Security Assurance Specialist - Associate
Summary
Assesses client security questionnaires by researching answers, gathering evidence, and ensuring consistency across 30,000+ questions while collaborating with business and tech teams.
The Governance and Risk Specialist at iCapital works on a small team that receives due diligence questionnaires (DDQ) from clients on information security and other topics. The team provides answers and artifacts to support the answers for those DDQs. Throughout the year 30,000+ questions are answered with many similar, but asked slightly differently. Attention to detail is needed so that answers in the same DDQ are not contradictory. Many answers will require obtaining a deep knowledge of iCapital business units and the technologies that they use.
Responsibilities
- Work with clients, client-facing teams, and DDQ portals to receive DDQs
- Find the answers that best match DDQ questions
- Work with business units and technology teams to find artifact evidence that support the answers
- Escalate outstanding issues to management
- From time to time assist the third party risk team with their vendor DDQ evaluations as client assurance and vendor risk are related programs
Qualifications
- Five-years experience in a technology role, preferably information security
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or technology/information security-related field
- Experience using GRC tools is plus
- Excellent knowledge of security risks pertaining to cloud and controls that match those risks
- A quick learner with desire to continually learn
- Excellent communication skills including strong English writing skills
- The successful candidate will be detail oriented to ensure that all answers are correct and nuanced to the client question
We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office four days, with the flexibility to work remotely one day (Friday).
Benefits
iCapital offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes a total compensation program consisting of competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and equity for all full-time employees; healthcare with 100% employer-paid health and dental insurance; and generous paid time off (PTO).
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