Lead Security Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst

Early Warning (Zelle); Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Warning (Zelle) in Scottsdale, AZ, with hybrid work options in major cities, seeks a leader for Security Governance, Risk Analytics and Compliance. You will improve audit readiness, evidence management, and remediation collaboration across Security, Technology, Risk, Audit and business teams.

The role focuses on building repeatable processes for audits, assessments and regulatory requests, guiding cross-functional stakeholders to meet obligations and strengthen the organization's security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 7 years of experience or portfolio consistent with role.
• Relevant experience in security governance, risk and compliance, information security, technology risk, IT audit.

Responsibilities

• Establish repeatable security audits, assessments, and evidence collection processes.
• Define intake, ownership, evidence, review, escalation, and closure practices with Security and risk partners.
• Identify workflow and automation opportunities to improve audit readiness.
• Maintain visibility into compliance activities with governance, workflow, and reporting platforms.
• Develop reusable evidence packages, narratives, evidence maps, templates, playbooks, checklists, and guidance.
• Coordinate remediation and monitor adherence to controls and commitments.

Skills

Security governance

Risk analytics

Compliance

Automation

Audit readiness

Evidence management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GRC platforms

Workflow tooling

Job description

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle, Paze, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position supports the Security Governance, Risk Analytics, and Compliance function by improving the effectiveness, consistency, and scalability of security compliance activities. The role establishes repeatable operating practices for audits, assessments, evidence management, compliance obligations, and remediation activities while helping Security, Technology, Risk, Audit, and business stakeholders understand and meet applicable requirements.

The position serves as a lead partner for complex compliance activities, improving evidence quality, clarifying accountability, identifying recurring process gaps, and developing practical solutions that reduce unnecessary effort while strengthening audit and assessment readiness. The role uses data, workflow improvements, automation, and cross-functional coordination to improve compliance outcomes and support the organization's broader security and risk management objectives.

Essential Functions

• Establish and improve repeatable processes for security audits, assessments, customer requests, regulatory activities, control reviews, evidence collection, and related compliance obligations.
• Define and maintain clear intake, triage, ownership, evidence, review, escalation, and closure practices in coordination with Security stakeholders and first-line risk management partners.
• Identify and implement workflow and automation opportunities that improve audit readiness, evidence management, compliance tracking, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain visibility into compliance activities through appropriate GRC, workflow, collaboration, and reporting platforms, including clear ownership, due dates, status, dependencies, blockers, and closure evidence.
• Develop reusable evidence packages, control narratives, evidence maps, templates, playbooks, checklists, and guidance for recurring compliance activities.
• Review evidence and compliance responses for completeness, consistency, traceability, and readiness before submission to audit, assessment, regulatory, or customer stakeholders.
• Partner with Security, Technology, and business subject matter experts to identify recurring audit and assessment issues, reduce duplicative requests, and address root causes of evidence and process gaps.
• Monitor adherence to applicable security controls, standards, procedures, remediation commitments, and assessment outcomes; identify overdue, incomplete, or ineffective activities and facilitate appropriate escalation.
• Coordinate findings, observations, and remediation activities by establishing clear ownership, target dates, validation requirements, supporting evidence, escalation paths, and closure criteria.
• Maintain alignment between operational tracking, GRC records, remediation documentation, and governance or leadership reporting, as applicable.
• Develop and report metrics related to compliance workload, cycle time, evidence quality, service-level performance, aging items, recurring requests, remediation progress, and closure readiness.
• Analyze audit, assessment, control, issue, and compliance data to identify recurring themes, systemic process opportunities, emerging concerns, and areas requiring leadership attention.
• Prepare clear reporting and supporting narratives for Security leadership, cross-functional governance forums, auditors, regulators, customers, and other stakeholders, as appropriate.
• Translate compliance requirements into practical operating guidance for business and technology teams and provide support that enables stakeholders to understand requirements, ownership, expected evidence, and completion criteria.
• Support retrospectives and continuous-improvement activities following significant audits, assessments, customer reviews, or remediation efforts.
• Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically has 7 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role.
• Relevant experience in security governance, risk and compliance, information security, technology risk, IT audi