DEFENDWellington, Wellington, New Zealand · Hybrid
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DEFEND
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand • Hybrid
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The Business Risk & Assurance Manager is responsible for maintaining an effective GRC framework to ensure organizational accountability and regulatory compliance. This role involves overseeing enterprise risk management, coordinating security audits, and integrating risk management into business processes.
Candidates should possess strong experience in implementing industry standards such as ISO, NIST, and GDPR, alongside a deep understanding of risk management frameworks. Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills are required to effectively manage GRC initiatives and engage with stakeholders.
At DEFEND, we are committed to delivering exceptional cyber resilience by providing strategic, engineered solutions alongside expert advisory services. Our goal is to empower organisations to safeguard their digital assets through innovative technology and best-in-class practices.
The Business Risk & Assurance Manager is responsible for maintaining an effective GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) framework internally that ensures DEFEND is accountable, transparent, and responsible to all of its stakeholders, including customers, employees, and the wider community.
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Our dream at DEFEND is to improve everyday life by creating a cyber resilient world. Over the last few years, we've experienced phenomenal growth, working with a wide variety of customers and winning several industry awards, including Microsoft's Global Partner of the Year for 2025!
Why DEFEND?
We believe in investing in our employees’ growth and providing them with opportunities to advance their skills and careers. We offer a collaborative workplace culture, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where innovative thinking is encouraged.
By joining our innovative and creative team you will have the opportunity to contribute a variety of cybersecurity outcomes, from culture & awareness of cyber resilience, through to offensive & defensive security. No matter what your role, everyone at DEFEND contributes towards our dream of creating a cyber resilient world.
The benefits of working at DEFEND
In addition to working for a growing, dynamic NZ company, DEFEND offers the following benefits to all our DEFENDers
Diversity & Inclusion:
At DEFEND, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to creating an environment that enables all our team to thrive. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to the team and being our next DEFENDer.
Building a Cyber Resilient New Zealand
DEFEND are an independent agnostic cyber security partner. Security practice leading capability in: - Auditing and Compliance (NIST Framework) - Business C-Level/Board consultancy (Virtual CISO) - Cloud/Data Centre Connect - Service Provider independent compliance - Network (WAN/LAN/Wi-Fi/Telco) - Application performance & secure coding - End point and End User protection - Threat Education & Intelligence - BCP & DR DEFEND develop and provide managed cyber security outsourcing & consulting services across industry verticals. DEFEND support and assist customers to ensure they have access to the best people, process and technology to mitigate and reduce business risk from Cyber-attacks. DEFEND are a specialist threat protection, intelligence and detection company providing services across ANZ . DEFEND are heavily focus on end user centric threat management solutions. DEFEND provide guidance and leadership within your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP). We provide an aggregated security procurement management service to ensure our customer obtain the most effective access to services, solutions and pricing. Our objective is to attract only the most credible and capable people to join our team. We ensure our customers have a safe pair hands to call upon proactively and reactively in their time of need. If you want to join DEFEND or would allow us the privilege to become your partner then please contact us.
Offices: E1 17 Corinthian Drive, Auckland, Albany 0793, NZ
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