Cybersecurity Program Strategist

Overview

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Do you want to take the first step in making Filipinos’ lives better everyday? Here in GCash we want to stay at the forefront of the FinTech industry by creating innovative, meaningful, and convenient financial solutions for the nation

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Below are the responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and outputs associated with the role.

Responsibilities

• Drive Strategic Alignment: Ensures people, plans, resources, and processes within Cybersecurity and Fraud Management (CSFM) are aligned with GCash’s strategic objectives.
• Lead Strategic Planning & Execution: Facilitates department-wide strategic planning by identifying risks, opportunities, and aligning initiatives with business direction; oversees implementation across functions to ensure timely and effective delivery.
• Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Engagement: Builds strong partnerships with key stakeholders; sets priorities, mobilizes cross-functional teams, and ensures alignment across enterprise initiatives.
• Program Governance & Reporting: Curates high-impact reports, including Management Reports and Leadership updates, to communicate progress, risks, and support needed; supports audit, risk, and compliance closure as part of governance.
• Capability & Transformation Management: Aligns capability roadmaps with strategic priorities; monitors and reports value streams of transformation efforts across CSFM to drive sustainable and measurable impact.
• Operational Excellence & Talent Uplift: Promotes continuous improvement in ways of working and contributes to team development by sharing materials and insights that build skills and elevate performance.
• Budget & Project Oversight: Supports oversight of budget utilization and selected strategic projects to ensure value delivery and resource optimization.
• Presentation & Decision Support: Crafts and delivers business presentations and reports that provide actionable insights for informed decision-making by senior leadership.

Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviors

• Strategic and Analytical Thinking
  • Systems Thinking – Understands interdependencies across cyber, fraud, and business systems to anticipate risk and drive effective interventions.
  • Critical and Conceptual Thinking – Analyzes complex threat environments and strategic data to shape long-term security and fraud transformation agendas.
  • Scenario and Strategic Planning – Develops forward-looking strategies based on threat modeling, risk scenarios, and emerging trends.
  • Qualitative Research – Gathers insights from threat intelligence, user behavior, and ecosystem patterns to inform decisions.
• Execution and Change Leadership
  • Project and Program Management – Oversees the execution of cybersecurity and fraud initiatives across cross-functional teams.
  • Change Management – Leads and supports transformation efforts to shift mindsets, adopt new controls, and scale secure practices across the organization.
  • Facilitation – Drives strategic workshops, retrospectives, and alignment sessions across tech, operations, and business teams.
• Innovation and Design Integration
  • Design Thinking Practice – Applies user-centered and secure-by-design principles in shaping fraud prevention and cybersecurity programs.
  • Design Creation and Development – Develops frameworks, visual strategies, and governance models tailored to complex security environments.
  • Solution-Oriented Mindset – Proactively identifies gaps and crafts practical, scalable solutions to security and fraud management challenges.
  • Context-Aware Design – Designs solutions with awareness of business context, user behavior, risk appetite, and organizational dynamics.
• Communication and Influence
  • Business Presentation Delivery – Crafts compelling narratives on risks, opportunities, and strategic initiatives for senior leadership.
  • Visual and Verbal Communication – Synthesizes complex technical topics into digestible, action-oriented messages.
  • Proposal Writing Development – Produces high-quality proposals and investment cases for key initiatives.
  • Stakeholder Management – Navigates across technical and non-technical groups, aligning priorities and driving support.
• Data and Insight Visualization
  • Data and Information Visualization – Translates risk, performance, and threat data into meaningful visuals that support decision-making.

Deliverables

• Strategy Recommendations
• Management Presentations
• Performance Analyses
• Competitive Analyses
• Strategy Frameworks
• Workshops / Brownbag Sessions

What We Offer

Opportunity for career growth and development in the #1 FinTech company in the country. Working with a dynamic and highly collaborative team who want to change the game. A company that values their people with highly competitive and flexible compensation and benefits package.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales

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