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Monzo

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

Information Security Manager

Posted 6 days ago

Level
Leadership
Experience
Not stated
Work style
Remote
Pay
£76.5k to £95k

At a glance

The role in plain English

This is a 12-month fixed-term Information Security Manager role at Monzo, suitable for candidates with experience leading security projects and mentoring analysts. The position involves managing security initiatives, developing policies, and collaborating with teams across the bank. Day-to-day work includes project leadership, risk management, policy writing, and supporting analysts’ development. The role can be based in London, Cardiff, or fully remote within the UK.

What you'll do

  • Lead security projects across the security programme
  • Represent Security in cross-team projects and product launches
  • Write and maintain security policies and procedures
  • Mentor and develop Security Analysts
  • Collaborate with audit and risk teams on security controls

What they're looking for

Essential

  • Experience managing projects across security domains
  • Ability to lead multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work independently and with senior stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Working towards a recognised security qualification (e.g. CISSP)
  • Experience with GenAI technologies

Core skills

  • Risk management
  • Policy writing
  • Security governance
  • Mentoring
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Vulnerability management

Certifications mentioned

  • CISSP

The shape of the job

Technical depth

4/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

4/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

4/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

3/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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  1. 01Describe a security project you led from initiation to completion.
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About Monzo

Monzo is a UK-based bank offering personal, business, and youth accounts, as well as savings, investments, and credit cards.

Full job descriptionAs published by Monzo

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts , accounts for 16-17 year olds , a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save , invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

📍London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰£76,500 - £95,000 + Benefits ✨| ℹ️ This is a 12 month Fixed-Term contract

Our Information Security team ⭐

At Monzo, we’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. Keeping our bank safe and secure is a big part of making that happen.

Our Information Security Squad builds security processes that help us move at pace while protecting our customers. We work in partnership with teams across Monzo, including Product and Engineering, to help them create products our customers love.

In this role, you’ll lead security projects, help teams understand and manage risk, and support the development of our Security Analysts.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by...

  • Leading projects across our security programme, which has previously included third-party security, governance and vulnerability management.
  • Representing Security in projects across Monzo, including product launches, and helping teams identify and manage security risks.
  • Writing security policies and procedures with teams across Security and the wider bank.
  • Mentoring and developing our Security Analysts.
  • Keeping up with emerging security threats, technology and risks, and helping us prepare for what’s next.
  • Working with our internal audit and risk teams to make sure security controls are implemented and regularly assessed for effectiveness.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

  • You’re excited about making a difference to how we deliver information security at Monzo.
  • You’ve managed projects across a range of security domains and are comfortable leading several pieces of work at once.
  • You’re working towards a recognised security qualification, such as CISSP.
  • You communicate clearly in writing and conversation, and can explain complex topics to different audiences.
  • You work confidently and independently, including when engaging senior stakeholders, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
  • You enjoy using data to measure and improve your work, can interpret technical requirements, regulations and procedures, and are open to new approaches and technologies, including GenAI.

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply—even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰 £76,500 - £95,000

ℹ️This is a 12 month Fixed-Term contract

📍 This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits .

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

  • 20 min call with the recruiter
  • 30 min hiring manager call
  • 2 hours of technical and behavioural interviews

This process should take around 4-5 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog , 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

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