO 27001 Certification.
What You Will Do:
Expertise leading the implementation and ongoing management of the Governance Risk and Compliance Tool (GRC Tool) for Information Security
Preparing and maintain risk register that identifies gaps during project, system and software lifecycles through security risk assessments or security reviews and track risks for remediation
Reporting on and measure the effectiveness of the technical controls via security metrics.
Enhancing and maintaining the security risk assessment framework
Proactively contribute to security governance initiatives, providing technical and business advice, as well as insight on management processes
Aligning and refining Information Security policies and standards with industry best practices, pertinent regulations and standards bodies (ISO 27001/2, PCI DSS, CIS, NIST Series)
Developing security requirements matrix mapped to organization’s policies and standards
Prepare, track and maintain risk acceptances and security exceptions.
Leverage expertise in information security risk management to prepare and conduct security assessments for both planned initiatives and unplanned instances.
Examine and interpret requirement documents and architecture diagrams and determine security risks to the organization
Collaborate with senior leaders and make informed, risk-based recommendations to enhance the security posture of the organization, products and services
Weigh business needs against security concerns to help guide the business to make practical and informed risk decisions
Participate and support security related and serve as a key interface with external and internal auditors for security compliance related activities
Support development, enhancement, and socialization of the security awareness program
Create and update technical documents in line with company policies
Ensure that effective BCP/DR policies and plans are in place and maintained
Keep abreast of the cybersecurity threats and assess their potential impact to Interac’s posture
What You Bring:
You have an excellent knowledge information security with Degree or Diploma in Information Technology and/or business, or combined relevant field experience and certifications CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CISM
You have 7+ years of experience working with or in Information Security, Information Security…
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