Senior Cyber Issues & Risk Analyst

Global Payments; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Senior Cyber Issues Analyst to join its Cyber Risk Management team. You will evaluate control gaps, influence risk decisions and drive timely remediation across the enterprise.

The role partners with technology, risk, compliance and audit to translate findings into clear business risk and provide leaders with visibility into the organization’s cyber risk posture. A background in GRC and security domains is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in information security, cybersecurity risk management, information technology governance or a related discipline, including demonstrated success evaluating cybersecurity control gaps and managing issues, exceptions or remediation.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory requirements, including the NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls and PCI DSS.
• Working knowledge across key cybersecurity domains, including privileged access management, web application firewalls, vulnerability management, network segmentation, encryption, cloud security and endpoint protection, with the ability to assess risk holistically.
• Hands-on experience with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platforms, such as Archer, and the analytical judgment to develop clear, defensible recommendations in complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical cyber risk into clear business impact and influence stakeholders across technology, business, enterprise risk, compliance and audit teams without relying on direct reporting authority.

Responsibilities

• Drive cybersecurity issues toward timely resolution by influencing remediation owners, removing barriers and escalating emerging risks to strengthen accountability and reduce residual risk across the enterprise.
• Shape informed cyber risk decisions by evaluating control gaps, risk ratings, compensating controls and risk acceptance requests against the evolving threat landscape and business impact.
• Strengthen remediation outcomes by challenging and improving remediation plans to ensure they are technically sound, appropriately scoped and capable of delivering sustainable risk reduction within approved timelines.
• Turn complex cyber risk into actionable insight by identifying systemic control gaps, emerging themes and remediation trends that give senior leaders and governance teams clearer visibility into the organization's risk posture.
• Advance the Cyber Risk Management function by applying intelligent workflows, agentic artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and automation to accelerate risk insights, reduce manual effort and improve the consistency and effectiveness of issue management.

Skills

InfoSec risk management

Regulatory frameworks

GRC platforms

Risk-based remediation

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Archer

Job description

Global Payments is seeking a Senior Cyber Issues Analyst to join its Cyber Risk Management team. You will evaluate control gaps, influence risk decisions and drive timely remediation across the enterprise.

The role partners with technology, risk, compliance and audit to translate findings into clear business risk and provide leaders with visibility into the organization’s cyber risk posture. A background in GRC and security domains is essential.