Head of IT Legal & Regulatory Compliance - up to £1000 per day

Global company is looking for a Head of IT Legal & Regulatory Compliance for an initial 6 month contract to be based at its prestigious offices in South West London.

The main remit of the role will be to drive compliance towards all IT legal and regulatory compliance regimes. These include: Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), new Cyber Security legislation, IT and security aspects of privacy legislation and other regulatory requirements.

Key accountabilities

• Manage the compliance team, currently made up of 4 people
• Set legal and regulatory compliance strategy, processes and tooling
• Influence company-wide cyber security policies, standards and best practices in line with compliance requirements
• Drive SOX and PCI DSS compliance activity including planning, scoping, management assessment and liaison with auditors/assessors
• Define and lead execution of activity required to allow the company to work towards compliance with new cyber security and privacy legislation globally
• Lead and manage all IT external audit activity across the company
• Produce high quality compliance deliverables for consumption by various company-wide senior stakeholders, including due diligence reporting

Essential experience & qualifications

• Current security qualification (CISSP, CISM or equivalent e.g. Full membership of the IISP)
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

• Experience of implementation and operation of legal and regulatory compliance services in a large, multinational organisations
• Experience of managing security, compliance or audit teams.
• Security and IT compliance experience covering IT processes, cyber security, internal controls over financial reporting and PCI DSS
• Experience of managing external audit relationships.
• Excellent written communication of technology, cyber security and business issues up to Board level in major corporations with clarity, focus and high impact.
• Experience of stakeholder management with government institutions.
• Ability to deal with and influence multi-cultural groups of stakeholders and to work group wide across functions and segments across reporting lines.

This is an urgent role so please send your CV to Michael Moretti for immediate consideration