About CLS: CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies.

Requirements

by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use. CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market. Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people.

Compensation

+ 401(k) match +

range for this role. Job purpose: CLS is seeking a decisive technical analyst to handle our internal incident response lifecycle and ensure the operational resilience of critical financial infrastructure. The role will act as the incident handler for internal CLS security events and will be the bridge between SOC detections and executive crisis management, ensuring technical response is governed and documented.

Benefits

. Note: Disclosure as required by NJ

, including: Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days. 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.

Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.

Pay Transparency

Law of the expected salary

Responsibilities

: Incident handling: Act as the lead handler for level 3 incidents, coordinating and carrying out investigative tasks and containment, eradication and recovery in the ecosystem. Operational governance: Author and maintain playbooks and SOPs, ensuring alignment with internal processes, NIST 800-61 and associated frameworks. Technical readiness: Facilitate cyber incident response testing with regular tabletop exercises.

Security operations: Present weekday fusion calls and participate in the on-call and scheduled rotation. Analyze escalated SOC and info-sec incidents. Reporting: Design and author post-incident lessons learned reports and root cause analyses.

SME Consultancy: Provide IR input for internal audit and compliance Experience: 3-5 years cyber security analyst experience. Strong understanding of attacker methodologies and the cyber kill chain and MITRE ATT CK framework.

Requirements (FRBNY, GDPR, SOC, ISO, Etc.)

Qualifications

/Certifications Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity studies, Computer Science, or related discipline Security certification such as SANS GIAC (or equivalent) such as GCIH, GCFE or GCFA. High proficiency in log analysis (SIEM), EDR, antivirus and forensics tools Our commitment to employees: At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued.

Assistant Vice President, Cyber Security Analyst – Incident Response