Head of Risk & Compliance

Are you ready to take the challenge to educate all employees in a young and ambitious organisation about their role in making information security a core part of their modus operandi and conduct to appropriate behaviour change?

DAZN is looking to hire an experienced Head of Risk & Compliance to join their Technology Governance team as a Fixed Term 14-month maternity cover role.  Leading a team role overseeing the global strategic implementation of DAZN information security management system (ISMS), the chosen candidate will be responsible for delivering annual workstream activities that form the ISMS programme to ensure continued conformity with standards such as ISO27001 and PCI DSS.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the implementation and continued maintenance of DAZN’s information security management system (ISMS) in conformity with ISO27001.
• Managing and delivering annual workstreams for the successful completion of audits against ISO27001 and PCI DSS.
• Providing subject matter expertise within the area of information security risk, business continuity, and supplier risk management, including managing third party risk management activities.
• Maintain standards and procedures in relation to information security management.
• Work closely with DAZNs senior team across business functions to identify and implement appropriate solutions that account for customers, operational need and cost.
• Facilitating the identification and assessment of information security risk within the organisation and documenting it accordingly in the Information Security Risk Register
• Work with internal departments to coordinate the delivery of continual security education and awareness for all employees, including targeted role-based training.

You'll have:

• Strong background in information security governance, risk and compliance
• Practical experience of achieving ISO27001 and PCI DSS 4.0 certification/attestation 
• Sound understanding of business continuity, data protection and risk management standards, including ISO22301 and ISO27005
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate strategic information security topics, policies and standards as well as security-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels
• An understanding of IT Infrastructure and Cloud Services
• Experience interacting, presenting and working with C-level executives (CTO, CIO, etc.)
• Ability to deliver context directly to the business both in-person and online using collaborative tools such as Microsoft Teams
• Proactiveness, confidence, prioritization, accountability
• Experience in leading security training and awareness programmes within a large organisation is an advantage
• Influencing skills, strong bias for action, natural collaborator and enabler

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW' IN WHAT WE DO:

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

If you'd like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.