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 to 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.

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Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

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About the Security Department

The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We secure the investment engine, which manages assets for global institutional clients, as well as all other business operations. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape.

About Your Role

The Lead, Controls Assurance role is a senior individual contributor of the Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team at Bridgewater. The GRC team is responsible for Bridgewater’s compliance with security regulations, client obligations, and the practical understanding, communicating, and building of programmatic readiness to respond to the security risks facing the company. You will be response for developing, evaluating, testing, and strengthening the design and operating effectiveness of internal security controls across the organization. This role partners closely with business units, technology partners, risk owners, and audit teams to ensure controls remain fit for purpose and regulatory and compliance obligations are met. You will maintain overall oversight and execution of how the Security department manages the firm’s controls posture, including identification or mitigation of any control deficiencies. Additionally, this role will have a significant focus on controls automation and monitoring to further mature the program.

You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities

Develop and lead the Controls Assurance Program at Bridgewater.
Plan and execute control testing plans across operational, security, and technology risk areas.
Gather and review process documentation, evidence, control narratives, and risk-control matrices for accuracy and completeness.
Identify control gaps, design weaknesses, and instances of non-compliance, and document findings clearly.