IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation 2–5 weeks

Job summary

U.S. Bank in Minneapolis seeks an IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist to oversee security controls, data protection, and control documentation across the organization. You will partner with Control Owners, risk partners, and IT teams to ensure evidence-supported controls.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years in GRC, with strong analytical skills and a proactive approach to control design, validation, and audits. On-site role with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of relevant experience in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
• Strong understanding of Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation of security controls and technologies to protect information assets.
• Support governance, development, maintenance, validation, and oversight of the ISS control environment.
• Collaborate with Control Owners, process owners, risk partners, and auditors to ensure controls are well designed and evidenced.

Skills

GRC controls

Risk assessment

Control documentation

Audit support

Data quality

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist is responsible for oversees the implementation of security controls and technologies to protect the organization's information assets, including data encryption, access controls, and intrusion detection and prevention systems.

The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist supports the governance, development, maintenance, validation, and ongoing oversight of the Information Security Services (ISS) control environment. The position partners with Control Owners, Business Process Owners, risk partners, technology and cybersecurity teams, auditors, and other stakeholders to help ensure business processes and controls are appropriately designed, accurately documented, effectively maintained, and supported by sufficient evidence.

The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist serves as a subject-matter resource throughout the control lifecycle, assisting stakeholders with the development of new controls and business processes, modification of existing controls, control ownership changes, control documentation, change-management activities, annual attestations, data-quality reviews, audit and regulatory requests, and control validation activities.

The role is expected to exercise independent judgment when evaluating control documentation, proposed changes, supporting evidence, and alignment between documented control requirements and actual execution. The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist also works directly with Control Owners and Process Owners to identify documentation and/or control-environment gaps and facilitate appropriate corrective action.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Good understanding of Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience within Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), cybersecurity controls, technology risk, internal controls, or related discipline.
• Experience developing, reviewing, maintaining, and validating controls and supporting control documentation.
• Experience evaluating control design, execution, evidence, and alignment between documented requirements and operational practices.
• Experience with business-process governance and analyzing relationships among processes, risks, controls, systems, and accountable owners.
• Experience facilitating control walkthroughs, readiness reviews, quality reviews, or similar control-validation activities.
• Experience supporting internal audit, control testing, quality assurance, regulatory reviews, issue remediation, or corrective-action activities.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with demonstrated ability to identify documentation, execution, ownership, data-quality, or control-environment gaps.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Ability to be flexible and adapt to change
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal

Location expectations:

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

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here .

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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