Information Security Risk Analyst II

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

US Bank is seeking an Information Security Risk Analyst II to evaluate complex security findings and manage risk across enterprise applications and infrastructure. You will independently manage findings from intake to remediation, analyzing risk, ownership, and control effectiveness while communicating risk to stakeholders.

The role requires strong analytical skills, ability to convey technical risk to non-technical audiences, and collaboration across teams to drive remediation and governance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in information security, cybersecurity risk management, or related field.
• Experience performing information security risk analysis or assessments.
• Experience evaluating findings and determining business impact.
• Knowledge of enterprise applications, infrastructure, controls, and defense-in-depth concepts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate security observations for legitimacy, severity, and business impact.
• Analyze architectures, infrastructure, controls, and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Manage a portfolio of security findings through the risk lifecycle.
• Map findings to security policies, standards, and ownership.
• Identify application or technology owners responsible for remediation.
• Collaborate with owners to develop corrective action plans.
• Translate security issues into business and technology risk.
• Maintain risk documentation and governance through closure.
• Facilitate cross-functional remediation discussions.
• Work independently on complex risk scenarios with minimal oversight.

Skills

Information security

Risk management

Security risk analysis

Stakeholder communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

ServiceNow IRM

Archer GRC

GRC platforms

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

U.S. Bank is seeking an Information Security Risk Analyst II to evaluate complex information security findings and manage risk across enterprise applications and infrastructure. This role combines technical security analysis, risk assessment, issues management, and stakeholder partnership to help the organization identify legitimate security risks and drive them through remediation and closure.

This person will independently manage a portfolio of security findings from initial intake and validation through ownership assignment, corrective action planning, remediation, and closure. They will analyze technical security concerns, determine business and technology impact, align findings with applicable policies and controls, and communicate clear risk treatment recommendations to application owners, technology teams, and business stakeholders.

Main Responsibilities:

• Evaluate security observations to determine legitimacy, severity, business impact, and appropriate risk treatment.
• Analyze application architectures, infrastructure environments, security controls, and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Manage a portfolio of active security findings through the full risk lifecycle.
• Map findings to applicable security policies, standards, controls, and business ownership.
• Identify the appropriate application or technology owners responsible for remediation.
• Partner with remediation owners to develop and execute corrective action plans.
• Evaluate root causes, control effectiveness, and the adequacy of proposed remediation.
• Translate technical security issues into clear business and technology risk.
• Maintain accurate risk documentation and lifecycle governance through closure.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions involving application, technology, security, and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to testing and validation of the findings management system, supporting efficient findings management and process enhancements.
• Work independently on complex security risk scenarios with minimal oversight.

Must Have Skills:

• Five or more years of experience in information security, cybersecurity risk management, compliance, or a related technical security discipline.
• Experience performing information security risk analysis or assessments.
• Experience evaluating security findings and determining technical and business impact.
• Knowledge of enterprise applications, infrastructure, security controls, and defense-in-depth concepts.
• Experience owning security findings, risk records, issues, or remediation activities through resolution.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to identify root causes and evaluate control effectiveness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to explain technical risks to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience influencing stakeholders and driving outcomes across multiple teams or business lines.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and take accountability for decisions.
• A technical security foundation that supports credible risk analysis.

Nice to Have Skills:

• ServiceNow IRM experience.
• Archer GRC experience.
• Experience with other GRC or enterprise risk management platforms.
• Information security governance or compliance experience.
• Issues management and corrective action plan experience.
• Enterprise control framework knowledge.
• Experience participating in platform migrations or large transformation initiatives.
• Technical experience in IAM, infrastructure security, network security, application security, or security engineering.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional remediation and risk discussions
• CRISC, CISA, CISSP, other security specific certs

Based Skills/Experience:

• - Typically a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• - Typically three to five years of relevant experience
• - Effective communication and collaboration skills
• - Ability to articulate complex technical issues in a clear and concise manner

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants .