Cyber GRC Specialist

Brown Investment Advisory & Trust•Baltimore, MD

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Brown Advisory is seeking a Cyber GRC Specialist to support and mature the firm's governance, risk, compliance, and control-management routines. This role is designed for someone who can translate security requirements into practical business processes, drive evidence and accountability, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders. As part of a lean Information Security team within a mid-sized financial services organization, this individual will serve as a central coordinator for cyber risk, policy management, control testing, audit readiness, client and regulatory response support, and vulnerability remediation governance. The role ensures the process, ownership, exceptions, reporting, and governance routines are working, rather than being a hands-on vulnerability engineering role.

Requirements

3-6 years of experience in cyber GRC, information security, technology risk, IT audit, compliance, or related control-management work preferred.
Working knowledge of ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, SEC/FINRA expectations, privacy requirements, or comparable control frameworks.
Experience supporting audits, evidence collection, control testing, policy updates, issue tracking, or risk-register maintenance in a regulated environment; financial services experience preferred.
Cyber risk registers, exception management, control testing, evidence management, policy lifecycle management, and audit coordination.
GRC or trust-management platforms such as Vanta, Archer, ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust, Drata, or similar tools.
Vulnerability management governance, including prioritization, remediation tracking, aging analysis, exception workflows, and executive reporting.
Strong knowledge of cyber security controls across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, data protection, application security, and third-party risk.
Excellent writing, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to turn technical risk into clear business language.
Practical judgment about when to enforce, when to escalate, and when to help the business find a workable control path.
Demonstrates curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, improve efficiency, and thoughtfully leverage new technologies and tools, including AI-enabled productivity solutions.
Take ownership and move initiatives forward without constant oversight.
Balance technical depth, process discipline, and sound business judgment.
Approach risk management pragmatically rather than theoretically.
Thrive in collaborative, high-accountability environments.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.
Bring an entrepreneurial mindset to building and improving security capabilities.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization (e.g., H-1B , O-1, F-1 (OPT), TN, or any other non-immigrant visa classifications that require employer support or sponsorship).

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in cyber security, information systems, risk management, business, or a relevant field preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
CISA, CRISC, CISM, Security+, ISO 27001 Foundation/Lead Implementer, or similar professional designation preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Support and mature core cyber governance routines, including policy management, control ownership, risk acceptance, exception handling, standards maintenance, and periodic leadership reporting.
Maintain the cyber risk register and partner with technology and business owners to document risk decisions, remediation plans, due dates, dependencies, and residual risk.
Serve as a key administrator and process contributor for ISO and security-risk management platforms such as Vanta or similar tools.
Coordinate evidence collection, control testing, audit requests, client due diligence responses, regulatory requests, and recurring compliance deliverables.
Translate ISO 27001, regulatory, client, and internal security expectations into practical controls and operating procedures appropriate for Brown Advisory's size and risk profile.
Facilitate cross-functional communications for security change, SaaS inventory, policy enforcement, control adoption, and risk remediation.
Coordinate vulnerability management governance, including scan-result intake, prioritization routines, remediation tracking, exception handling, and reporting.
Partner with security engineers, infrastructure teams, application owners, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and Client Service to close control gaps in a business-aligned manner.
Develop clear metrics for control effectiveness, audit readiness, exceptions, overdue remediation, and recurring governance activities.
Identify process improvements that make security governance more repeatable, transparent, and useful without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.