IT Risk Officer

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Amsterdam
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3-3
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
Meet the financial technology platform helping the world’s leading businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
The Role
The IS and IT Risk Officer ensures risk management practices are applied across Adyen's technological environments and collaborates with technical teams to guide risk mitigations while engaging with regulators and enhancing policies.
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This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

IT Risk Officer
 
The Information Security and IT Risk domain within the second line Enterprise Risk team, ensures that risk management practices are applied across Adyen’s technological environments teamsand initiatives, followed by appropriate actions to treat these risks and monitoring against the pre-defined risk appetite. This continuous task requires a close relationship with technical teams in the first line, in order to understand changes in the tech landscape but also to guide them in relation to risk mitigations. 
 
The ideal candidate is a knowledgeable IT risk professional, with relevant experience in IS/IT Governance, Risk and Compliance activities. The candidate has reasonable technical
understanding, and can advance the Adyen Security and IT/IS framework to the next level of maturity, providing guidance in areas such as IT Excellence, IT Resilience and Data/AI Governance.

What you will do
 
● Execute on Information Security and IT Risk Assessments across a number of diverse IT areas and assets, advising on and ensuring risk mitigation actions are implemented.
● Maintain and further develop the Adyen IT and Information Security Policies.
● Engage with key stakeholders and work cooperatively to identify, create, develop or implement mitigations to IT and Security risks, and actions that drive policies adoption and process maturity.
● Collaborate with other Enterprise risk domains, in order to incorporate Security and IT risks into Adyen’s risk profile, ensuring those are considered when evaluating company objectives.
● Collaborate with other second-line teams, typically regulatory compliance and privacy, in the implementation of Security and IT requirements, as well as engage with local auditors or external partners as a trusted point of contact for the specific risk domains, globally.
● Engage with various regulators to provide clarity on Adyen’s IT and security landscape.
● Identifies and drives process improvements that enhance scalability and efficiency of the Information Security and IT Risk team.
● Own and lead the second line risk oversight for specific Technology risk domains or projects.

Who you are
 
● You have at least 3+ years experience with IT risk management, working within the second line risk management or technology risk consulting in a Big 4.
● Demonstrated experience in IT Excellence components, such as resilience or general technology risk evaluations, and recognized industry frameworks.
● You feel comfortable explaining risks associated with Information Security or IT areas, to engineers or other business stakeholders.
● A good understanding of technology and security regulations such as DORA.
● You have experience in engaging with regulators or in regulatory projects, with understanding of requirements related to Security and IT risk management for regulated institutions or the payments industry.
● You have a good understanding of Information Security and IT program domains, to recommend risk mitigations, risk metrics and enable risk monitoring and oversight.
● Passionate and driven about building for risk management, owning projects and objectives in the medium, long term.
● You are innovative, flexible with strong problem-solving capabilities and able to define efficient and effective processes and procedures.
● You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
● An understanding of how to improve and build a Data Governance Framework is considered a plus.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

Top Skills

Data Governance
Information Security
It Compliance
It Risk Management
Regulatory Compliance
Technology Risk Consulting

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The Company
HQ: Amsterdam
4,568 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft.

Why Work With Us

At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We started with payments, at a time when providers offered services based on a patchwork of systems built on outdated infrastructure. Ambition demanded more. So we set off to build a financial technology platform for the modern era, entirely in-house, from the ground up.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We believe that in-person collaboration is the best route to building genuine connection. We’re an office-first company that offers flexibility when needed. We trust our team to act with autonomy and make good choices.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
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