IT Security Head (Banking & Financial Services)

Overview

• Join a leading financial services organization.
• Manage the full suite security operations function.

About Our Client

The hiring company is a leading financial services organization based in Makati.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Security Operations Leadership
  • Lead the end-to-end Security Operations function, including monitoring, threat detection, threat intelligence, and response.
  • Manage and optimise the SOC (internal or outsourced), ensuring 24/7 coverage and effective escalation workflows.
  • Oversee tuning and continuous improvement of SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR/XDR, WAF, and other detection technologies.
• Incident Response & Threat Management
  • Serve as incident commander for security events and coordinate cross‑functional response.
  • Conduct root cause analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery eff...