Lead, Business Risk Management (BISO)

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

About the Role

The Business Information Security Officer (BISO) is a key component of Bridgewater's strategy of forward-deploying security directly into the business. The BISO is an individual contributor role driving cross-functional teams, who is required to understand, communicate, and help mitigate the security risks of one or more Bridgewater departments. This role demands a broad understanding of security risk analysis and audit, security controls across physical, staff, tech, and business domains, as well as security operations and management. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in one or more of these areas. This role offers a unique opportunity for a dynamic, independent individual to help Bridgewater build and run a world class security program.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Act as a security liaison between the Security Team and one or more Bridgewater departments
• Understand and communicate the security risk of those departments
• Ensure key controls are in place and operational
• Provide departments with security tools, resources, and training

Minimum Qualifications

• Ideally 5-10 years of security risk and internal audit experience, ideally in the financial services industry. A background in consulting, Information Security, operations, or fund administration is also favorable.
• In depth knowledge of fundamental security principles, risk management, internal control principles, process control/improvement, risk, DR/BCP, security and regulatory compliance.
• Experience successfully driving projects in collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience implementing information security and risk management frameworks at department and enterprise levels.
• Effective verbal and written communication and skills.
• Effective relationship-building skills.
• Ability to synthesize data and express findings at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Analytical thinker with common sense.
• Adaptable to change and ambiguity.
• Proactively seeks appropriate training to further enhance client/ market/ industry knowledge.
• Working knowledge of the global capital markets, products, processes, systems, regulations, and securities operations preferred.
• CISSP, CISM, or CISA certification preferred. 
• Solid working knowledge of NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001/27002; Basel II, COSO, and/or ISO 31000 preferred.

Physical Requirements

This role will have an onsite requirement of 4-days per week, alternating between our NYC and Westport campuses. 

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $225,000 - $375,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.

Why Chose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits.

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Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer