GRC Associate Consultant

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CLA is currently seeking a GRC Associate Consultant to join our growing Cybersecurity Team.

As a Cybersecurity GRC Associate, you'll play an essential role in helping clients assess, design, and improve cybersecurity control environments. Your responsibilities will include:

Control Assessment & Design

• Evaluate existing cybersecurity control frameworks and recommend practical enhancements tailored to the client's operating environment.
• Identify control gaps and evaluate associated risks, considering both likelihood and potential impact.
• Support the development of risk treatment plans and risk acceptance rationales.
• Assist with control design across people, process, and technology domains to align with regulatory, framework, and industry standards.
• Collaborate with clients to assess control risk ratings, prioritize remediation efforts, and communicate residual risk.

Report Creation Documentation Support

• Prepare clear, well-structured reports that communicate control deficiencies, risk implications, and prioritized recommendations.
• Document findings and observations in a manner suitable for senior leadership, audit committees, and regulatory audiences.
• Support clients in the development of remediation plans and internal reporting artifacts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology,or a related discipline.
• Relevant certifications (including associate status) such as CISA, CISSP, CRISC, Security+, or similar are desirable, but not required.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, COBIT, or CIS Controls.
• Strong analytical ability and meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with GRC tools, audits, and risk assessments is a bonus.
• Exemplify our CLA values - curious, collaborative, transparent, inclusive, and reliable.
• Passion for doing impactful work, accountability for actions, initiative to make visions a reality, integrity that places honesty and trust above all else, professionalism, and conscientiousness.
  

Our Perks:

• Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!)
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Mental health coverage
• Quarterly Wellness stipend
• Fertility benefits
• Complete list of benefits here

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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