BNP Paribas Group is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment. It has close to 185,000 employees in 65 countries. In Spain we are more than 5,100 employees within 13 business lines.
BNP Paribas Personal Finance, through its brand Cetelem, specialises in consumer credit, personal loans and card management. It is a financial partner of major retailers, consumer goods companies and car dealerships, as well as a benchmark in market analysis thanks to the Cetelem Observatory studies. BNP Paribas Personal Finance has 20,000 employees serving more than 20 million customers.
Security Specialist – IT Governance
Who are we?
We are South Europe Technologies (S.ET); the IT, Data and Operations Shared Service Center of BNP Paribas Personal Finance, with delivery centers in Spain and Portugal, providing the best solutions to BNPP PF entities around the world such as Cetelem (specialized, between others, in financial partnership of major retailers, consumer goods companies and car dealerships).
Among other services, our portfolio is composed of:
· Applications Management (Architecture, Project Management, Development, and Quality Assurance).
· IT Risks & Cybersecurity Services.
· Platforms Management.
· Data Analytics and AI.
· Operations.
Our offices are in Spain (Madrid) and Portugal (Lisbon, Porto). The company brings together over 200+ employees, with expertise in various technologies (Java, .Net, Python, Tibco, APIGee) and other operational roles (Functional Analyst, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Auto Stock Financing operators). We keep growing!
About the job
Main responsibility:
As an SSr Security Specialist IT Governance, your primary mission is to ensure the effective implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of cybersecurity controls defined within BNP Paribas' Cybersecurity Program. This includes analyzing evidence, tracking control effectiveness, and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure compliance and risk mitigation.
Your functions will include:
· Objective’s evaluation: review and validate evidence related to cybersecurity controls (technical and organizational), ensuring alignment with Group policies and standards, and effectiveness in mitigating risks.
· Compliance Monitoring: track the implementation status of controls across BNP Paribas entities, identify gaps or deviations, and support remediation planning.
· Stakeholder Coordination: collaborate with local and central teams (IT Risk, CISO’s team, etc.) to ensure a comprehensive view of control status and risk posture.
· Reporting: prepare regular reports on control status, identified risks, and ongoing actions for cybersecurity leadership and risk committees.
· Continuous Improvement: recommend enhancements to governance processes, control tracking mechanisms, and automation opportunities.
What is in it for you?
· Be part of an international team delivering services worldwide for BNP Paribas Personal Finance subsidiaries.
· Excellent growth prospects as our service catalog expands annually to meet the evolving needs of BNPP PF entities.
What we are looking for:
· Advanced student/graduate of a computer science related career
· Proven experience in assessing and governance of IT and Cybersecurity risks and controls.
· Proven experience with the definition of action plans for identified risks.
· Proven experience in monitoring action plans for identified risks.
· Knowledge of standards like NIST Framework or ISO27001.
Skills:
Behavioral Skills
· Proactivity
· Customer-oriented (service delivery will be the heart of the activity).
· Drive and autonomy.
· Attention to details.
· Motivated to pick up new skills as you go.
· Organized, efficient, and able to meet deadlines.
Transversal Skills
· Analytical ability
· Project management
· Critical thinking
Tools – Methodologies – Technologies
· MS Office Pack (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Language skills:
· Proficient in English (Reading and writing – C1 minimum)
About our culture:
We are proud to create, maintain and develop business solutions for BNP Paribas Group entities around the world, while keeping a high level of service and providing added value to our customers.
Working in an Inclusive and Multicultural environment, we encourage everyone to develop their talents and skills, offering various career opportunities and internal mobility programs, within local SET teams or in other entities within the Group.
We value our employees’ experience by keeping a well-balanced environment with flexibility regarding the work schedule and care for everyone’s personal time.
We embraced a hybrid way of working because we believe social connection always adds value to our day-to-day activities.
Benefits:
• Training programs, career plans and internal mobility opportunities, national and international thanks to our presence in different countries.
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee that ensures an inclusive work environment. In recent years, several employee communities have been created to organize diversity and inclusion awareness actions (PRIDE, We Generations and MixCity).
• Corporate volunteering program (1 Million Hours 2 Help) in which employees can dedicate time out of their working hours to volunteer activities.
• Flexible compensation plan.
• Hybrid telecommuting model (50%).
• 31 vacation days.
Diversity and inclusion commitment
BNP Paribas Group in Spain is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.
