Compliance Analyst
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Job Title: Compliance Analyst
Location: Bangalore, India
Department: Corporate Global Information System
Position Summary:
The Compliance Analyst is a senior individual contributor within the PennEngineering IS Risk & Compliance team who supports the Compliance Program Owner by owning defined compliance sub-components, executing audits and assessments, and driving day-to-day compliance operations.
This role supports the Sr. IT Risk & Security Engineer and Sr. Compliance Analyst to ensure regulatory, audit, and governance requirements are met across the enterprise.
The Compliance Analyst reports to the Senior Manager, IT Risk, Security & Compliance.
Key Responsibility
Compliance Execution
- Support the execution and ongoing monitoring of assigned compliance controls and domains (e.g., access governance, data access reviews, system compliance checks, operational controls).
- Perform assigned reviews to validate that controls are operating as designed and documented.
- Support compliance reporting, tracking, metrics, and remediation status using Jira or other internal governance tools.
- Identify and report control gaps, risks, and systemic issues to the Compliance Program Owner with clear analysis and recommendations.
Varonis Platform
- Serve as the operational owner of the Varonis platform.
- Enhance and validate the use of Varonis to:
- Monitor and review user access rights to sensitive data
- Identify excessive, inappropriate, or anomalous access
- Support periodic access reviews and audit evidence collection
- Apply data classification labeling to relevant data
- Partner with Security Engineering to:
- Improve Varonis alerting, reporting, and coverage to better support compliance objectives
- Identify opportunities to automate or streamline compliance evidence using Varonis data
- Translate Varonis findings into:
- Actionable remediation tasks
- Audit-ready evidence
- Clear risk summaries for the Compliance Program Owner
- Continuously evaluate how Varonis is being used and recommend enhancements to improve compliance visibility, control assurance, and audit readiness.
Audit Support & Sub-Audit Ownership
- Support internal and external audits, including:
- Evidence collection and validation (including Varonis-based evidence)
- Control walkthrough preparation
- Interview preparation. documentation and coordination with system and process owners
- Assist with audit responses and remediation plans for assigned findings.
- Help track remediation progress through closure and report status to the Compliance Program Owner.
- Support the Program Owner during audit planning, auditor interactions, and final reporting.
Policy & Documentation Maintenance
- Assist with maintenance and policy updates under the direction of the Compliance Program Owner.
- Support policy gap assessments related to assigned systems or regulatory areas.
- Support policy revisions and documentation review and approval.
- Manage policy publication, attestation, and training coordination through platforms such as KnowBe4.
Vendor & Third-Party Risk Management
- Support assigned (sub) section of vendor security and compliance assessments.
- Collect vendor documentation (e.g., SOC reports, questionnaires).
- Assist with Vendor outreach and feedback for assigned reviews.
Training, Awareness & Operational Support
- Support security training initiatives by assisting with tracking completion, identifying non-compliance trends, and assisting with reporting and follow up communications.
- Maintain and review KnowBe4 users, groups and assigned training curriculum and campaign roll-outs.
Continuous Improvement & Team Collaboration
- Identify opportunities to improve compliance workflows, tooling usage, documentation quality, and reporting efficiency.
- Assist with implementation and optimization of compliance tooling and processes.
- Collaborate with and support compliance staff as needed.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3–5years of experience in IT compliance, audit and risk management.
- Hands-on experience and skills in using Varonis for access governance, monitoring, or audit support.
- Experience supporting audits and maintaining compliance controls.
- Strong documentation, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Demonstrated professional fluency in English (written and spoken) required for collaboration with global stakeholders and preparation of technical and compliance documentation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with ISO 27001, TISAX SOC, or similar frameworks.
- Strong familiarity with Jira, GRC platforms (e.g Archer, Drata, Vanta), and compliance training tools (KnowBe4)
- Experience with Active Directory (LDAP), M365 Entra and Purview
