About This Role
This senior GRC Analyst role is for an experienced and strategic professional to join an information security team. You will serve as a subject matter expert across governance, risk, and compliance, owning critical programs and driving process maturity. The role involves shaping the direction of the GRC program and ensuring the organization's risk and compliance posture keeps pace with an evolving regulatory and threat landscape.
Responsibilities
- Develop, review, and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring they remain current and aligned with business needs
- Manage the policy exception tracking process, including intake, review, and escalation
- Coordinate policy acknowledgment and sign-off across business units
- Support and help improve the organization's security awareness training program
- Prepare governance metrics and reporting for leadership and board-level stakeholders
- Own and maintain the enterprise risk register, ensuring risks are accurately documented, scored, and tracked
- Conduct risk assessments for new projects, systems, and vendors, as well as periodic reviews of existing risks
- Facilitate risk scoring and prioritization sessions with business and technical stakeholders
- Track risk treatment plans and follow up with owners to ensure timely remediation
- Manage the third-party vendor risk assessment program, including questionnaires and ongoing monitoring
- Support business impact analysis (BIA) and business continuity planning efforts
- Map and maintain control libraries aligned to frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR
- Coordinate internal and external audit engagements, including evidence collection and stakeholder communication
- Perform control testing and gap assessments, documenting findings and recommending remediation
- Track open audit findings through to closure
- Monitor regulatory and framework changes, assess organizational impact, and recommend updates
- Support data privacy compliance activities related to GDPR, CCPA, or other applicable regulations
- Own and administer the GRC platform (e.g., Archer, Vanta, Drata, ServiceNow GRC), driving adoption and continuous improvement
- Lead responses to complex customer security questionnaires, RFPs, and due diligence requests
- Serve as the compliance lead for incident response activities, ensuring documentation, notification obligations, and regulatory requirements are met
- Act as the primary GRC point of contact for IT, Legal, HR, Finance, and business unit teams - driving control ownership and accountability across the organization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
