Senior GRC Analyst

About Juniper Square

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of private markets. Privately owned assets like commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital make up half of our financial ecosystem yet remain inaccessible to most people. We are digitizing these markets, and as a result, bringing efficiency, transparency, and access to one of the most productive corners of our financial ecosystem. If you care about making the world a better place by making markets work better through technology – all while contributing as a member of a values-driven organization – we want to hear from you. 

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have a physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.

About your role

The GRC Analyst is responsible for supporting the organization's governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) program. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding and experience building scalable, right-sized risk management and compliance processes for a high-growth company. The successful candidate will also possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills. This role will work closely with a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders within the company and should be able to build a rapport and influence towards appropriate risk management outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Governance (20%)

  1. Policy Management

     1. Develop a comprehensive set of security and privacy policies and procedures working with Legal, HR, IT, Engineering.

     2. Update policies and procedures annually while incorporating stakeholder feedback and obtain approval

     3. Define and manage incoming policy exceptions on an ongoing basis to manage associated risk

  2. Security and Privacy Training and Awareness

     1. Develop and implement role and team specific security and privacy training working closely with key business partners.

     2. Manage the roll-out, escalation and completion of all security and privacy training modules.

  3. Phishing Management

     1. Manage phishing campaigns on an ongoing basis with appropriate re-training processes baked into the process

     2. Refine existing phishing reporting processes and integrate this better with our incident management processes

  4. GRC Metrics and Reporting

     1. Ensure the GRC function meets key performance metrics

• Risk (40%)

  1. Risk Management

     1. Maintain business unit risk registers with existing teams on a monthly basis to appropriately address key risks areas

     2. Co-develop and coach business units on right-sized and right-scoped risk remediation plans

     3. Work with cross-functional teams to onboard new business units onto the risk management process

  2. Third-Party Risk Management

     1. Continuously improve vendor and contractor risk assessments during vendor onboarding with a defined SLA.

     2. Conduct annual vendor monitoring and re-assessment processes for existing vendors

     3. Maintain the vendor risk register and work with vendors to reduce risk on an ongoing basis

• Compliance (40%)

  1. Compliance

     1. Maintain and onboard existing/new security compliance certifications and frameworks (e.g. SOC2, ISO and others)

        1. Work with cross-functional teams to procure controls evidence to provide to external auditors timely and issue reports timely.

        2. Work cross functionally between teams and auditors to ensure a smooth and efficient audit process

        3. Improve the audit process through automation and controls rationalization year over year

        4. Monitor and test effectiveness of compliance control health throughout the year; not just during audits

        5. Serve as a subject matter expert for all things compliance;

           1. Identify and assess business changes for relevant impacts on compliance posture (e.g. geographical expansion, internal tool replacement, new products)

  2. Customer Trust

     1. Maintain our trust