You are a GRC or IT audit professional with at least two years of experience in security operations. This role is ideal if you have a background in public accou
Work type: onsite
Location: Betterment HQ - New York City
Salary: $115,000 – $125,000/yr
Type: Full-time
You are a GRC or IT audit professional with at least two years of experience in security operations. This role is ideal if you have a background in public accounting or internal audit and are comfortable navigating control governance frameworks. **What makes it worth a look...** Betterment pays $115,000 to $125,000 annually for this position based at their New York City headquarters. You will work on-site four days per week, though the company waives office requirements during summer and winter holidays. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Understand security risk management principles like the CIA triad. * Have direct experience managing security controls for cloud and SaaS applications. * Know how to perform risk assessments and document logical access controls. * Can monitor vulnerability remediation and gather evidence for compliance audits.
## About Betterment
[Betterment](http://www.betterment.com/) is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing, savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission, to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office, with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).
About the Role:
We are looking for an information security professional with 2+ years experience in technology operations, technology audit, or GRC. The successful candidate in this role will perform a variety of governance, risk, and compliance activities related to security. Examples of assigned activities will include perform risk assessments for SaaS applications, consulting with application owners to apply strong logical access controls, monitoring and reporting on the timely remediation of vulnerabilities, or gathering evidence to support audits or examinations.
As a technology-driven financial services company, managing information security risk is critical to the trust that we foster with our clients, investors, and regulators. This role will operate within our Govern & Control team, which is a small independent (second line-of-defense) team which is integrated with the broader security program. The role reports to the Director of Information Security, and works closely with the security teams within engineering, lines of business throughout the company, and other risk management teams including Compliance and Legal.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.
A Day in the Life:
We are seeking a team member with 2+ years experience in technology operations, technology audit, or GRC. They will be a significant contributor to the security program.
The following skills/competencies are required:
We change lives
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We invest in you with:
We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
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