Compliance & Audit Specialist for Cyber Defense Center

If you enjoy working at the intersection of security, compliance, and global stakeholder management, this role is for you.

You will join the Allianz Cyber Defense Center (ACDC), a global team operating 24/7 to protect Allianz’s systems, employees, and customer data from evolving cyber threats. In this role, you will act as a key link between security operations, governance teams, and business stakeholders, ensuring that our incident response processes and controls meet the highest regulatory and compliance standards.

As a Compliance & Audit Specialist, you will play a central role in shaping and maintaining audit-ready processes, supporting critical regulatory initiatives such as DORA, and continuously improving how security compliance is embedded across the organization.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an international environment, contribute to a global transformation, and have a direct impact on how security and compliance are managed at scale within a leading financial services organization.

What you do

• Define and manage audit processes end-to-end, including structured evidence gathering, documentation, and preparation of audit-ready materials
• Support internal and external audit activities targeting the global security incident process and ensure timely delivery of audit evidence
• Oversee implementation of security controls in collaboration with the IS Governance function and create actionable compliance plans
• Identify opportunities for controls automation and continuous monitoring
• Support the development and continuous improvement of the global security incident response process
• Contribute by the implementation of regulatory requirements (e.g., DORA)
• Act as liaison between the ACDC, local/global IT, other InfoSec functions, IS Governance function and third parties
• Support in the compliance process for third party providers
• Collaborate with the Allianz Group-wide IT and Information Security community
• Consult on local Information Security assurance reviews (logging concepts, security playbooks, etc.)

• +5 years of experience in compliance, audit, governance and information security
• Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration in combination with IT or equivalent
• Knowledge of enterprise security control frameworks, IT incident management, and strategic incident response design
• Thorough understanding of the European regulatory environment applicable to financial institutions (DORA, GDPR, NIS2, etc.)
• Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work independently in an international, multi-location team with global stakeholders
• Professional curiosity, high degree of professionalism, problem-solving and a proactive mindset with out-of-the-box thinking
• Strong ability to interact with both technical colleagues and non-technical staff in exceptional situations to ensure correct actions are taken and communication partners collaborate

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.