Compliance Job Description

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Senior Security Risk and Compliance Analyst

About The Job:
Essential Job Functions:
Qualifications:



Gather security risk data, perform risk ranking qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Analyze security risks using real-world security data and systems automation.
Frequently document and communicate security risks, collaborating with a range of stakeholders from individual contributors to senior leadership levels.
Contribute to security program development by identifying new or emerging opportunities to apply security principles and technologies.
Analyze the security of new or existing applications, software, or specialized utility programs and provide risk recommendation.
Support strategic and technical initiatives, perform Operational and Technical Risk Assessments, manage Risk Acceptance activities, develop risk posture and remediation recommendations.
Monitor and evaluate security measures to protect against reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the privacy, security or integrity of protected information.
Be an integral member of the risk team to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships across the company to aid in achieving consensus, expectation setting, training and awareness, and promote consistency and improvement in our processes.
Contribute to the production and improvement of the content, quality, and timing of security governance, risk and compliance analysis and reporting.
Own and drive activities related to the remediation of technical security and compliance risks with cross-functional teams, including, but not limited to, leading meetings, working to assign, track work items, and producing reports.
Preferred Qualifications:
5+ years of related work experience in Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) or relevant Compliance roles in the tech industry.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, or a related field.
Have driven several security and/or operational risk processes within a company with a modern risk oversight function.
Experience supervising the design and operation of risk & control assessments to target different levels of information (e.g., RCSA vs. a service level assessment).
Experience with risk registers and helping prioritize security related work.
Can implement a solution (design), operational plan, and roadmap to achieve goals.
Experience implementing agile use cases in a GRC technology solution.
Executive presence: can represent a vision and build consensus across a variety of partners.
Knows how to estimate work effort and incubate skill sets to achieve team goals.
Has advanced knowledge of common security risks, vulnerabilities, and threats and can escort these issues through triage / risk treatment conversations.
Validated understanding of relevant information security frameworks, including related regulatory compliance requirements, such as ISO 27001/2 (including ISO 27017 & 18), FedRAMP, SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, CIS Top 20, PCI DSS, NIST CSF / 800-53, HIPAA.
Strong knowledge of audit and risk management methodologies, such as SOX, COBIT, NIST RMF / 800-37 / 800-30.
Strong understanding of risk quantification principles and experiencing implementing FAIR-like approach for quantifying and reporting risks.
Hands-on experience with data analytics and business intelligence dashboarding tools (e.g., Jira, Power BI) and with agile project management tools (e.g., Jira).
Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using your technical expertise and problem solving abilities to prioritize and manage blocking issues.
Ability to ramp up quickly and learn new technologies with minimal lag time.
Able to discuss issues at technical and business levels with audiences of various backgrounds.
Experience in a high growth business environment is a plus.
Bachelors degree in Security, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field preferred.
SaaS and data management industry experience is a plus.
Professional certifications in Information Security or Risk Management (e.g., CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CSX-P, CISSP, CCSK) is a plus.