GRC Analyst

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• We require an active SC clearance.
• We require the candidate to be a sole UK national.
• The candidate must not have been outside the UK for more than 28 consecutive days during the past 5 years.
• The role must be worked via PAYE through an umbrella company.
• We are looking for someone with experience supporting cyber security risk management, compliance, and governance activities.
• We need someone familiar with frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NCSC guidance, and Secure by Design principles.
• We need someone with the ability to produce governance reporting and present information to stakeholders and forums.

Responsibilities

• We maintain oversight of cyber security risks across suppliers.
• We ensure risks are identified, assessed, recorded, tracked, and escalated appropriately.
• We govern risk acceptance and exception management processes.
• We support risk-based prioritisation across security disciplines.
• We coordinate supplier compliance activities within the SIAM framework.
• We validate supplier adherence to agreed security requirements.
• We monitor security performance against contractual obligations.
• We drive accountability for control weaknesses, non-compliance, and improvement actions.
• We maintain visibility of compliance obligations and control requirements.
• We support compliance against relevant frameworks and standards.
• We coordinate remediation of identified compliance gaps.
• We produce consolidated security governance reporting.
• We provide visibility of security risks, compliance status, control effectiveness, supplier performance, and assurance findings.
• We present governance information to client stakeholders and governance forums.
• We support strategic planning and risk-informed decision making.
• We drive security governance maturity improvements across the supplier landscape.
• We identify opportunities to improve risk management, compliance processes, assurance effectiveness, and security governance practices.
• We support continuous improvement programmes across the cyber security operating model.
• We facilitate cross-supplier resolution of governance issues.

Technologies

• Support
• Security

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We are recruiting for a GRC Analyst in Manchester on a hybrid basis, with around 80% remote work and 20% onsite attendance. This is a contract role with a duration through 31/10/2031 and a rate of £480 to £520. We ask candidates to remain alert to suspicious outreach and to contact us via the ManpowerGroup website if they receive any messages claiming to be from us.

last updated 34 week of 2026