About Us
 

Rothschild & Co is a leading global financial services group with seven generations of family control and a history of over 200 years at the centre of the world's financial markets.

Our expertise, intellectual capital and global network enable us to provide a distinct perspective that makes a meaningful difference to our clients, communities and planet.

We have 4,200 talented specialists on the ground in over 40 countries around the world, enabling us to deliver a unique global perspective across four market-leading business divisions – Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management and Five Arrows.

As a family-controlled business built on relationships, we place a huge emphasis on our people and finding the right colleagues to take our business forward.

Rothschild & Co is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment where diversity and different perspectives are valued. We are focused on the attraction and recruitment, development and retention and progression of high calibre talent to ensure we and our clients benefit from the value of difference.

Rothschild & Co – Group IT Division

The Rothschild & Co IT Division is a single, global function who, with the help of our IT outsourcing partner, have progressively standardised the delivery of IT services to the Rothschild & Co Group.

Role Overview

The IT GRC function was established two years ago, and there is a desire to extend the function to Switzerland, who reside on a different network.

The role would comprise of assisting the established IT GRC team in London with existing GRC activities and processes, and helping to extend these activities to our Swiss environment.

This includes:

• Supporting technical risk assessments and reporting.
• Supporting risk owners to define remediation plans and tracking remediation activities.
• Supporting audits of the IT function (both internal and external).
• Assessing compliance with IT control requirements defined in Policies and Standards.
• Supporting the IT GRC frameworks, encompassing the wider Group IT activities.

You will need to have strong stakeholder management skills and collaboration skills as you’ll be working closely with the Group IT team, other support functions, and our outsourced IT Infrastructure partners to coordinate efforts.

Responsibilities

Governance:

• Supporting IT audits conducted by the Internal Audit function.
• Supporting external audits, client due diligence activities and regulatory requests
• Assisting with the implementation of a governance and controls framework.
• Supporting formal reporting of governance activities.

Risk:

• Supporting technical risk assessments and working with 2nd line teams to communicate the associated risk to the business.
• Assisting the risk owner with assessing risks and documenting remediation plans.
• Supporting the overall IT risk management framework.
• Assisting with reporting to the IT Risk Committee.

Compliance:

• Supporting control compliance activities, e.g. annual review of controls, including assessing the maturity score.
• Supporting the control improvement programme to increase maturity and the overall security posture.

Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate a strong risk management mind set.
• Ability to demonstrate high attention to detail.
• Ability to cope with and bring structure to ambiguous situations and problems. Ability to adopt an agile and flexible approach to work.
• Ability to work independently and have the gravitas and acumen to work with IT Leads and third parties, and to challenge where appropriate.
• Be self-motivated and driven and able to manage multiple activities, prioritise workload and work in a team whenever required.

Experience

• 1+ years of experience in an Information Security / GRC related role, or a relevant bachelors degree with office-based experience.
• Knowledge of information security risk management frameworks and compliance practices.
• Knowledge of industry regulations and standards for Information Security and IT risk management in Financial Services.
• Understanding of IT Infrastructure and Business Applications areas.
• Proven ability in working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural, diverse environments.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with strong interpersonal skills at all levels.
• Strong presentation skills (written and verbal).
• Fluency in French and/or German would be desirable, but not essential.
• Open to occasional travel to Switzerland as required.

Our goal is to have a balanced, inclusive and flexible environment which enables all colleagues to achieve their personal and professional aspirations, and to ensure that Rothschild & Co provides longer term opportunities for talent.