Senior Cyber Governance, Risk, Compliance Analyst

The Senior Security Analyst is responsible for supporting functions spanning IT Risk Management and Governance & Compliance operations. This role will work across enterprise-wide cybersecurity initiatives, balancing strategic risk with tactical compliance execution.

Essential Job Functions:

Cybersecurity Governance and Documentation

• Create and maintain cybersecurity policies, procedures, and standards documentation including system hardening guidelines and security baselines.
• Create and maintain cybersecurity policies, procedures, and standards documentation.

Risk Management

• Maintain enterprise risk registers within Governance, Risk, and Compliance tools and provide regular risk reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Maintain risk registers and provide regular risk reporting to stakeholders.
• Develop risk treatment strategies and recommendations to technical teams including control implementation roadmaps, risk acceptance justifications, and prioritized remediation plans.
• Conduct IT and cybersecurity risk assessments across the enterprise environment, including threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, likelihood and impact evaluation, and the application of established risk assessment methodologies (NIST) to identify and quantify risks to information systems.

System Security Planning, Assurance, and Compliance

• Develop, update, and maintain System Security Plans (SSPs) for organizational systems.
• Coordinate and support internal and external audits, assessments, and regulatory examinations by proactively collecting artifacts from cross-functional teams while independently gathering as much documentation as possible directly from source systems to streamline the audit process and reduce operational impact on other departments.

Vulnerability and Remediation Management

• Manage end-to-end vulnerability management processes, including coordinating vulnerability scanning activities, triaging and prioritizing identified vulnerabilities based on severity, tracking remediation efforts through completion, validating successful mitigation, maintaining metrics and reporting dashboards, and ensuring timely closure of security weaknesses in alignment with organizational policies and risk tolerance.
• Maintain and update Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&M) documentation to include tracking remediation activities to closure.
• Ensure compliance with applicable security frameworks (NIST, SOC, PCI).
• Provide authorization and continuous monitoring activities for information systems by participating in security control assessments, preparing authorization packages and supporting documentation, facilitating Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, implementing continuous monitoring strategies, tracking and reporting on security control effectiveness, identifying control deficiencies, and coordinating ongoing assessments to maintain authorization status throughout the system lifecycle.

• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

 Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent training and / or work experience preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of professional experience in the design, operation, and monitoring of IT systems, with substantial emphasis on cybersecurity.
• Minimum three (3) years designing, operating, monitoring, and assessing security controls for AWS-based systems.
• Hands-on experience applying the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF, per NIST SP 800-37) across the full system lifecycle, including the Prepare, Categorize, Select, Implement, Assess, Authorize, and Monitor steps
• Proven experience building, operating, and maintaining an enterprise cyber risk register within a GRC platform from risk identification through closure.

 

Work Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.

For work that is performed in CO, CT, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, WA, DC, NY, NJ, WA please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations. 

Boston, MA: $112,300 - $202,500

Chicago, IL: $107,500 - $194,100

Denver, CO: $97,700 - $176,100

Jericho, NY: $112,300 - $202,500

Jersey City, NJ: $117,200 - $211,400

Philadelphia, PA: $107,500 - $194,100

New York, NY: $117,200 - $211,400

Rockville, MD: $112,300 - $202,500

Tysons, VA: $112,300 - $202,500

Washington, DC: $112,300 - $202,500

Woodbridge, NJ: $112,300 - $202,500

Connecticut State: $97,700- $211,400

Washington State: $97,700- $211,400

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Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program starting at 15 days of paid time off (increasing with years of service, up to 25 days), 5 personal days, and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

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