Security GRC Officer

About Paystack

Paystack’s mission is to power African ambition. Over 300K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FairMoney, PiggyVest, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.

In just over 9 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more. We’ve been acquired by Stripe and are doubling down on the mission to help build out Africa’s payments infrastructure.

We’re obsessed with building the best place to work on the continent while accelerating digital commerce across Africa and we need your help!

Role Summary

As a member of the security team, you will contribute to the Security Organization by presenting your technical expertise with a balanced approach to communication and a bias for action. You will be required to work with a team of information security professionals, other teams within Paystack, and Paystack's customers to map out and effect change across Paystack’s information security landscape. You will leverage your experience across various tools and processes to establish policies and standards across the company.

Key responsibilities

The responsibilities of a security analyst (GRC) at Paystack include:

• Contributing to establishing strategic information security objectives across Paystack.
• Contributing to the strategic direction for Security Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance that align with overarching Security objectives of the company
• Understanding the unique challenges of securing the Paystack platform across different markets and demographics
• Identifying control gaps and testing the design of existing controls
• Determining risk management controls and recommending improvements to company-wide controls
• Ability to work effectively with a team to execute various security projects, evaluate controls and plan around solutions
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to own and manage portions of the security program and provide consistent status updates to Security Leadership regarding progress against objectives
• Raise accountability by escalating issues in a timely manner and creating and maintaining detailed documentation
• Stay up-to-date with trends in the information security community
• Operate with a sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Ability to distill controls across multiple regulatory requirements and frameworks for visibility into defence mechanism, strengths and gaps
• Contribute to the development of our Internal vendor risk management program; this involves working with vendors and partners to ensure they have appropriate controls in place
• Documenting exceptions to establish security policies, guidelines and standards; ensuring exceptions are reviewed periodically
• Collaborate on internal communications for information security messaging for the enterprise.
• Work with security leadership to develop a strategy for security training and awareness programs.

Who You Are

Required

• Experience with information security governance, risk and compliance experience for a global organization (preferably with reliance on cloud computing)
• Experience developing and publishing company-wide policies, standards, and other governance documents
• Experience in implementing industry standards frameworks/regulations such as Secure Controls Framework (SCF), ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Frameworks, Business Continuity (as it aligns with ISO22301)
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects and assist/advise your team in establishing appropriate priorities
• Ability to manage key customer relationships, including with senior management across business units
• Ability to influence a cross-functional and cross-business unit team to accomplish goals
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to learn quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stripe Equity compensation
• Interest-free loan (up to 30% of salary)
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Hybrid working environment
• Work from Home budget
• Monthly internet stipend
• Monthly well-being stipend
• Generous personal leave policy and annual slow days
• Fully covered parental leave and sabbatical policies
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth

Paystack is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to providing employees with a work environment that is progressive and open-minded. Our employment philosophy is to hire the best people and empower them to do the best work of their lives. Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual merit without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, gender or age.