Senior IT Compliance Analyst

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A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for a new team member to join our Boston-based IT Governance Risk Audit and Compliance (GRAC) team as a Senior IT Compliance Analyst. In this role, the IT Senior Compliance Analyst will take an active role in the execution of our IT audit and compliance framework, while collaborating closely with both internal and external partners.

This position offers the chance to make a significant impact, working with external global regulators and collaborating with internal regional legal and compliance leaders across regions from an enterprise-wide viewpoint. If you’re passionate about driving meaningful change, growing your career, and helping lead an evolving global IT audit and compliance program, we’re interested in speaking with you.

Lead in executing IT audit/compliance activities, and follow up with responsible parties regarding outstanding requests, and/or questions. Maintain, organize, and store audit evidence in preparation for upcoming scheduled audits. Conduct audit readiness assessments (i.e., health checks) and assess the effectiveness of current controls and processes in place. Lead in developing, implementing, and executing additional internal IT audit/compliance activities. Coordinate with team members regarding the remediation status of closing out identified audit gaps and ensuring compensating controls are implemented.

Review third‑party service providers/vendors as part of IT due diligence, including assessing vendor control environment, reviewing SOC reports (i.e., SOC 2 type 2 reports), validating security certifications, identifying control gaps, and ensuring required remediation or compensating controls. Analyze and support compliance with global IT regulatory authorities (i.e., GDPR, CBI, DORA, MAS, APRA, BAFIN, etc.) and coordinate with individuals to ensure controls are in place to meet requirements.

Provide support to our offices from both a U.S. and global perspective (i.e., Asia, Middle East, UK, Europe, Australasia, etc.) regarding the fulfillment of external audit requests and obligations. Attend/participate in e‑learning training sessions to increase background knowledge of the ever‑evolving IT regulatory landscape. Support in AI risk and governance oversight to ensure responsible and compliant use of AI technologies.

• 6+ years of experience working in an IT audit/compliance function with a general understanding (at minimum) in several of the IT audit/compliance topics listed below:
  Active Directory, password standards, user access provisioning/deprovisioning, user access reviews, change management, batch jobs/backups, disaster recovery, service accounts, patch management, risk assessment.
• Software development and IT operations knowledge to assess the planning and ongoing maintenance of Dev Sec Ops  practices and Application security.
• Knowledge of cloud governance, cloud technology and cloud security is a plus.
• Solid background…