Cybersecurity GRC Analyst

Semperis

Hoboken, NJ0–3 yrs58m agovia LinkedIn

About The Role

  • This is a hands-on, learning-focused role supporting the GRC team across governance, risk, compliance, and customer trust.

Key Responsibilities

Security Awareness Training

  • Follow up on overdue security training.
  • Lead the annual Security and Compliance Training campaign: work with People Operations and Legal on the curriculum, set up enrollments in the training platform, track completion weekly, and escalate overdue training.
  • Handle training exceptions.
  • Keep training records ready as audit evidence.
  • Gather feedback to improve next year's campaign.

Customer Trust

  • Answer customer security questionnaires, starting with simpler requests.
  • Escalate complex requests to senior teammates.
  • Check answers for accuracy.
  • Confirm requestors are under NDA before sharing information.
  • Help maintain our answer library and Trust Center content.

Audit and Compliance Support

  • Learn our FedRAMP program and support the FedRAMP ISSO as needed.
  • Gather and organize evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits.
  • Confirm evidence meets each request and prepare it for review before it goes to auditors.

Governance and Risk Support

  • Coordinate security policy updates: route policies for review and approval, publish approved versions, and keep version history and change records.
  • Recommend improvements to team processes, status reporting, and work priorities.
  • Support vendor risk work by tracking annual recertification of critical vendors and sending information requests to vendors.
  • Provide administrative support for the cyber risk register, including intake of new risk information.
  • Use our GRC platform (Vanta) and help find ways to automate manual tasks and evidence collection.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Required

  • One of the following: a CISA, CRISC, or CISSP certification, or a degree in Cybersecurity.
  • At least 6 months of experience in a GRC role.
  • Strong organization, attention to detail, and follow-through on deadlines.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Excel.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted tools.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2 to 3 years of work experience in IT, cybersecurity, or GRC.
  • Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP audits, in a supporting role or as an auditee.
  • Experience with a modern GRC platform such as Vanta.
  • Experience answering customer security questionnaires.
  • Experience at a SaaS, cloud, or cybersecurity company.

Success Measures (First Year)

  • Assignments are completed correctly and on time, with good judgment about when to ask for help.
  • Overdue training is followed up and the annual training campaign is delivered on schedule.
  • Ownership of customer security questionnaires is shared within the first few months.
  • Audit evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 is complete and on time.

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