VP, Business Group Chief Information Security Officer in Toronto

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The Vice-President, Business Group Information Security Officer, SLAM (BG CISO) serves as a senior security leader and partner to the Business Group leadership team and Business Group President. Acting as the senior security executive for the Business Group and the primary bridge between the business and enterprise Security function, the BG CISO provides independent oversight and challenge of cyber risk, resilience and security outcomes across the business group. The BG CISO is accountable for cyber risk, resilience, and security outcomes for Sun Life Asset Management, a global asset management platform with approximately $1.6 trillion in AUM, established to strengthen collaboration across MFS Investment Management, SLC Management, Sun Life’s stake in Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management, the pension risk transfer business and the broader company.

Reporting directly to the global Chief Security Officer, this role is responsible for ongoing emphasis on ensuring full capabilities across Sun Life Asset Management are consistently leveraged to deliver value and innovation. Direct and indirect reports include a team of ~10 security leads and advisors aligned to Asset Management business priorities, product/platform risk, incident readiness, and stakeholder engagement. The BG CISO partners closely with executives, technology leaders, risk partners, and the enterprise security team to protect critical assets, enable innovation, strengthen resilience, and ensure risks are understood and managed within the organization’s risk appetite.

The BG CISO is accountable for providing independent business-aligned security oversight while enabling growth, innovation and transformation across the Business Group. The role translates complex cyber and security risks into business impacts and shapes strategy, investments, priorities, and operating decisions across the Business Group.

Major Accountabilities

• Serve as the primary Security advisor to the Business Group executive team and Business Group President.
• Accountable for defining and driving the Business Group security strategy, aligned to enterprise security priorities and business objectives.
• Ensure security considerations are integrated into business strategy, transformation initiatives, digital strategies, and operational decision-making.
• Report significant changes in risk to appropriate levels of leadership on a periodic and event-driven basis.
• Exercise independent challenge and elevate material cyber, technology, resilience and security risks through appropriate governance forums when risk exposure exceeds established risk appetite or remediation commitments are not achieved.
• Deliver timely insights and data to enable informed executive decision-making, prioritization, and risk-based trade-offs.
• Influence and shape multi-year security, resilience, and technology risk investment strategies, ensuring resource allocation aligns with business priorities, regulatory expectations and evolving threat landscapes.
• Identify emerging threats, trends, and regulatory developments that may impact the Business Group and proactively develop mitigation strategies.

Qualifications

• University degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Technology, Risk Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Relevant security certifications preferred (CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, or equivalent).
• 15+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, risk management, or related disciplines.
• Experience advising senior global executives on technology and cyber risk matters.
• Experience operating in highly regulated environments.
• Proven ability to influence strategic and investment decisions at an executive level.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation, risk, or security initiatives.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate combines the credibility of a security leader with the mindset of a business executive. They are a trusted advisor to senior leaders, capable of enabling growth and innovation while ensuring risks are effectively understood, governed, and managed.