Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

JOB PURPOSE

The Security Analyst will play a pivotal role in supporting the development, enhancement, and execution of our Security capabilities. This position involves coordinating processes, procedures, and workflows for Security tooling, monitoring, and incident response. Collaboration with technical and non-technical teams is essential to ensure comprehensive security measures. The role requires a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential security threats.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• · Reviewing cloud configuration against best practices
• · Supporting the day-to-day interface with Fastmarkets outsourced MSSP SOC team
• · Taking a hands on approach with our infosec tools
• · Working in cross functional teams to support projects and change
• · Assisting the implementation of the security strategy and roadmap planning
• · Contributing to security documentation (e.g playbooks, use cases, policies and processes)
• · Analysing compliance with security policies to identify control gaps.
• · Being an active member in the information security incident response team
• · Identifying and registering risks in partnership with business team
• · Taking part in the on-call rota
• · Configuring security tooling to adequately protect Fastmarkets

KEY INTERFACES

• · Senior Security Analyst
• · Head of Information Security
• · Information Security team
• · MSSP (SOC) and 3rd parties
• · IT teams
• · Business teams

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• · Demonstrable experience in handling InfoSec incidents and data breaches.
• · Exhibit technical proficiency in cloud services, including security and best practices.
• · Display broad knowledge of security tooling such as CNAPP, WAF,, SIEM, DLP, EDR, email security, and vulnerability management
• · Stay up-to-date with the latest cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and technological advancements. An understanding of security frameworks
• · Able to document and organise processes
• · A self-starter who is confident in communicating with business and technology partners
• · Ability to prioritise workloads and problem-solve
• · Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) across different functions
• · Possess an understanding of how a SOC functions

Important note: This role is required to take part in the on-call rota for incident response, this may include evenings, weekends and public holidays.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.