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Abound

GRC Security Specialist

Abound

. Own the recurring security assurance cycle end to end .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the recurring security assurance cycle end to end
  • Run third-party security due diligence, supplier tiering, reassessments, registers, concentration-risk tracking, and exit plans
  • Own responses to inbound security due diligence from funders, banking partners, investors, commercial partners, and prospects
  • Build and maintain a reusable security trust pack and standard questionnaire pre-fills
  • Maintain the annual security assurance calendar and ensure activities produce evidence and close actions
  • Coordinate external penetration tests from scoping through remediation and retesting
  • Facilitate tabletop exercises and track post-exercise actions
  • Maintain the information security risk register and administer policy exceptions and risk acceptances
  • Perform first-line control testing and retain evidence
  • Produce security management information for the Head of Security, ExCo, and Risk Committee
  • Consolidate and manage vulnerabilities and security findings from EDR, cloud security posture, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets scanning, and penetration tests
  • Triage findings, coordinate remediation with engineering teams, escalate ageing findings, and report remediation performance
  • Run security awareness activities, phishing simulations, role-based training, and completion tracking
  • Coordinate pre-employment screening with People
  • Contribute to the ISO 27001 ISMS, including control documentation, Statement of Applicability, evidence collection, internal audits, and external auditor liaison
  • Draft, review, approve, and maintain security policies and standards
  • Maintain incident response plans and playbooks, facilitate post-incident reviews, track remediation, and support regulatory notifications
  • Maintain business continuity and disaster recovery documentation and testing evidence
  • Embed security requirements into the SDLC and support threat modelling
  • Support RoPA maintenance, DPIA completion, and DSAR handling with Legal

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Three or more years in an information security assurance, GRC or security compliance role
  • At least some experience in a regulated financial services environment or another environment with real external audit pressure
  • Hands-on experience of ISO 27001, whether operating an ISMS or taking one through certification
  • Demonstrable experience running third-party or vendor security assessments
  • Demonstrable experience responding to inbound security due diligence
  • Ability to read technical findings, including EDR vulnerability reports, penetration test findings, and cloud misconfigurations, and assess severity and real-world exploitability
  • Clear, concise written English
  • Confidence to challenge engineers and suppliers and identify inadequate answers
  • Experience of a cloud-native environment, ideally AWS (desirable)
  • Experience of scaling a control framework as an organisation grows (desirable)
  • Familiarity with UK operational resilience expectations (SYSC 15A) and outsourcing requirements (SYSC 8) (desirable)
  • Certifications such as CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor, CRISC or CCSP (desirable)
  • Willingness to come to the office three times a week
  • Visa eligibility for the location where the job is based is addressed in the application form

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • No benefits, perks, or compensation extras are specified in the posting.