This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.
The GRC Analyst delivers recurring governance, risk, and compliance operational support within a managed-services environment. The role performs access reporting, account reconciliation, activity and audit-trail review, evidence handling, compliance tracking, audit support, and GRC and third-party risk workflow administration using approved systems, procedures, and review criteria.
This is a client-dedicated role assigned to support designated managed-services clients and their defined GRC service requirements. The role works in client-owned or client-approved systems during applicable client-aligned service windows established for assigned engagements.
This is an operational GRC delivery role accountable for accurate, timely, and traceable execution of assigned activities. The analyst supports control owners, risk owners, auditors, and service leadership while escalating exceptions and decisions outside assigned authority.
How you’ll make an impact
Access, Account & Permissions Governance
- Generate user access and permissions reports using approved systems, report parameters, and procedures.
- Reconcile non-user and inactive accounts across in-scope systems; document discrepancies and route exceptions for review and resolution.
- Maintain records related to staffing, assigned duties, access, and changes that affect required access or control reviews.
- Support elevated-access reviews and exception handling by collecting records, maintaining status, updating approved risk register or exception records, and escalating unresolved items.
System Activity, Audit Trail & Evidence Review
- Review system activity logs and audit trails according to defined review criteria and schedules; document the review performed and route identified exceptions.
- Archive, organize, and review security- and audit-related email reports and associated records in approved repositories.
- Check assigned evidence for completeness, accuracy, applicable period, source, and retrievability before routing it for review.
- Maintain traceable records of source, review status, disposition, owner, exception, escalation, and completion date.
Compliance & Audit Support
- Complete compliance forms, review trackers, attestations, and supporting records using approved source information.
- Assist in preparing audit reports and supporting evidence needed for regulatory and other assigned reviews.
- Perform accuracy, completeness, consistency, and traceability checks before routing deliverables for review or submission.
- Respond to assigned evidence or information requests within established priorities; document completion, dependencies, and exceptions.
GRC & Third-Party Risk Workflow Support
- Manage report queues and request tracking for GRC and third-party risk workflows using approved systems and procedures.
- Record request scope, ownership, status, due dates, dependencies, disposition, and supporting documentation accurately and consistently.
- Monitor aging items, follow up for missing information, and escalate blockers, overdue requests, or matters outside assigned authority.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to clarify requests and support timely completion without independently performing a third-party risk assessment, approving a third party, or accepting risk unless specifically delegated.
Service Delivery, Quality & Information Handling
- Perform assigned work using client-owned or client-approved systems and platforms during applicable client-aligned service windows.
- Follow approved procedures, access restrictions, data-handling requirements, naming conventions, and evidence-retention practices.
- Protect confidential, security-sensitive, employee, and access-related information and immediately escalate suspected handling or access issues.
- Prepare status and operational metrics for assigned work, including timeliness, aging, completion, exceptions, and quality.
- Identify recurring process or data-quality issues and recommend procedure clarifications without changing approved controls or processes without authorization.
Decision Authority & Accountability
- Execute assigned GRC activities within documented procedures, approved access, defined review criteria, and established service priorities.
- Make routine record-maintenance, queue-management, and evidence-organization decisions that comply with approved standards.
- Do not independently approve access or third parties, accept risk, interpret legal or regulatory requirements, design controls, determine control effectiveness, approve control exceptions, or make material process changes unless specifically delegated.
- Escalate suspected control failures, anomalous activity, unresolved reconciliation issues, missing audit evidence, access concerns, overdue work, and decisions outside assigned authority.
Core Competencies
- Access reporting, account reconciliation, elevated-access review support, and exception tracking
- System activity, audit-trail, and security-report review using defined criteria
- Evidence quality, organization, retention, and traceability
- Compliance-form, review-tracker, audit-report, and request-queue administration
- Data reconciliation, aging analysis, discrepancy identification, and operational reporting
- Confidential information handling, escalation, and professional judgment
- Clear written communication, follow-through, and stakeholder coordination
What we’re looking for
- At least 2 years of relevant experience in GRC, audit support, access governance, compliance operations, cybersecurity, risk management, third-party risk operations, or a related control function.
- Working knowledge of access governance, account status and ownership, elevated access, exception handling, evidence quality, record retention, and escalation practices.
- Familiarity with foundational audit and compliance concepts, including source evidence, review criteria, populations, findings, management responses, and remediation records.
- Demonstrated ability to review structured records, reconcile data across systems, identify discrepancies, maintain evidence, and follow defined procedures.
- Proficiency with spreadsheet analysis and reporting, including filtering, lookups, reconciliation, and pivot tables, plus experience with workflow systems, email-based reports, and document repositories.
- Ability to manage recurring and request-driven work, meet deadlines, maintain accurate trackers, and escalate exceptions promptly.
- Ability to handle confidential and security-sensitive information with discretion and comply with applicable access, privacy, and data-handling requirements.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and document work so that it is reviewable and auditable.
- Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information systems, risk management, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, certifications, military service, and relevant practical experience.
- Experience with access reporting, elevated-access reviews, inactive-account reconciliation, review trackers, evidence repositories, and exception records.
- Experience preparing audit evidence, compliance reports, or regulatory support materials under established review criteria.
- Experience supporting GRC or third-party risk workflows in a managed-services environment.
- Experience with spreadsheet, workflow, document-repository, GRC, or identity-governance platforms.
- Familiarity with recognized frameworks or assurance models such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, or applicable regulatory requirements.
- Relevant training or certification such as Security+, CISA, CRISC, CGRC, or comparable coursework (preferred).
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What you can expect from Optiv
- A company committed to our inclusive value through our Employee Resource Groups
- Work/life balance
- Professional training resources
- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
- Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
EEO Statement
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2+ years GRC, audit, or compliance experience; proficiency with spreadsheets, workflow systems, and document repositories; bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information systems, or related field or equivalent experience; ability to handle confidential information.
Key Responsibilities
- generating access reports
- reviewing audit trails
- supporting compliance
Skills & Tools
spreadsheet, workflow systems, document repositories, GRC platforms, identity-governance platforms
Job Details
- Category: Information Technology
- Seniority: Entry Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United States
- Languages: English
About Optiv
A cybersecurity company providing governance, risk, and compliance services. — Industry: Information Technology