GRC Security Officer

Who we are

Yoco was founded in 2015, and has since processed over R100 billion in digital payments for over 400,000 businesses in South Africa. We’re breaking down barriers and unlocking economic opportunities that enable people to thrive.

We have over 330 team members across our key hubs in South Africa and the Netherlands, all with a bias for boldness, and a passion for simple, progressive solutions. We believe in uniting different people to solve hard problems together.

Our mission of making society more equal takes a variety of people, with different backgrounds and points of view, so we can keep building solutions that work for and include everyone.

Yoco is growing, and as we grow we have compelling challenges ahead of us.

Growing means we’re enabling more self-employed people and businesses to thrive every day. It also means that ambitious problem-solvers with big ideas are challenged, stimulated and will thrive at Yoco.

We don’t stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and each other. We’re constantly evolving — and we’re doing it fast.

Grow With Us.

Your home team at Yoco:

The security team at Yoco forms part of our rapidly growing Cloud Engineering & ICT function and is responsible for infrastructure, cloud, platform, application and security operations. Working closely with our expansion teams, our IT team and product delivery teams you’d ensure that our processes and systems are following best practices when it comes to security.

Similarly to the other teams which make up the function, one of the Security team’s key goals is to enable and contribute to a solid foundation on which all our products and services can be built upon. The teams strive to not be blockers and provide as much autonomy as possible to the areas they support and work alongside.

The role:

Working at one of the fastest-growing fintech’s in Africa means you’ll be solving some unique challenges that we’re faced with. Yoco seeks to identify a highly proactive and technical individual with proven talent in security risk and compliance, process development, policy or standard creation, and translating technical controls to actionable results.

The successful candidate will work alongside the rest of the security team to ensure policies, procedures, and guidelines align with regulatory requirements and security frameworks; assess internal and external risks; and ensure ongoing compliance with security governance and best practice.

You will work with other internal teams and external auditors to ensure Yoco meets it’s security-related compliance obligations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the Group Risk and Compliance program at Yoco as it relates to information security

• Author and maintain security policies & standards

• Be responsible for managing the PCI DSS and PCI PIN programme within Yoco

• Work with relevant teams to review procedures and processes to maintain compliance

• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders when there is a requirement to obtain certifications in new markets

Key Requirements:

• Knowledge and experience of security-related industry best practice

• Has implemented security-related industry standards

• Has performed risk assessments and/ or gap assessments

• Coordinated PCI-DSS and/or PCI-PIN security programs

• Prior experience in the payments industry

• Great attention to detail

• The ability to distil complex requirements into something tangible for non-experts to understand
  
  
  

  What’s next
  If you qualify for this position, and our mission and values resonate with you, please apply.
  Please note that this is a remote based position and we are open to applications from candidates based in South Africa.
  We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply and ask that you please send your application in English and help us reduce unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV.
  
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  Core Values - Our way of working to create value & grow
  Core Behaviours - How we show up, engage & treat each other
  
  Join us on a meaningful journey at Yoco, and help enable our merchants to thrive through Open Commerce!

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