What you'll do
Directs, manages, and coach's teams within the Information Security Group, specifically focusing on Cyber Threat Intelligence, Adversary Modeling & Red Team Operations. Drives a security focused culture and leads the optimization and integration of information security capabilities across the business. Assesses the security posture of H&R Block's global client base of technology vendors, IT, and business customers. Monitors and reports on the organization's information security performance against established programs to senior leadership.
Day to day, you'll
Resource Management
- Manages security operations including organization and staffing.
- Conducts employment interviews, makes hiring decisions, and participates in corrective action and termination discussions and decisions.
- Sets daily priorities and assigns tasks and projects to team members as required.
- Monitors and provides periodic status updates and risk assessments on each project.
- Monitors performance and develops team members to ensure consistent, effective, and efficient processes and results.
- Prepares and delivers associate quarterly and annual performance reviews, including performance metrics for each performance objective.
- May be engaged in developing and managing a budget for assigned group.
Security Management
- Evaluates and monitors external and internal security threat levels, the organization's defense posture, associated risks, and mitigation recommendations.
- Advises leadership on security gaps, operational issues and industry trends which require prioritization, funding, or consideration.
- Drives adoption of security policies, procedures, standards, and processes.
- Establishes and leverages relationships to ensure security initiatives are properly assessed, documented, and prioritized.
- Analyzes new requirements, standards, and capabilities to determine feasibility and timing of implementation in segment-level programs.
- May serve as subject matter expert on complex, high risk security efforts, designing and developing security testing scenarios.
Project Management
- May manage complex, high risk, high impact security projects.
- Estimates project hours and resources required.
- Manage project work plan and resources.
- Develops status reports and update senior management with progress as necessary.
About H&R Block
H&R Block's purpose is simple: To provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world.
We are a people company first and a tax company second. People who join H&R Block say it feels like being part of something bigger. A place with an amazing and storied history, but with a strong and urgent focus on the future. Maybe it's how determined, forward thinking and innovative we are, or how accessible our leadership is. We believe it's all those things, and much more.
H&R Block is committed to diversity and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. All qualified applicants are welcomed and encouraged to apply.
What you'll bring to the team
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or equivalent through a combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum of 3 years' supervisory and/or training experience required.
- Minimum of 8 years' experience in information security, networking, or a position requiring technical problem solving skills.