Senior Security GRC Analyst & Compliance Lead

Early Warning Services LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Plan with match

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a lead for Security Governance, Risk Analytics, and Compliance to enhance audits, assessments, and evidence management. You will design repeatable processes, drive automation, and partner with Security, Technology, and business teams to strengthen compliance readiness.

The role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration, mature documentation, and clear ownership of assessment activities.

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 audit, control testing, regulatory readiness, or a comparable operational governance discipline.
• Demonstrated understanding of control environments, evidence requirements, audit and assessment processes, issue management, and remediation tracking.
• Experience translating security or compliance requirements into practical processes, operating procedures, or guidance for business and technology stakeholders.
• Demonstrated program, project, or workstream management skills, including the ability to coordinate cross‑functional activities with competing priorities, dependencies, and ownership.
• Experience identifying root causes and implementing sustainable process or workflow improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing process documentation, stakeholder guidance, management reporting, or executive‑level summaries.
• Demonstrated ability to build stakeholder alignment and influence outcomes without relying on direct authority.
• Experience working with GRC, workflow, reporting, collaboration, or comparable enterprise systems.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to evidence quality, documentation, traceability, and follow‑through.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Security governance

Risk & compliance

Info security

IT audit

Regulatory readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

GRC platforms

Confluence

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a lead for Security Governance, Risk Analytics, and Compliance to enhance audits, assessments, and evidence management. You will design repeatable processes, drive automation, and partner with Security, Technology, and business teams to strengthen compliance readiness.

The role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration, mature documentation, and clear ownership of assessment activities.