GRC Analyst | Remote, USA

Optiv • Overland Park, KS

20h • Remote

About The Position

The GRC Analyst provides recurring governance, risk, and compliance operational support in a managed-services environment. This client-dedicated role supports designated clients and their defined GRC service requirements, using client-owned or client-approved systems during service windows established for assigned engagements. The analyst is accountable for accurate, timely, and traceable execution of assigned work and supports control owners, risk owners, auditors, and service leadership while escalating exceptions and decisions outside their authority.

The position covers access reporting and account reconciliation; system activity, audit-trail, and evidence review; compliance and audit support; GRC and third-party risk workflow administration; and service delivery, quality, and information handling. Work is performed according to approved systems, procedures, access restrictions, review criteria, data-handling requirements, and service priorities. The analyst may make routine record-maintenance, queue-management, and evidence-organization decisions consistent with approved standards, but does not independently approve access or third parties, accept risk, interpret legal or regulatory requirements, design controls, determine control effectiveness, approve control exceptions, or make material process changes unless specifically delegated.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of relevant experience in GRC, audit support, access governance, compliance operations, cybersecurity, risk management, third-party risk operations, or a related control function.
• Working knowledge of access governance, account status and ownership, elevated access, exception handling, evidence quality, record retention, and escalation practices.
• Familiarity with foundational audit and compliance concepts, including source evidence, review criteria, populations, findings, management responses, and remediation records.
• Ability to review structured records, reconcile data across systems, identify discrepancies, maintain evidence, and follow defined procedures.
• Proficiency with spreadsheet analysis and reporting, including filtering, lookups, reconciliation, and pivot tables.
• Experience with workflow systems, email-based reports, and document repositories.
• Ability to manage recurring and request-driven work, meet deadlines, maintain accurate trackers, and escalate exceptions promptly.
• Ability to handle confidential and security-sensitive information with discretion and comply with applicable access, privacy, and data-handling requirements.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and document work so that it is reviewable and auditable.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information systems, risk management, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, certifications, military service, and relevant practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with access reporting, elevated-access reviews, inactive-account reconciliation, review trackers, evidence repositories, and exception records.
• Experience preparing audit evidence, compliance reports, or regulatory support materials under established review criteria.
• Experience supporting GRC or third-party risk workflows in a managed-services environment.
• Experience with spreadsheet, workflow, document-repository, GRC, or identity-governance platforms.
• Familiarity with recognized frameworks or assurance models such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, or applicable regulatory requirements.
• Relevant training or certification such as Security+, CISA, CRISC, CGRC, or comparable coursework.

Responsibilities

• Generate user access and permissions reports using approved systems, report parameters, and procedures.
• Reconcile non-user and inactive accounts across in-scope systems, document discrepancies, and route exceptions for review and resolution.
• Maintain records related to staffing, assigned duties, access, and changes that affect required access or control reviews.
• Support elevated-access reviews and exception handling by collecting records, maintaining status, updating approved risk register or exception records, and escalating unresolved items.
• Review system activity logs and audit trails according to defined criteria and schedules, document the reviews, and route identified exceptions.
• Archive, organize, and review security- and audit-related email reports and associated records in approved repositories.
• Check assigned evidence for completeness, accuracy, applicable period, source, and retrievability before routing it for review.
• Maintain traceable records of source, review status, disposition, owner, exception, escalation, and completion date.
• Complete compliance forms, review trackers, attestations, and supporting records using approved source information.
• Assist in preparing audit reports and supporting evidence for regulatory and other assigned reviews.
• Check deliverables for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and traceability before routing them for review or submission.
• Respond to assigned evidence or information requests within established priorities and document completion, dependencies, and exceptions.
• Manage report queues and request tracking for GRC and third-party risk workflows using approved systems and procedures.
• Record request scope, ownership, status, due dates, dependencies, disposition, and supporting documentation accurately and consistently.
• Monitor aging items, follow up for missing information, and escalate blockers, overdue requests, or matters outside assigned authority.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to clarify requests and support timely completion without independently conducting third-party risk assessments, approving third parties, or accepting risk unless specifically delegated.
• Perform assigned work in client-owned or client-approved systems and platforms during applicable client-aligned service windows.
• Follow approved procedures, access restrictions, data-handling requirements, naming conventions, and evidence-retention practices.
• Protect confidential, security-sensitive, employee, and access-related information and immediately escalate suspected handling or access issues.
• Prepare status and operational metrics for assigned work, including timeliness, aging, completion, exceptions, and quality.
• Identify recurring process or data-quality issues and recommend procedure clarifications without changing approved controls or processes without authorization.
• Escalate suspected control failures, anomalous activity, unresolved reconciliation issues, missing audit evidence, access concerns, overdue work, and decisions outside assigned authority.

Benefits

• Employee Resource Groups
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer opportunities through “Optiv Chips In”
• Ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home, where applicable

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level