Senior Governance, Risk and Compliance Specialist

The role is about:

We are looking for a Senior GRC Specialist to strengthen and mature our information security governance, risk and compliance function. Reporting to the Head of Information Security, you will develop and operate the frameworks, registers and processes that keep a regulated, multi-entity payments group compliant and audit-ready — across ISO 27001-aligned governance, DORA, GDPR, PCI DSS and operational resilience requirements.

This is a hands-on senior role with real ownership: you will build programs as well as run them, work with a modern GRC platform, and apply AI and automation to how the work itself gets done.

•Location: Onsite in Limassol, Cyprus or fully remote from Portugal or Poland

•Reporting to: Head of Information Security

What will you do:

•Developing, maintaining, and continuously improving information security policies, standards, and procedures aligned with ISO 27001 and applicable regulatory requirements.

•Managing the full policy lifecycle, including approval workflows, periodic reviews, ownership, and version control across the document estate.

•Maintaining the information security risk register, including risk identification, assessment, treatment tracking, and formal risk acceptance.

•Preparing risk reporting for management and governance committees, and tracking remediation actions through to closure.

•Supporting compliance activities under DORA, including the Register of Information, as well as PSD2 / EBA ICT guidelines, GDPR, and PCI DSS across our licensed entities.

•Contributing to operational resilience activities for our UK entity in line with FCA requirements.

•Managing the third-party risk management lifecycle, including due diligence, security questionnaires, risk rating, onboarding gates, and periodic reassessments.

•Maintaining the vendor register and contractual security requirements in collaboration with the Legal team.

•Coordinating internal and external audits, including Big Four ICT audits, regulator requests, and PCI QSA cycles, and managing the audit calendar.

•Owning evidence collection and maintaining an evidence library for reuse across audits, certifications, and client questionnaires.

•Administering and developing our GRC platform, including control monitoring, automated evidence collection, framework mapping, and reporting.

•Applying AI tools to day-to-day GRC activities, including policy drafting, gap analysis, evidence assembly, and questionnaire responses, while helping to automate recurring processes.

•Contributing to our AI governance programme, including the assessment of AI vendors, support of the AI system register, and alignment with emerging regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act.

What we need:

•3+ years of experience of similar experience in GRC, information security governance, IT audit or IT risk management

•Working knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001; exposure to DORA, GDPR or PCI DSS …

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