Technical Risk Analyst

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Security Group:

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape. This role sits on the Technical Risk Analysis team, which is responsible for assessing new technologies and other potentially risky changes to Bridgewater’s security posture to ensure such risks are well-controlled, documented, and monitored through time.

About the Role:

The Technical Risk Analyst (TRA) role at Bridgewater is key to the full lifecycle of security risk management, from assessing new technologies and how the business uses technology to assuring that specified risk controls remain effective in those technologies over time. The TRA is the linchpin on our security team for identifying and controlling the security risks facing Bridgewater, helping our technology and business teams make risk-informed decisions, and holding those teams accountable to their agreed risk controls.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Analyze and identify security risks in new or changed technologies used by the firm, new external service providers and other third parties using risk frameworks, technical architectures, and control standards;
• Analyze and identify security risks associated with exceptions to security policies, standards, and controls;
• Analyze and identify effectiveness of controls through time;
• Partner with other security teams, including our Security Architecture team, Business Information Security team, Business Continuity team, and Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) team to identify gaps in risk frameworks, escalate above threshold risks, and improve risk analysis workflows;
• Bring forward security risk analyses, controls exceptions, and other findings to decision-makers in the technology and business organizations for risk adjudication;
• Systematize risk analysis to permit on-going consistent assessment and controls assurance
• Work with Security Engineering to build, as needed, capabilities to monitor control effectiveness and support on-going assurance

You’d click for this role…

…If you’re knowledgeable in:

• Fundamental technology and security architectures (broad vs. deep)
• Fundamental security principles and approaches to mitigating various types of security risk
• Beginner to intermediate understanding aspects of web application security, networking security, and/or cloud security

…If you’re great at:

• Staying organized in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborating across teams
• Analyzing data against a set of agreed requirements and identifying problems
• Learning and adapting to new ways of operating and diverse requirements
• Effectively maintaining risk analysis documentation including analysis outputs, frameworks, patterns, and security requirements

…If you’re able to:

• Quickly learn about business processes, how technology is used, and fundamental security risks
• Summarize analysis data, communicate findings, explain reasoning at both strategic and tactical levels
• Identify and resolve problems associated with the analytic responsibilities
• Manage and effectively work through ambiguous situations
• Productively manage conflicts and disagreements

You’ll be into this if you:

• Thrive in an environment focused on excellence
• Are passionate about the importance of security and prepared to think critically about practical security problems without defaulting to “check the box” thinking
• Have a strong ownership mentality and drive for results

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with fully-remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $110,000-$230,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Learning how to build teams that span levels and organizations
• Developing rich expertise across a broad set of finance operations problems and principles
• Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
• Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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