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Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. As we progress on this journey, we need to evolve our IT Compliance capabilities to be future ready and assure our global transformation whilst remediating today’s world. You will play a critical role in implementing a world class IT Compliance function to make it easy to do business whilst protecting WPP. You will assure and ensure IT compliance and security controls to protect the organization's IT estate are operating effectively. You will also help implement organization wide best practices for IT compliance & security. You will be responsible for instigating corrective action for all non-compliance issues or you find and those found by internal and external audit.
As we progress on this journey, we need to evolve our IT Compliance capabilities to be future ready and assure our global transformation whilst remediating today’s world. You will play a critical role in implementing a world class IT Compliance function to make it easy to do business whilst protecting WPP.
You will assure and ensure IT compliance and security controls to protect the organization's IT estate are operating effectively. You will also help implement organization wide best practices for IT compliance & security. You will be responsible for instigating corrective action for all non-compliance issues or you find and those found by internal and external audit.
What you'll be doing:
- Evaluate the controls, mitigations and components that are in place to safeguard information assets. Taking personal responsibility for supporting operational owners in delivering the necessary controls and risk mitigations
- Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the IT systems and internal controls against requirements, policies, and regulations. Required to research, interpret, and evaluate the compliance expectations against standards, security, contractual requirements, or government regulations. Set standards for how empirical evidence is collected and stored to prove levels of compliance.
- Interpret IT controls accurately with regard to system security & compliance posture, policy updates and configuration for information systems.
- Plan, deliver and conduct formal evaluations of IT system components for control design andeffectiveness. This includes efficiency, development processes and IT governance. Identify, document, summarize and present findings from their analysis work to the IT compliance assurance manager and leadership team, including recommendations and possible corrective actions to either resolve know issues or mitigate the potential opportunity for unacceptable risks.
- Ensure that there is clearly defined and real responsibility for IT application compliance and security. To empirically consider if the controls are installed as intended, if they are effective, or if any breach in compliance has occurred and if so, what actions can be done to prevent future breaches. Acting in an independent way whilst providing close support to operational owners.
- Holding operational teams to account for compliance and security control by Scheduling and chairing meetings, maintaining one-truth reporting and action tracking, maintaining the one-truth position that becomes the formal record of progress.
- Use expert knowledge, experience & learning to propagate knowledge to transform the organisation into a culture where operational compliance controls are prioritised and comprehensively delivered.
- Build strong relationships with the external stakeholders (customer, suppliers, other major bodies) as well as builds a network of peers to bring innovation and insights to WPP IT on the latest tools, techniques, and processes to deliver a future-fit capability.
- Ensure WPP IT meets all local legislative and regulatory requirements in all aspects of Compliance, Risk and Assurance obligations.
- Will operate in a highly complex environment with very high risk (potential financial or commercial impact, OpCo and Group level visibility, potential reputational impact).
What you'll need:
Qualification Requirements (Desirable)
- Certifications in IT Compliance (i.e. CISA, CIA) desirable but not essential
- Degree or equivalent (i.e. MBA) desirable but not essential
Skills / Experience Requirements
- Strong technical knowledge across of IT standards and governance, risk and control frameworks (SOX, IT General Controls, PCI, ISO etc.)
- Ability to provide leadership on complex and unfamiliar situations, often involving risk and emotion Expert communicator with a track record of operating, partnering with and influencing up to and including exec-level stakeholders
- Track record of working from the ground up and comfortable working with autonomy
- Critical, creative and strategic thinker who is comfortable with ambiguity and has a data-driven approach to solving complex problems
- Able to lead highly complex programmes across multiple units and geographies with high-pressure deliverable
- Ability to operate and lead in a fast-paced organizational transformation and able to navigate and champion change across organisational / geographical complexity
- Ability to develop, drive and embed efficient business processes and demonstrate the value of IT risk and compliance initiatives
- External awareness of the skills and capabilities required in security and IT as the organisation transforms and opportunities to leverage technology matures
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
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