Senior IT Compliance Risk Analyst

Job Description

Our company’s IT division partners with colleagues across the business to help serve patients and customers around the world. We are a dynamic team of technology and risk professionals dedicated to leveraging data, security insights, and governance practices to strengthen our digital environment.

Join us in Prague as a Compliance Risk Analyst and become part of the IT Risk Management & Security (ITRMS) Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team, where you will play a key role in providing data driven insights into IT risk and compliance to our leadership, in support of informed decisions.

 

Responsibilities

• Analyze and prioritize IT risks
• Discover internal business reporting needs and data products that meet the reporting needs.
• Develop reporting requirements and oversee analytics and reporting solutions from Proof of Concept through Production release.
• Analyze compliance and risk indicators for IT controls, with a strong focus on Access Management.
• Translate strategic risk and compliance objectives into actionable delivery plans and initiatives.
• Partner with platform, security, and engineering teams to design, influence, and drive implementation of agreed solutions.
• Provide advisory input and practical guidance to platform teams, ensuring alignment with leadership decisions and enterprise standards.
• Track remediation progress and control effectiveness, and proactively escalate risks and dependencies as needed.
• Keep leadership regularly informed of risk trends, control effectiveness, and remediation status.

 

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or Information Systems)
• 6-8 years of IT risk and compliance / IT audit experience
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Identity & Access Management (IAM) concepts, including:
  • Provisioning and deprovisioning
  • Identity lifecycle management
  • RBAC / ABAC
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Experience evaluating or auditing access governance processes and identity providers
• Understanding of IT security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX ITGC, NIST)
• Experience translating technical control findings into actionable risk insights and remediation plans
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail and ability to interpret complex technical data
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for technical teams, business partners, and executive leadership.

 

Preferred

• Certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, CIA, or similar
• Experience in cloud-native IAM governance controls
• Exposure to Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions
• Basic knowledge of SQL or Python for data analysis and reporting automation
• Experience with data analytics and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire, or similar

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5  weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40  paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner 

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Required Skills:

Analytics, Collaboration, Executive Communications, Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Information Technology Auditing, IT Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Technology Risk

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

05/1/2026

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Global pharmaceutical company known for oncology, vaccines, and infectious disease treatments. Headquartered in Rahway, NJ.

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