Technical Writer, Information Security (6 months)

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001, goeasy operates two main business units. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau, easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $45,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our vision to provide everyday Canadians the path for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 2000 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future.

We are seeking a highly talented Technical Writer (6 months) to join our growing security function and to lead the development, maintenance, and revision of policies, standards, procedures, work instructions, and guidelines of security programs and related activities.

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide a framework to create a complete IT Security governance landscape to build the policy foundations.
• Partner effectively with the security awareness team to communicate new policies and spread general awareness about policy set
• Creating appropriate standards (eg NIST, ISO, OSFI, ISF, PCI, SOX,  CoBIT), in support of the policies and/or regulatory requirements to align with enterprise security strategy
• Create procedures to adhere to the supporting functions and help assist in framing the procedures to the respective departments.
• Partner with internal teams to ensure policies meet the needs and goals and test compliance with our policies
• Collaborate with other departments (Infrastructure, Development, Legal, HR, Finance, etc.) on cross-functional policies
• Gather and store artifacts to prepare for audits and support IT audit functions.
• Stay abreast of legal and regulatory changes that could impact our policies
• Performing detailed cyber risk assessment and due-diligence on third parties, when needed.
• Provide training and awareness on policy life cycle
• Perform other duties as assigned

What You Bring To The Role

• Technical designations such as CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CEH, CGEIT, ITIL, PCI QSA, COBIT or CISM.
• Bachelor or Masters degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering or Business
• Experience or interest in IT and/or Information Security with 10+ years of industry experience.
• Excellent writing skills, with experience as a writer or technical editor a plus
• Experience drafting corporate policies or working in document management 
• Strong attention to detail, organization skills, and time management

Keys to your success

• Solid mix of business and technical capabilities
• Ability to develop and manage relationships, identify cyber security and resilience opportunities with clients and propose solutions that meet the clients' needs.
• Ability to manage cyber security projects, meet deadlines and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Strong collaborative qualities when working in a team and the ability to be develop as the subject matter expert in a given cybersecurity field.
• Clear, articulate and confident written and verbal communication skills, including client reports and presentations, papers and articles.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada.   Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire.  We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

To learn more about our great company please click the links below:

http://goeasy.com/careers/