Lead GRC Analyst

Posted 6 Days Ago
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Dallas, TX
Hybrid
Senior level
HR Tech
The Role
The Lead GRC Analyst will strengthen Emburse's security and privacy posture, oversee compliance with regulations, and manage GRC frameworks.
Summary Generated by Built In
Who We Are:

At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in travel and expense solutions, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.

The security and privacy-focused Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Lead will lead the efforts for strengthening our security and privacy  posture and ensuring adherence to critical regulatory and industry standards. This role will be responsible for building and managing a comprehensive security GRC framework that protects our organization from cyber risks, ensures compliance with security regulations, and enables business resilience. The ideal candidate has expertise in security governance, risk management, and compliance, with the ability to partner with both technical and business teams.

What will you do

  • Essential Functions
  • Establish and maintain security policies, standards, and controls aligned with industry frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC 2).
  • Develop a metrics and reporting framework to assess the effectiveness of the security and privacy programs.
  • Organize information security risk assessment process, including the reporting and oversight of treatment efforts to address negative findings.
  • Assist with compliance audits and projects (SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, PCI-DSS, Tx-RAMP, and other projects).
  • Manage privacy program to ensure that it is in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (GDPR, PIPEDA, CCPA, CPRA)
  • Execute Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
  • Support in the development and implementation of a continuous controls monitoring program for security compliance and automation of manual processes.
  • Monitor regulatory and industry trends to ensure required changes in compliance policies, procedures, and testing are integrated in a timely manner. 
  • Assist with enterprise-wide targeted training for employee compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Coordinate security incident response and resiliency activities from a compliance and governance perspective, ensuring lessons learned feed back into governance processes.
  • Manage Third Party Risk Management oversight for new and existing vendors
  • Support and help grow the AI Governace initiatives within the organization

What are we looking for

  • Education:
  • Required:  Bachelor’s Degree; Minimum 5+ years of technology project/program management.

  • Experience:   
  • Ability to effectively work as part of a cohesive and agile team. 
  • Ability to manage security audits and frameworks (e.g., PCI, ISO, SOC 1, SOC2, NIST)
  • Ability to manage privacy audits and frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CPRA, CCPA, PIPEDA)
  • Ability to manage AI audits and frameworks (e.g., ISO 42001)
  • Ability to remain organized and to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including team members, other internal departments, and external parties.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and react to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
  • Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion in confidential matters.
  • Demonstrable experience interacting with auditors and strategic partners in cloud-based environments similar to Emburse, relating to assurance frameworks such as SOX, PCI DSS, ISO27001, SOC 2 Trust Principles, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Third-Party Risk Management. 
  • Implemented or maintained Drata (or other GRC tools)

  • Certifications:
  • Preferred:  CISSP, CIPP/EU, CIPM, Security+, CISA, PMP

Required Skills

  • Excellent analytical skills.
  • Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
  • Experience working on large cross-functional teams, representing GRC on initiatives such as change management, identity and access management, policy management, and data retention.
  • Strong writing skills and the ability to communicate information about complex issues to stakeholders in a clear and easy to understand way
  • Ability to develop creative and adaptive solutions to unique and complex inquiries
  • Unwavered by a rapid-paced working environment and meeting deadlines
  • Team-focused, positive attitude, and good sense of humor
  •  

Why Emburse?

Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.
A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize
 their finance operations.
A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-
 world challenges.
A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that
 supports your success.
A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making
 for businesses everywhere. 

Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse. 

Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

Top Skills

Ai Governance
Ccpa
Cpra
Drata
Gdpr
Iso 27001
Nist
Pci
Pipeda
Soc 2
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The Company
HQ: Portland, ME
832 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most.
Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted expense and AP automation solutions, including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie. The company’s innovative offerings, which are uniquely tailored for specific industries, company sizes, and geographies, are trusted by more than 4.5 million users in more than 120 countries. Over 14,000 customers, from start-ups to global enterprises, including Boot Barn, Grant Thornton, Telefónica, Lufthansa Systems, and Toyota rely on Emburse to make faster, smarter decisions, empower business travelers to recapture lost nights and weekends spent doing tedious expense management, and help make users’ lives -- and their businesses -- better.

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