Information Security Analyst

About Betterment

Betterment 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. Were 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 weve 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 Betterments total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $115000-$125000
  
  

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

A Day in the Life:

• Operates assigned risk management processes such as vulnerability monitoring due diligence questionnaire completion audit or examination evidence gathering. A number of AI and automation tools will be available to facilitate increasing efficiency and scale in this work over time. The role will have some flexibility for specialization among the team.
• Perform application-level risk assessments by interviewing and documenting the key business processes and risks related to an application and providing guidance regarding strong logical access controls to reduce risk. When appropriate document issues and foster management attention related to remediation for control deficiencies.
• Perform due diligence or ongoing monitoring activities to evaluate security risks introduced through third-party relationships or applications or tools used by employees.
• Contribute to security awareness training or phishing simulation activities for training of employees and contractors.
• Gather data and ensure management attention towards key risk indicator (KRI) metrics for security.
• Monitor assigned issues through regular follow-up and reporting to ensure management attention and timely remediation.
  
  

What Were Looking For:

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:

• Youve operated security controls in an IT operations role or served as a Staff or Senior-level auditor (in public accounting or internal audit) or previously worked in a security role successfully.
• You have knowledge and familiarity with the principles of security risk management including the CIA triad design and operation of controls and one or more control governance frameworks.
• You have a familiarity with security controls applicable to cloud computing and third-party SaaS applications including logical access management processes third-party due diligence and monitoring and more
• You have experience learning new skills including through research and the use of AI and automation.

What being at Betterment means for you

We change lives

Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission: making peoples lives better.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company our customers and ourselvesand we wont stop until we reach them. We dont just show up; we give our all then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate were at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.

We invest in you with:

• A competitive suite of benefits including: medical dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
• Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
• Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
• Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
• Dedicated professional development opportunities
• Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters

What happens next

Well take a few weeks to review all applications. If wed like to spend more time with you well reach out to arrange next steps which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.

In the interview process well 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 were unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.

We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!

Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process please reach out to your recruiter.

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Come join us!

Were an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color religion creed national origin or ancestry ethnicity sex gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual) sexual orientation marital status age physical or mental disability citizenship past current or prospective service in the uniformed services predisposing genetic characteristic domestic violence victim status arrest records or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.

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