Risk & Compliance Analyst

Department Overview

McDonald’s is seeking a Risk Analyst to support our cybersecurity team as we protect our global brand. You will collaborate closely with cybersecurity experts, Global Technology teams, and business leaders to assess technology risk across McDonald’s. In addition, the Risk Analyst will help build a more secure culture through security awareness. As a Risk Analyst, you’ll play a vital role in helping us engage with business collaborators in order to enhance and accelerate the risk management program, which includes internal solution/application assessments.

We are moving fast and are adding to our best-in‑class team and joining McDonald's means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that will have a global impact. We are customer‑obsessed, committed to being leaders in our industry, and believe we are better when we work together. Over the last several years, we have launched home delivery, radically improved the digital experiences of our restaurants, introduced mobile pay, and have so much more to come.

These critical initiatives require strong leadership to ensure resilient security posture and compliance with policies, standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

McDonald’s is investing heavily in technology to drive our growth. We’re looking at how to use technology to improve the customer journey and build new customer experiences. We’re also exploring technologies that can help us reduce or eliminate repetitive tasks and make employees’ jobs more exciting and rewarding. With all the new projects and initiatives, it is an exciting time to be on the cybersecurity team, helping to make a safer and better McDonald's!

• Maintain a working knowledge of current industry risk and trends as well as clear understanding of McDonalds’ business and technical strategies in order to be accountable for identifying security risks and concerns.
• Perform complex application/infrastructure/solution security risk assessments to identify security risks and control gaps that put McDonald’s at risk.
• Communicate and prioritize security risks across the business and validate remediation efforts and timelines.
• Partner with relevant stakeholders to drive implementation of appropriate security controls and risk mitigation strategies to comply with McDonald’s policies and standards.
• Support management of the intake queue for new risk assessments and non‑compliance requests across the organization.
• Implement the mapping and reporting of risks and control objectives against industry frameworks to effectively highlight opportunities.
• Improve metrics and identify trends for risk management activities and drive visibility and transparency of business value for completed work.
• Advise and influence global technology and business management regarding security best practices, risk analysis, risk mitigation and reporting.
• Create process documentation, including workflows, process maps, and controls.

• Applicable bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (1-3 years) within Risk Management, Governance Risk and Compliance, Internal Audit, Third Party Risk Management, Compliance, Cybersecurity, or other related fields.
• Excellent written & verbal communication.
• Ability to build and maintain professional relationships across the organization.
• Detail‑oriented with strong project and time management, report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate messaging between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Process enhancements and the desire to improve excites you.
• Eagerness to join the ranks of a high performing team.

• Familiarity with complex multinational companies and distributed business models.
• Strong ability to develop and communicate strategic direction and long‑term objectives without supervision.
• Experience with Information/Technology Risk Management, Supply Chain Risk Management, Third Party Risk Management, and/or Global Regulatory Compliance.
• Proficient in technical writing and demonstrating various creative mechanisms to communicate to diverse audiences.
• Strong ability to assess urgency and prioritization and make good decisions based upon…