IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist

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The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist is responsible for oversees the implementation of security controls and technologies to protect the organization's information assets, including data encryption, access controls, and intrusion detection and prevention systems.

The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist supports the governance, development, maintenance, validation, and ongoing oversight of the Information Security Services (ISS) control environment. The position partners with Control Owners, Business Process Owners, risk partners, technology and cybersecurity teams, auditors, and other stakeholders to help ensure business processes and controls are appropriately designed, accurately documented, effectively maintained, and supported by sufficient evidence.

The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist serves as a subject-matter resource throughout the control lifecycle, assisting stakeholders with the development of new controls and business processes, modification of existing controls, control ownership changes, control documentation, change-management activities, annual attestations, data-quality reviews, audit and regulatory requests, and control validation activities.

The role is expected to exercise independent judgment when evaluating control documentation, proposed changes, supporting evidence, and alignment between documented control requirements and actual execution. The IS Governance Risk & Compliance Specialist also works directly with Control Owners and Process Owners to identify documentation and/or control-environment gaps and facilitate appropriate corrective action.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Good understanding of Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience within Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), cybersecurity controls, technology risk, internal controls, or related discipline.
• Experience developing, reviewing, maintaining, and validating controls and supporting control documentation.
• Experience evaluating control design, execution, evidence, and alignment between documented requirements and operational practices.
• Experience with business-process governance and analyzing relationships among processes, risks, controls, systems, and accountable owners.
• Experience facilitating control walkthroughs, readiness reviews, quality reviews, or similar control-validation activities.
• Experience supporting internal audit, control testing, quality assurance, regulatory reviews, issue remediation, or corrective-action activities.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with demonstrated ability to identify documentation, execution, ownership, data-quality, or control-environment gaps.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Ability to be flexible and adapt to change
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal

Location expectations: 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

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U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.