Senior GRC & Process Improvement Analyst

Sharp Solutions Inc; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Solutions Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a Governance, Risk, and Process Management Program aimed at modernizing IT governance, strengthening controls, and improving processes through structured improvement initiatives.

The role focuses on operating-model development, stakeholder management, and delivering actionable roadmaps, documentation, dashboards, and implementation plans for executives and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business analysis, process management, governance, or risk management.
• Experience analyzing and improving complex enterprise or IT business processes.
• Experience developing current-state/future-state models, requirements, workflows, and operating models.
• Strong understanding of IT governance, risk management, internal controls, and process management.
• Experience with COBIT or other IT governance/control frameworks.
• Experience developing risk registers, action trackers, decision logs, dashboards, and reports.
• Strong analytical, documentation, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess current governance, risk management, controls, and processes including roles, decision rights, workflows, and maturity.
• Develop target operating models defining governance structures and ownership.
• Apply COBIT-aligned governance across IT functions.
• Map controls to COBIT objectives and identify gaps and improvements.
• Create and maintain roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
• Standardize intake, evaluation, prioritization, review, escalation, and tracking processes.
• Maintain governance, risk, issue, and process registers and backlogs.
• Support risk-treatment planning including ownership and mitigation activities.
• Design future-state processes with clear ownership and performance measures.
• Produce implementation-ready documentation and templates (RACI, SOPs, charters).
• Develop and operate a Tasker Tracking System and executive dashboards.

Skills

Business analysis

Governance

Risk management

Process improvement

Operating-model development

Stakeholder management

Executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration/IT/CS/Management or related field

Job description

Sharp Solutions Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a Governance, Risk, and Process Management Program aimed at modernizing IT governance, strengthening controls, and improving processes through structured improvement initiatives.

The role focuses on operating-model development, stakeholder management, and delivering actionable roadmaps, documentation, dashboards, and implementation plans for executives and cross-functional teams.