USAble Life

This position can be located in Jacksonville, FL or Little Rock, AR.

The IT Governance Analyst will be involved in planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring and controls associated with IT risk and compliance.  The individual will focus on business continuity, disaster recovery, risk management, and ensuring internal controls and compliance activities follows a risk-based approach that balances efforts with risks.  Coordination with the IT Security Architect on security-related compliance activities will be required.

• Develops and maintains master business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan and provides guidance for business unity BC/DR planning.
• Identifies, evaluates, and documents risks, mitigation strategies, and controls.
• Serve in a consulting capacity and providing expertise and oversight in developing internal controls best practice initiatives based on industry standard frameworks.
• Coordinates internal assessments and external audits and lead in implementing control gap remediation plans with IT personnel.
• Ensure that all compliance and process improvement initiative follow the appropriate change management and IT governance documentation requirements.

• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in the field of information technology.
• Ability to utilize security risk analysis to enable the success of enterprise business initiatives.
• Broad understanding of all IT areas including infrastructure, development, auditing, and internal controls.
• Ability to produce quality work under pressure to meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to lead cross functional groups.
• Advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, including the ability to address a wide range of audiences both internally and externally.

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Business Management, and/or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years experience in IT Audit, Compliance, Risk Management or Security.
• Project Management experience.
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery planning experience.

Preferred:

• IS Auditor, Security or Governance certification.
• Prior experience with IT Governance frameworks (i.e. CoBiT, ITIL, CMMI, etc.).
• Insurance industry experience.