Insider Threat Program Analyst - Taxation

The mission of the Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) is to become a trusted partner to every Coloradan, helping them navigate the complexities of government so they can thrive. Our core values of service, teamwork, accountability, integrity, and respect drive us.

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As part of the State of Colorado, DOR offers a competitive benefits package to permanent employees:

• PERA retirement benefits including PERA Defined Benefit Plan, PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus 401K and 457 plans

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage

• Automatic Short-Term and Optional Long-Term Disability Coverage

• Life and AD&D Insurance

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) job protection and State of Colorado Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML)

• 11 Paid Holidays Annually and Accrued Annual and Sick Leave

• Variety of discounts on services and products available through the State of Colorado's Work-Life Employment Discount Program

The Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) Taxation Division is searching for a strategic, technical, and analytical professional to join our team as a GRC Business Analyst (ITP). In this role, you will be at the center of protecting the safety and compliance of Colorado's state tax administration. You will work within the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Unit, which is a vital team inside the division's Research and Legislative Services (RLS) Section.

Our unit’s mission is to make sure our state taxation processes follow the absolute best practices for governance, risk management, and legal compliance. We spend our days monitoring database data for quality, finding opportunities to automate complex tasks, and catching operational errors or potential internal fraud.

As a designated Staff Authority for our unit's Insider Threat Program (ITP), you will serve as the department's consultative expert. Agency managers and leadership will routinely rely on your advice and professional findings when making broad, critical decisions about our program policies and strategic directions. Instead of just running basic checklists, you will have the freedom and independent authority to decide how we evaluate operational excellence and compliance across the department.

For example, you will decide on the exact benchmarks and quality metrics (such as maximum allowable error rates) that govern whether a compliance task is successfully completed.

In this position, you will balance high-level consulting with deep-dive technical programming. You will spend your time building strong relationships with different tax divisions, studying how tax programs are structured, and writing code to uncover hidden risks. Your work will directly protect state revenue, prevent internal security leaks, and make state government run more efficiently for Colorado citizens.

In this role, you will lead quality engagements and design risk-based, automated tools to spot operational and security issues. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Analyze and Document Operations:
  Partner with different tax sections to study how their business programs run. You will review standard operating procedures, interview staff, and inspect cloud-based solutions to build a deep, end-to-end understanding of our operational environment.

• Formulate Strategic Solutions:
  Critically review business data across targeted state programs to find ways…