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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Hybrid
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GreatAmerica Financial Services is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, our principle-centered business philosophy and our team-based operating approach are key to our success and growth.
We are looking to add a Key Member to our Enterprise Security Team!
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.
GreatAmerica welcomes applications from candidates residing the following states, where we currently support employment and payroll operations: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
As a Senior Security Analyst, GRC, you will:
Security Governance & Policy
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.
Risk & Compliance Oversight (Second Line)
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.
Regulatory & Audit Management
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.
Security Metrics & Reporting
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.
Framework Alignment & Continuous Improvement
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
To be successful in the role, you will need:
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
Skills and Abilities
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.
Preferred Certifications
ISACA CISA
ISACA CRISC
ISC2 CGRC
ISC2 CISSPISACA CISM
Other Requirements
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.
Sharing rewards is an integral part of our culture. We believe in the value of hard work and reward our employees beyond the paycheck. Our total rewards package is based on eligibility and includes:
Financial Benefits
Health, Wellbeing, and Family Planning Benefits
Education and Career Planning Benefits
Perks
If your experience aligns closely, please apply. We value diverse backgrounds and adding new perspectives. We encourage you to apply if you can make a strong impact in this role at www.greatamerica.com/careers.
Please note, 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.