Senior Security Analyst, GRC

GreatAmerica Financial Services•Cedar Rapids, IA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Security Analyst, GRC supports the bank’s enterprise security governance program, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations, enterprise risk management, and industry frameworks. This role oversees security policies, standards, risk governance, partners with third-party security oversight, and provides support for regulatory engagement. The Senior Analyst partners with technology, risk, compliance, and audit teams to strengthen the bank’s Enterprise Security Governance framework and ensures effective operation of the three lines of defense by independently reviewing control effectiveness designed by first-line security engineering and IT operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred.
Minimum of 5 years of work experience in information security, risk, security governance or audit
Strong knowledge of information security governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and control frameworks, preferably within banking or regulated financial services.
Working knowledge of banking regulatory expectations, FFIEC guidance, and recognized security frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST RMF, CIS, and ITGC.
Experience supporting regulatory exams, audit reviews, external customer requests, findings, issue management, and remediation tracking
Ability to maintain security policies, standards, governance artifacts, risk registers, control documentation, and policy exception processes.
Ability to independently assess control design, ownership, evidence sufficiency, remediation status, and operating effectiveness within a second-line risk oversight model.
Strong analytical and reporting skills, including the ability to develop dashboards and communicate risk posture, policy compliance, control effectiveness, and incident trends.
Ability to partner effectively across security, technology, risk, compliance, audit, legal, and business teams while maintaining appropriate independence and challenge.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document complex topics clearly and support updates to senior leaders, risk committees, auditors, and regulators.
Strong organizational, project coordination, follow-through, and judgment skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and respond effectively to time-sensitive work.
Exceptional organizational, analytical, and follow-through skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Role will likely include periodic large project-oriented demands with tight deadlines requiring more than standard work hours and the need to respond quickly.
Must demonstrate sound business judgment.
applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

Nice To Haves

ISACA CISA
ISACA CRISC
ISC2 CGRC
ISC2 CISSP
ISACA CISM

Responsibilities

Support the development and maintenance of the bank’s information security governance framework.
Track the lifecycle of security policies and standards, reporting non-compliance to the policy owners.
Ensure alignment with regulatory guidance from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and banking regulators.
Maintain governance artifacts including policy exception processes and control documentation.
Independently review first-line procedures for alignment with approved policies and standards.
Support enterprise risk management by coordinating information security risk assessments.
Track and manage the security risk register.
Monitor and independently validate remediation of identified risks and control gaps.
Independently assess controls built and operated by first-line security engineering and IT operations teams and formally challenge control design, ownership, and evidence sufficiency through the second-line issue and escalation process.
Act as the primary security governance liaison for regulators and auditors.
Support exams and reviews conducted by applicable agencies.
Coordinate and support responses to regulatory findings, internal audit issues, and external requests from customers.
Develop and maintain security governance reporting for executive leadership.
Produce dashboards for: Risk posture, Policy compliance, Control effectiveness, Incident trends
Support the presentation of quarterly updates to risk committees and senior management.
Maintain governance alignment with industry frameworks – NIST CSF, NIST RMF, CIS, ITGC
Recommend and support improvements to governance processes and tooling (Optro/Auditboard)
Collaborate across legal, compliance, risk, and technology functions

Benefits

Competitive Compensation
Monthly Bonuses for Eligible Employees
401(k) and Company Match
Annual Profit Sharing
Paid Vacation - starting at 80 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
Paid Sick Days - Ten (10) per year with a conversion option for unused time.
Ten (10) Paid Holidays per year
Gym Reimbursement
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Short-Term and Long Term Disability
Company Paid Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
Employee Assistance Program
Parental Leave
Tuition Assistance
Networking Opportunities
Leadership Development Opportunities
Paid Parking
Service Awards
Hybrid work arrangements
Business casual environment