Associate Director, Corporate Security

The Associate Director serves as primary delegate to the Director and is the senior position accountable for the full scope of security and life-safety across. This role carries enterprise-wide responsibility for safeguarding FINRA’s personnel, assets, and operational continuity – spanning multiple facilities. The Associate Director oversees executive protection services for FINRA’s CEO and Management Committee, and exercises command authority over high-profile special events, contentious hearings, and critical incident response.

This position operates at the intersection of strategic leadership and operational execution, serving as a trusted advisor to organizational leadership on all matters related to physical security, risk mitigation, and life-safety.

• Corporate Security
  • Serves as senior delegate to the Director and provides leadership across a regional or enterprise security portfolio involving multiple locations, major events, investigations, and emergency response.
  • Provides strategic oversight of threat assessment and protective operations, establishing frameworks and standards for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks to FINRA personnel, facilities, and assets.
  • Manages sensitive investigations involving employee or vendor misconduct, physical security breaches, threats to personnel or facilities, and criminal activity associated with FINRA operations; ensures consistent investigative standards, confidentiality protocols, documentation practices, and corrective action planning in partnership with Legal, People Solutions, Technology, and other stakeholders.
  • Manages security vendor performance, guard force effectiveness, and security technology.
  • Advises senior leaders on physical security vulnerabilities, event readiness, workplace emergencies, high-impact incidents, and operational continuity issues.
  • Maintains 24/7 availability for workplace emergencies, high-impact incidents, and other significant security events.
  • Develops and champions enterprise security standards, policies, and standard operating procedures; drives consistent adoption and compliance across all locations in coordination with the broader Corporate Security team.
• Executive Protection
  • Leads executive protection program execution for senior executives and Management Committee activities, including protective intelligence, threat assessment, secure movement strategy, and high-profile event planning.
  • Establishes operating standards for protective advances, secure transportation, communications, confidentiality, site surveys, contingency planning, and incident escalation.
  • Provides strategic oversight of executive protection logistics and related vendor performance.
  • Advises senior leaders on protective risk, travel concerns, and executive event readiness.
  • Maintains 24/7 availability for executive protection escalations and other significant protective events.
• Demonstrates FINRA’s values.
• Collaborates in person and virtually in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in law enforcement at a federal, state, municipal, or corporate level, and executive protection experience required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of management experience overseeing a multi-state security program.
• Demonstrated expertise in threat assessment and protective intelligence.
• Demonstrated experience conducting risk assessments, physical security breach investigations, and highly sensitive or confidential internal investigations.
• Proficiency with security systems, including access control, CCTV monitoring, and…