Global Identity & Compliance Manager

Location: Bengaluru

Role:
Global Identity & Compliance Manager

Location:

Bengaluru, India

Department: IT / Cyber Security

Experience:

12–15 Years

Employment Type:

Full-time

Role Scope:
Global

About the Role

We are seeking a Global Security & Compliance Manager to lead and drive key cybersecurity governance initiatives across the organization. This global role is based in Bengaluru and focuses on three core pillars:

- Compliance
- Security Awareness
- Vulnerability Management

The role requires a strong balance of technical depth, pragmatism, and stakeholder collaboration, with the ability to translate regulatory and audit requirements into practical, sustainable security outcomes in a complex global environment.

This is a people manager role, with direct and matrix leadership responsibilities.

Key Focus Areas

Compliance

- Support regulatory and audit-driven requirements such as GDPR, NIS2, SAP security audits, and SWIFT compliance.
- Translate compliance obligations into practical controls, documentation, and auditable processes.
- Partner closely with IT, Legal, Privacy, business owners, and internal/external auditors.
- Strengthen audit readiness, manage findings, and drive continuous improvement of compliance maturity.

Security Awareness

- Own and continuously improve the global security awareness program, including phishing simulations and training campaigns.
- Drive measurable improvements in employee behavior, engagement, and completion rates using platforms such as Know Be
4.

Vulnerability Management

- Lead the global vulnerability management governance process.
- Ensure vulnerabilities are identified, prioritized, tracked, and remediated through consistent reporting and escalation.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, application, IT, and OT owners to ensure timely remediation.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the global Security & Compliance agenda, translating regulatory requirements into actionable controls and measurable outcomes.
- Coordinate and support global regulatory compliance initiatives, including documentation and audit evidence management.
- Act as a key contributor to audit readiness and execution, including evidence preparation, walkthroughs, findings tracking, and remediation closure.
- Own and enhance the security awareness program, including reporting and stakeholder engagement.
- Govern the vulnerability management lifecycle, including prioritization, SLA tracking, escalation, and reporting.
- Provide people leadership to a Cyber Compliance Analyst (direct report), including goal setting, coaching, performance management, and development.
- Provide matrix people leadership to SOC analysts (coaching, development, performance inputs), in alignment with functional security leadership.
- Develop and maintain security governance artifacts such as policies, standards, procedures, control narratives, and exception handling.
- Define and report on security and compliance metrics, providing leadership visibility into audit status, vulnerabilities, and awareness effectiveness.
- Support baseline IAM-related security controls for compliance (e.g., SSO/MFA principles, access governance).
- Serve as a global subject matter expert on security compliance, advising stakeholders and driving continuous improvement.