Payal Shah
Mckinney
Summary
Experienced GRC Analyst with expertise in risk management, compliance, and process automation using Power Automate and Power Apps. Skilled in conducting risk assessments, ensuring regulatory compliance, and streamlining workflows. Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills, focused on improving efficiency and mitigating risk.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
GRC Analyst
State Farm
02.2023 - Current
- Identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to protect the organization’s operations, reputation, and performance.
- Monitors compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal procedures.
- Utilize Power Automate to create automated workflows to improve process efficiency and accuracy.
- Builds custom applications using Power Apps to manage and track compliance data, enhancing visibility and simplifying compliance workflows.
- Works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless communication and documentation related to compliance initiatives.
- Continuously improves governance frameworks, ensuring the organization remains compliant while minimizing risk exposure.
Threat Intelligence Analyst
State Farm
02.2020 - 02.2023
- Collecting, processing, and analyzing strategic/tactical intelligence and developing intelligence reports and briefings
- Continually curating relationships with key intelligence vendors, trust groups and threat intelligence community
- Correlating threat data from various sources to prepare advisories, assessments and cyber threat products for varieties of audiences
- Assessing technical intelligence collection and analytic products, such as behavioral analysis and sandbox testing
- Making strong analytical decisions to reduce risks and threat exposure
Process Design and Consulting Intern-Life/Health Department
State Farm
05.2019 - 08.2019
- Applying scientific methodologies to solve problems by creating innovative and sustainable business solutions
- Optimizing procedures on order to cut down on costs and improve overall efficiencies across the Investment Planning and Services (IPS) department
Education
Master of Science - Cyberlaw And Policy
Texas A&M University School of Law
College Station, TX12-2025
B.S. - Information Technology and Systems
The University of Texas At Dallas
09.2019
Skills
- Analytical thinking
- Power Apps/Automate
- Data research and validation
- Risk analysis
Technicalskills
- Risk Management
- Power Automate
- Power Apps
- Data Analysis
- Workflow Optimization
- Documentation Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Risk Assessment
- Governance Frameworks
- Problem Solving
- Reporting & Analysis
- Continuous Improvement
Certification
CompTIA Security+
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Languages
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Full Professional
Timeline
GRC Analyst
State Farm
02.2023 - Current
Threat Intelligence Analyst
State Farm
02.2020 - 02.2023
Process Design and Consulting Intern-Life/Health Department
State Farm
05.2019 - 08.2019
Master of Science - Cyberlaw And Policy
Texas A&M University School of Law
B.S. - Information Technology and Systems
The University of Texas At Dallas
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