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About the Role

Spearhead cybersecurity excellence in Japan by leading information security initiatives, shaping the local security culture, and enabling businesses to thrive securely. This role involves safeguarding operations, fostering a strong security culture, and ensuring compliance with security standards, requiring strong relationship management, influencing skills, and in-depth security knowledge of the Japanese cyber regulatory landscape. The incumbent will be a senior member of the APAC RISO Information Security team, part of Global Information Security (GIS).

Responsibilities

Provide security leadership across Japan by deploying the global information security program and influencing IT and business executives while ensuring local regulatory and business requirements are met.
Represent the Group CISO function as the Japan country Information Security leader.
Operate as the local subject matter expert and leader.
Regularly assess and evaluate the local country risk and control position against KPIs and the information security risk management framework.
Support Japan regulatory assessment activities in relation to RISO & GIS domains, ensuring partnership, visibility, and engagement to regional CRA and global security GRC leadership.
Provide guidance and technical security advisory on local projects, acting as the local subject matter expert for Chubb group security expectations to local stakeholders.
Ensure security issues are appropriately escalated to relevant Regional and Global stakeholders when they relate to delivery priorities for Chubb Japan.
Lead the security uplift of Japan's legacy application estate.
Drive local adoption of Chubb security processes, policy, and standards.
Support GIS and RISO portfolio delivery into Japan with local oversight and escalation to ensure GIS objectives and transformation targets are effectively and consistently rolled out locally.
Build plans and oversee local improvement and transformation aligning to Chubb’s GIS program and RISO functional objectives.
Influence local Chubb Japan Technology, Operations, and business units to support, execute, and prioritize RISO and GIS priorities.
Provide regular country reporting on information security Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to the Japan, Regional, and Security leadership.
Support Local Board and senior management reporting and awareness on Cyber.
Build an accurate inventory/registry of Japan security issues and exceptions, ensuring local disclosure and identification of security derogations.
Track and regularly review Japan security issues and exceptions with owners and local management, as well as regional and group security management.
Monitor Third-Party Cyber Risk Management risks and support local management escalation discussions where necessary.
Build effective relationships, partnering and supporting the Japan CIO and other local Japan Leaders on Information Security matters.
Identify and engage with key business contacts and stakeholders to raise awareness of security threats to Chubb and to ensure adequate coverage for the business’ information security program.
Attend Regional InfoSec Leadership and Global Team meetings providing local insight on Japan-specific issues, challenges, and status.
Regularly partner and collaborate with the Regional Technical Security team, Cyber Risk & Assurance, and Security Architectural teams on security issues, assessments, and reporting matters.
Manage and support Japan local stakeholders through strong in-office presence, face-to-face stakeholder engagement, and presence.
Engage with GIS functional towers and teams based in the US, and the APAC RISO organization to support alignment and maturing GIS processes in Japan, as well as Security service coverage.
Oversee, support, and report on Far East (Japan) information security incidents in collaboration with Global Security Operations, the Privacy function, and the regional Information Security Incident Management team.
Plan and support security awareness and training activities within Japan, driving risk culture changes and improvement of security behaviors.

Requirements

Experience leading Japan country information security requirements within a global FI, responsible for a breadth of security services.
Hands-on practical cyber acumen across technical security domains.
Strong knowledge of industry standards and frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF, ISF SoGP).
Familiarity with Japanese regulatory standards and activity around Information Security (Japan FSA), covering data usage and protection, and technical specifications.
Demonstrated expertise in Incident Response and Incident Management.
Experience working in an agile work style, Secure Dev Ops, Security in Software Security Delivery preferred.
Good understanding of cloud services and cloud development techniques, as well as cloud security.
Experience with Data Leakage prevention and protection (DLP) control design and process alignment within corporate structures.
Cyber transformation, project, and program planning experience for security control uplift, implementation, and improvement.
Strong organizational, analytical, and customer service skills.
Ability to work effectively in a team/matrixed environment.
Effectively communicate risks and issues to various levels of the business and IT leadership.
Ability to work onsite regularly to ensure management of key stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Japanese & English bilingual
Communication skills including the ability to develop and provide effective presentations to various audiences, including non-technical resources.

Location

Japan

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent (preferred).

About the Company

Chubb is seeking a seasoned Information Security Manager to lead our information security initiatives across Japan.
The incumbent will be a senior member of the APAC RISO Information Security team, part of Global Information Security (GIS).