Senior Compliance Assessor

The Role:

The Senior Compliance Assessor (Security Specialist) overall responsible for ensuring that the company complies with industry laws and regulations in support of the mission and strategic goals of CLIENT. The Compliance Analyst is responsible for compliance assessments as part of a larger team.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Compliance Assessor will be responsible for, but not limited to:

- Responsible for conducting independent comprehensive assessments of management, operational, and technical security controls and control enhancements employed within or inherited by a system to determine its overall effectiveness.

- Evaluates the effectiveness of control design and operation to meet compliance requirements.

- Performs or facilitates various assessments based on banking requirements and security controls (NIST CSF, FFIEC, OCC, EUBA, OSFI, and NIST-CRI).

- Communicates assessment observations with stakeholders to confirm understanding.

- Prepares draft reporting inclusive of assessments, summaries, findings, and recommendations for management review.

- Performs compliance reviews at the request of management for updates to business processes or new initiatives.

Skills and Experience

- Demonstrate comprehensive familiarity with security controls, control implementation, assessment process and control maturity.

- Proven track record of successfully leading security and compliance initiatives at a project level.

- Strong analytical skills and ability to assess complex problems and translate them into actionable strategies.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate at all organizational levels.

- Two to Three years' experience in a lead assessor role using NIST Cyber Security Control Framework.

- Deep understanding of evaluation and validation principles and practices

Additional Details/ Ideal Skills

- Position open to remote individuals willing to travel to client and other locations as needed.