Lead, Salesforce Compliance & Security

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

The Role: Lead, Salesforce Compliance and Security 

The Team:

The Salesforce Compliance & Security team is responsible for defining, operating, and continuously improving the control, security, and resilience posture of S&P Global’s Salesforce ecosystem across multiple orgs and divisions. It is a cross-functional, globally distributed team that partners closely with Technology, Cyber Security, Risk, and Business stakeholders to deliver standardized, scalable, and auditable services. The team values operational rigor, transparency, and automation-driven scale, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, documentation, and continuous improvement.

The Impact:

In this role, you will directly shape how S&P Global manages compliance, security, and resilience for one of its most critical enterprise platforms, ensuring Salesforce environments meet regulatory, audit, and cyber requirements. Your work will help safeguard sensitive data, reduce operational and cyber risk, and improve control maturity across all in-scope Salesforce orgs. By strengthening controls, access governance, and disaster recovery, you will enable business teams to innovate on Salesforce with confidence and trust in the platform.

What’s in it for you:

• Own a broad mandate across compliance, access governance, security engineering, monitoring, and disaster recovery for a multi-org, enterprise Salesforce landscape. 
• Partner with senior technology, cyber, and risk leaders to design and implement control frameworks, standards, and operating models that shape how Salesforce is governed across S&P Global. 
• Develop deep expertise in Salesforce risk, compliance, and security while gaining exposure to SOX/ITGC, enterprise cyber, GRC, and resilience practices. 
• Drive automation and process improvement at scale, leading standardization, evidence pipelines, and enablement programs that materially reduce manual effort and improve control quality.

Responsibilities:

• Design and operate the Salesforce compliance control framework (including SOX-relevant controls), standardizing procedures across orgs and ensuring sustained effectiveness, evidence quality, and successful audit outcomes. 
• Lead audit readiness and remediation governance by coordinating PBCs, walkthroughs, responses to internal/external auditors, and tracking findings and corrective actions to closure with clear reporting to leadership. 
• Establish and enforce access governance and least-privilege standards through scalable role and permission design, consistent access request/approval models, periodic certifications, and exception/SoD risk management. 
• Translate enterprise cyber and security requirements into Salesforce security standards, baselines, and preventative guardrails, driving prioritized risk remediation and security-by-design for changes and integrations. 
• Strengthen detection, incident response, and resilience by defining logging/alerting strategies with SOC/SecOps, maintaining incident and DR runbooks, and planning/executing DR tests and readiness reporting. 
• Scale compliance delivery and enablement via standardized intake, service catalog and SLAs, automation of evidence and reporting, publication of playbooks/SOPs, targeted training, and recurring governance forums.

What We’re Looking For:

Key Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting/Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. 
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, platform operations, security/compliance, risk management, audit support, or related roles (Salesforce exposure strongly preferred). 
• Demonstrated understanding of compliance and control concepts (e.g., SOX, ITGC), evidence management, and audit coordination, plus familiarity with access governance and least-privilege principles. 
• Ability to work effectively with Salesforce security/access constructs (roles, profiles, permission sets) in partnership with platform teams; Salesforce or relevant security/GRC certifications are a plus. 

Key Soft Skills 

• Operationally rigorous and detail-oriented, with strong analytical, documentation, and follow-through skills. 
• Exceptional communicator and facilitator, able to translate technical, security, and control concepts into clear, business-friendly language for diverse stakeholders. 
• Collaborative and influential, skilled at driving cross-functional alignment, prioritization, and accountability in a matrixed, global environment. 
• Continuous improvement mindset, comfortable challenging the status quo, standardizing processes, and leveraging automation and tooling to scale services.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

 

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
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