KPMG Nederland

Computer And Network Security

ITThirdParty&ClientManager

€4–7k Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands CONTRACT
The Brief

“IT Third Party & Client Manager at KPMG Nederland. Skills: third-party risk management, information security, risk assessment, contract management, stakeholder management. assessing whether external parties with whom KPMG collaborates meet our information security standards, through security assessments, due diligence, and requesting/validating relevant documentation (such as ISO certifications, SOC reports, or pentest results). translating the outcomes of these risk assessments into concrete se”

What You'll Achieve.

ensuring that these requirements are recorded in contracts, DPAs, SLAs, and other binding documents (including follow-up if measures are missing); ensuring that these steps logically connect, without overlap or gaps; ensuring that answers are complete, consistent, and delivered on time; ensuring that security requirements are included and implemented in projects; ensuring that all information security aspects within the third-party risk management process are demonstrably complied with; ensuring that the correct security requirements are included and secured in contracts, SLAs, and other binding documentation; ensuring that answers are correct, complete, and convincingly delivered; ensuring that KPMG only accepts obligations that are actually executable; ensuring that processes run smoothly and security risks are demonstrably managed

Industry & Context.

Computer And Network Security
Problems you'll solve

translating complexity into understandable actions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

five years of demonstrable work experience with performing, assessing, and substantiating risk analyses of external parties, including interpreting security documentation such as ISO certifications, SOC reports, pentest results, or due diligence questionnaires, Experience with drafting, reviewing, and refining contractual security provisions, such as DPAs, SLAs, processor agreements, and security addenda, and aligning them with the risk profile of the collaboration, Experience with coordinating client audits and information requests, gathering information from IT, Legal, Procurement, Risk Management, and other teams, and ensuring that answers are complete, timely, and demonstrably correct, Good understanding of all relevant components of third-party risk management, such as onboarding, risk classification, security requirements, monitoring, annual reviews, exit management, and documentation obligations, Relevant completed HBO or WO education, such as Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Information Security Management, or a comparable domain

Nice to Have

Affinity with (generative) AI and motivation to actively apply this technology in daily work

What You'll Do.

assessing whether external parties with whom KPMG collaborates meet our information security standards

through security assessments

and requesting/validating relevant documentation (such as ISO certifications

translating the outcomes of these risk assessments into concrete security requirements and ensuring these requirements are recorded in contracts

and other binding documents (including follow-up if measures are missing)

structuring the chain of third-party risk management

and ensuring these steps logically connect

without overlap or gaps

demonstrating to clients and external stakeholders that KPMG has its information security in order

for example by compiling assurance packages (such as ISO certifications

or questionnaires) tailored to the client's request

coordinating client audits and information requests

gathering input from involved colleagues (such as IT

and ensuring that answers are complete

and delivered on time

ensuring that security requirements are included and implemented in projects by reviewing project teams

and verifying that they have been demonstrably executed and are effective

ensuring that all information security aspects within the third-party risk management process are demonstrably complied with

refining risk analyses of external parties and applications

monitoring the depth of analyses and ensuring that the correct security requirements are included and secured in contracts

and other binding documentation

coordinating information requests and audits from clients

assessing security requirements that clients wish to impose on KPMG before contracts are signed and advising on feasibility

and potential mitigations

ensuring that KPMG only accepts obligations that are actually executable

assessing the implementation of information security policy within KPMG services

and internal processes

and Central Services on the correct application of information security policy

conducting risk analyses to gain insight into the main risks and measures needed to keep them within KPMG's risk appetite

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

coordinating input from involved colleagues (such as IT, Legal, Assurance, Procurement, and Risk Management); working closely with colleagues from various departments with diverse expertise and responsibilities; ensuring everyone in the chain fulfills their role effectively

Communication Scope

communicatively strong in both Dutch and English; bridging the gap from your field to colleagues in other disciplines; explaining complex matters in understandable and convincing language

Process & Methodology

process management, cross-functional coordination, vendor/stakeholder management, resource planning

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