Cyber Audit Compliance Analyst

Cyber Audit Compliance Analyst

Location: Hybrid - Northbrook headquarters or downtown Chicago

Top Must Have Skills:
1) Audit background (Global) Wale said this would help a lot for them to be successful. Reason is because a lot of time the compliance analyst will be responding to customer questionaries and participating in audits globally. Sometimes customers want to audit , this position will be interfacing with this.
2) Be Intune with industry standards ISO 27000 and 27001, NIST requirements.
3) Risk Assessment skills
4) MSA/Contract reviews would expect candidate to have these skills. Component of the MSA that goes to legal department and the cybersecurity portion comes to Wale. Needs someone who has technical background. This person will be able to look at what UL currently has and have a good understanding of how UL operates internally (policies, standards, procedures). There will be a lot of requirements from customers, need to be able to think quickly on your feet and respond.

Job Description:

The Global Cybersecurity Compliance Analyst candidates will be evaluated based on their ability to perform the duties listed above while demonstrating the skills and competencies necessary to be highly effective in the role. These skills and competencies include:

• Identify, document, and conduct compliance assessments and validate the effectiveness of cybersecurity controls across the organization

• Communicates assessment issues to team owners and custodians of information risk business partners, or information governance teams and information security teams.
• Proactively manage and maintain customers requests (questionnaire) process by collaborating with relevant key stakeholders across the organization to complete/respond to cybersecurity related questions
• Partner with IT teams and other key stakeholders (e.g., Legal), advising both on applicable control requirements and potential solutions to address compliance issues
• Identify control deficiencies and maintain records of deficiency details including management response documentation and exposure check evidence
• Stay abreast of and proactively informed on developing relevant legislative, statutory, contractual, regulatory concerns and evolving compliance control solutions
• Assists with the evaluation of the effectiveness of the information security program by developing, monitoring, gathering, and analyzing information security and compliance metrics for management.
• Assist with developing and maintain compliance and risk monitoring mechanisms such as Key Risk Indicators (KRI), reports on status of risk assessment, control effectiveness issues remediation and internal audit findings

• Understands and applies relevant regulatory and legal compliance requirements

• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements
A successful Global Cybersecurity Compliance Analyst candidate will have the expertise and skills described below.
Education, Training and Previous Experience
Candidates will be evaluated primarily on their ability to demonstrate the competencies required to be successful in the role, as described above. For reference, the typical work experience and educational background of candidates in this role are as follows:

• BS or MA in Business, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• [2 ] years of work experience in information security, especially in an information cybersecurity risk role
• [2 ] years of experience in managing risk and compliance issues, or similar experience managing applications, projects or systems that require identification, evaluation, and remediation if risk
• Technical background or demonstrable understanding of a range of operational and IT risks and operations
• Strong business background; experience gathering and interpreting risks and associated impacts in the context of financial and operational concerns
• Strong understanding of compliance and risk-related issues through demonstrated experience managing, information security or regulatory compliance programs, and audits
• [4 ] years of experience with regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g., International Organization for Standardization [IS0] 27000, COBIT, National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] 800)

Desired, but not required:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and/or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Knowledge and Skills

• Detailed understanding of cybersecurity controls and the ability to characterize the spirit of the control to our business partners/control owners.
• An ability to apply original and innovative thinking to produce new ideas. Sound understanding of different factors that make up risk (e.g., assets, vulnerabilities, controls, threats, etc.) and their relationships to one another to inform risk decisions
• Communicate control deficiencies outside the cybersecurity program in a way that consistently drives understanding, objectives, fact-based decisions that optimize the trade-off between risk mitigation and business performance.

• An understanding of organizational mission, values, goals, and consistent application of this knowledge.
• An ability to work on several tasks simultaneously and pay attention to sources of information from inside and outside one s network within an organization.
• An ability to apply original and innovative thinking to produce new ideas. Sound understanding of different factors that make up risk and their relationships to one another to inform risk decisions
• An understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business.
• An ability to effectively influence others to modify their opinions, plans or behaviors.

• Excellent prioritization capabilities, with an aptitude for breaking down work into manageable parts, effectively assessing the priority and time required to complete each part.
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.