Senior Governance & Issue Risk Analyst

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google’s gTech Risk group seeks a senior risk professional to help protect users by identifying control gaps, collaborating with stakeholders, and guiding risk-based engineering solutions. You will work within the Risk Strategy & Engagement pillar supporting strategic intelligence and enterprise risk governance across gTech.

Responsibilities include driving RCA on major incidents, managing end-to-end issue lifecycle within GRC, and coordinating with engineering to convert gaps into automated

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a project management or a customer-facing role.
• Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software coding, or customer-side web technologies.
• 5 years of experience in issue management, incident response, audit, or enterprise risk governance.
• Experience conducting root cause analyses and driving complex, cross-functional remediation programs.
• Experience navigating dual-rating risk frameworks and managing executive-level risk escalations.
• Familiarity with GRC platforms and issue tracking systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive robust root cause analysis (RCA) routines for all high/critical operational incidents and control failures.
• Manage the end-to-end issue management lifecycle, ensuring findings are mapped back to specific controls and issues in our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform.
• Enforce policy adherence and manage escalation workflows based on calibrated enterprise risk ratings.
• Facilitate Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) governance forums, tracking remediation plans and ensuring process owners meet established SLAs.
• Partner with the Risk Solutions Engineering team to ensure that identified control gaps are converted into requirements for automated technical safeguards.

Skills

Project management

Customer-facing experience

Analytics

GRC platforms

Executive risk escalations

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Google’s gTech Risk group seeks a senior risk professional to help protect users by identifying control gaps, collaborating with stakeholders, and guiding risk-based engineering solutions. You will work within the Risk Strategy & Engagement pillar supporting strategic intelligence and enterprise risk governance across gTech.

Responsibilities include driving RCA on major incidents, managing end-to-end issue lifecycle within GRC, and coordinating with engineering to convert gaps into automated