Information Security Policy & Governance Analyst

Are you someone who relentlessly seeks solutions and ensures timely delivery to commitments? Someone with a detective mind that proactively finds solutions and considers various scenarios? If the answer to this and other questions is yes, then you are a great fit for an open Technology Analyst role.  We are currently looking for an IS Policy & Governance Analyst to join our Cyber Compliance team as part of the ISRM function in Richmond, Toronto, or Dallas. 

You will be a key member of the Cyber Compliance team who will ensure Information Security (IS) and Information Technology (IT) policies, standards, and guidelines are up to date and in line with enterprise guidance.  Additionally, you will work closely with teams responsible for testing controls, reporting, and tracking which tie directly to internal compliance with relevant policies/standards and external compliance with frameworks/regulations that ultimately sustains customer confidence in Thomson Reuters (TR). 

About the Role  

In this opportunity as IS Policy & Governance Analyst, you will be responsible for: 

Policy Development & Management: 

• With the support of domain experts, develop, update, and maintain IT policies, standards, and procedures. 

• Ensure policies are in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. 

• Monitor changes in laws, regulations, and industry standards and make recommendations to update policies accordingly. 

• Collaborate with compliance & attestation program leads to ensure IT policies, standards, and procedures reflect applicable updates and meet required language requirements. 

Compliance and Risk Management: 

• Monitor compliance with IT policies & procedures via data analysis of continuous compliance reporting, audit results, etc. 

• Compile reporting on policy compliance at a regular cadence and present to senior management. 

• Identify and facilitate risk mitigation with IT operations including facilitating impact analysis of policy updates and changes. 

Training and Awareness: 

• Design and deliver training programs to educate employees about IT policies and procedures. 

• Promote awareness of IT security and best practices across the organization. 

Collaboration, Communication & Cross-Functional Support: 

• Work closely with IT teams, legal, HR, Risk & Compliance and ISRM leadership to ensure cohesive policy implementation. 

• Serve as a point of contact for inquiries related to IT policies, standards, and procedures. 

• Provide support to the Customer Attestation and Cyber Compliance Testing Team to facilitate the development of continuous compliance and supporting evidence. 
   

About You 

You are fit for the role of IS Policy & Governance Analyst, if your skills and background include: 

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Accounting, Finance or equivalent education and experience. 

• Proven experience in data analysis including writing SQL queries. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Strong ethical principles and understanding of business and IS ethics. 

• Knowledge of IT compliance standards and regulations. 

• Certification such as CISA, CISSP, CCAK, CISM, or CRISC or the ability to obtain the certification within the first 6 months of employment. 

• Excellent English oral and written communication skills. Additional expertise in French, Spanish or another language will be an asset. 

• Ability to adjust communication style to audience. 

• Experience with Snowflake and other like platforms. 

• Experience explaining difficult concepts and driving influence to achieve desired outcomes. 

• Knowledge about GRC platforms like ServiceNow, ProcessUnity, RSA Archer, MetricStream and like. 

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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