Information Security GRC Analyst III, Controls Assurance

Fanatics

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Fanatics seeks an Information Security GRC Analyst III, Controls Assurance to verify security controls across PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, SOC, and NIST baselines in a global corporate setting. You will work with business units, IT teams, and auditors to test controls, gather evidence, and report findings.

The role emphasizes practical risk-based judgments, collaboration across Fanatics' subsidiaries, and ongoing control library maintenance. NYC-based, on-site position.

Qualifications

Four years+ in IT audit, IT control testing, information security GRC.
Experience with PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, SOC or equivalent control baselines.
Experience driving recurring processes with stakeholders outside direct reporting lines.
Excellent written and verbal communication to explain technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

Execute control tests with owners, including sampling, evidence requests, and conclusions.
Communicate control requirements and testing results to control owners.
Prepare workpapers that withstand assessor review.
Evaluate evidence and identify non-substantial artifacts.
Support audits and service auditor engagements.
Manage user access review campaigns: population scoping and completion monitoring.
Collect and quality-check evidence for framework cycles.

Skills

IT audit

IT control testing

information security GRC

PCI DSS

SOX ITGC

SOC

risk-based assessment

communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in information security / cybersecurity / information systems

CISA certification

Tools

GRC platform

AI tools

PCI DSS tooling

Job description

About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About Us

The Role

The Information Security GRC Analyst III, Controls Assurance (Fanatics Corporate) sits at the center of how Fanatics proves its security controls actually work, testing across PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, SOC reporting, and our internal NIST-aligned control baselines. This is a Corporate-level role with direct exposure across the full Fanatics portfolio: you will work daily with business units, IT teams, Security Operations, and InfoSec GRC counterparts across our subsidiaries and brands, giving you a rare, enterprise-wide view of how a global, multi-brand organization operates and secures itself.

Working in partnership with the designated owner of each control set, you will execute assigned control testing, collect and evaluate evidence, support user access reviews and control exception administration, and contribute to findings tracking and control reporting. Control effectiveness is rarely a clean pass or fail; you will need to read the intent behind a control, work through the grey areas, and take a practical, risk-based approach to compensating controls, tailored to how each subsidiary or brand actually does business. Strong communication is central to the role: you will explain technical and non-technical control requirements clearly and consistently to control owners, and use that clarity to influence timely, positive adoption of controls and remediation.

Control baselines and framework control sets are established and owned within the GRC team, so this is a controls assurance role rather than a program build-out or control design role. A substantial portion of the work is recurring and deadline-driven, including access review cycles, evidence collection, and assessment calendars.

What You’ll Do

Execute assigned control tests in partnership with control set owners, including: sample selection, evidence requests, walkthroughs, and documented conclusions on operating effectiveness.
Communicate control requirements, testing results, and rationale clearly and consistently to control owners across technical and non-technical audiences, and use that clarity to influence timely, positive adoption of controls and remediation.
Prepare workpapers that withstand assessor review without rework.
Evaluate evidence critically, identifying artifacts that do not substantiate the control.
Support QSA, audit, and service auditor engagements, including evidence request lists and walkthrough preparation.
Support user access review campaigns: population scoping, reviewer assignments, completion monitoring, and verification that revocations were executed.
Collect and quality-check evidence for framework cycles, resolving gaps before assessor fieldwork.
Support the control exception process: intake, routing, compensating controls, expiry tracking, and re-review.
Apply practical, risk-based judgment to grey-area control questions, including whether a compensating control adequately addresses the underlying risk given how a specific subsidiary or brand operates.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual evidence collection.
Help maintain the control library: owners, test procedures, evidence requirements, testing frequency, and system mappings.
Support cross-framework mapping, including mapping internal baseline controls to the external requirements they satisfy.
Support findings tracking and remediation follow-up, retesting closed items rather than accepting closure on assertion.
Contribute to control reporting and metrics, and to workflow upkeep in the designated GRC platform.
Partner day-to-day with business units, IT teams, Security Operations, and InfoSec GRC counterparts across Fanatics' subsidiaries and brands, understanding how each operates in order to apply controls appropriately.
Build sufficient depth across control sets to provide backup coverage during leave, peak workload, or overlapping cycles.

What We're Looking For

Four years + in IT audit, IT control testing, information security GRC, or a related discipline; Big Four or regional firm IT audit experience applies directly.
Demonstrated experience executing control tests to a defined procedure, including sampling, evidence evaluation, and documented conclusions.
Experience with user access reviews, either administering campaigns or testing them as a control.
Exposure to at least one of PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, SOC, or an internal security control baseline.
Experience driving a recurring process across stakeholders outside a direct reporting line, with a record of following items to completion.
Curiosity and adaptability to understand how Fanatics' different subsidiaries and brands operate, and how that context shapes how a control should be applied and assessed for effectiveness.
Working knowledge of core control domains: access management and access reviews, privileged access, change management, SDLC, logging and monitoring, encryption, vulnerability and patch management, backup and recovery, and cloud platform fundamentals.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical and non-technical control concepts clearly and consistently to control owners, and to influence stakeholders toward timely, positive adoption of controls and remediation, even without direct authority over them.
Effective use of approved AI tools in day-to-day work, with sound judgment about where AI output can and cannot be relied upon in an audit context.
Organizational discipline, persistence, and judgment about when to escape.
Detail-oriented, with sound judgment for navigating grey areas in control descriptions and a practical, risk-based approach to evaluating compensating controls rather than a strict pass/fail mindset.
Bachelor's degree in information security, cybersecurity, information systems, accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred: CISA certification.
Preferred: exposure to two or more of PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, and SOC, including familiarity with PCI DSS v4.0.1, and testing against NIST 800-53 or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
Preferred: familiarity with an enterprise GRC or IRM platform.