Global Head of Cyber Security

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About the role

  • Global cybersecurity leader defining strategy, risk governance, and security operations for Innocap’s managed alternative-investment platform. Leading worldwide teams and protecting regulated financial technology.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute Innocap’s global cybersecurity strategy and operating model
  • Safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of information assets, technology platforms, and critical business services
  • Advise executive leadership on cyber risk and establish security posture and risk-based priorities
  • Provide independent challenge and escalation on material cybersecurity matters
  • Lead a global team of employees, consultants, and security partners
  • Collaborate with Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, Internal Audit, and business leaders to embed security by design
  • Own cybersecurity policies, standards, target operating model, and multi-year roadmap
  • Establish an enterprise approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, treating, and accepting cyber risk
  • Report to executive leadership and governance bodies on cyber risk, threats, incidents, controls, regulatory exposure, investments, and program performance
  • Set security architecture principles across Azure, Microsoft 365, identity, networks, applications, data platforms, business intelligence, software development, cloud services, and AI solutions
  • Lead security operations including monitoring, threat intelligence, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and incident response
  • Direct containment, investigation, recovery, root-cause analysis, and lessons learned for significant security events
  • Define cyber crisis management, response, and recovery capabilities; conduct exercises and simulations
  • Oversee identity and access management, privileged access, data protection, encryption, information handling, and zero-trust security
  • Own cybersecurity components of third-party risk management, including vendor due diligence, risk tiering, contractual requirements, monitoring, remediation, and incident coordination
  • Build, develop, and retain a high-performing global cybersecurity team and partner ecosystem
  • Oversee budgets and vendors and drive enterprise-wide security awareness and role-based learning

Requirements

  • University degree or equivalent relevant training in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering or a related field
  • Typically 15+ years of progressive cybersecurity, technology risk or information security experience
  • Substantial experience leading a global or multi-region security function in a complex, regulated environment
  • Experience operating with a CISO-level mandate, shaping enterprise strategy, advising senior executives, and communicating material risk to non-technical decision-makers
  • Deep knowledge of cybersecurity governance, enterprise risk management, security architecture, cloud security, incident response, resilience, threat management, data protection, and third-party risk
  • Advanced experience securing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environments
  • Strong understanding of modern identity, zero-trust, application security, DevSecOps, and AI-related security risks
  • Practical knowledge of NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls, and SOC 2
  • Proven success leading and developing global teams and managing SOC capabilities, external service providers, budgets, and strategic security investments
  • Exceptional judgment, executive presence, and influence
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
  • French knowledge is an asset
  • Knowledge of financial markets, alternative investments, asset servicing, or the hedge fund industry is a strong asset
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or CCSP are assets

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Inclusive, equitable, and people-first culture
  • Accommodation during any stage of the application process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AzureCloudCyber Security

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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