GRC Jobs in Brazil: Laws, Job Titles and Who Is Hiring

What is GRC, and what does it mean in Brazil?

GRC stands for governance, risk and compliance: the work of keeping an organization inside the law, inside its own rules and inside the risks it chose to take. In Brazil the acronym is rare. Employers and job seekers name the parts instead: compliance, segurança da informação (information security), auditoria interna (internal audit) and riscos (risk).

What do people in Brazil search for?

• Semrush keyword data, Brazil, November 8, 2026: "o que é compliance" (what is compliance) is searched about 14,800 times a month, more than any other compliance question in the country.
• Same Semrush data: "vagas segurança da informação" (information security jobs) gets about 720 searches a month, "vagas cibersegurança" 390, "vagas compliance" 320 and "vagas auditoria interna" 260.
• Semrush, Brazil, same month: "vagas grc" gets about 10 searches. Search by the name of the function instead.

Which laws create GRC jobs in Brazil?

• Lei 13.709/2018 (LGPD), Art. 41: every company that controls personal data must name an encarregado, Brazil's term for a data protection officer. Article 5 defines the controlador (controller) and the operador (processor).
• Lei 12.846/2013 (Clean Company Act), Art. 2: companies are strictly liable, in administrative and civil law, for harmful acts against the public administration. Art. 7, VIII, lets the penalty reflect the company's internal integrity, audit and whistleblowing procedures.
• Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/179, Art. 1: the European Union finds that Brazil "ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data" sent from the EU to organizations covered by the LGPD.
• EU AI Act, Art. 2(1)(c): the regulation also applies to providers and deployers outside the EU when the output of their AI system is used in the EU.
• Câmara dos Deputados, record of PL 2338/2023: Brazil's own AI bill came from the Senate and reached the Chamber on March 17, 2025. At the Chamber's last update, on October 27, 2026, it was awaiting a committee report.

Is it the same in Portugal?

Same language, different words. Portugal's anti-money-laundering law, Lei 83/2017, Art. 16, calls the compliance officer the "responsável pelo cumprimento normativo". A Brazilian job ad says compliance. So an advertisement written in Lisbon and one written in São Paulo use different words for the same post.

Who is hiring for GRC in Brazil right now?

These roles come from the GRC Careers job board and change every time the board refreshes. Each one links to the employer's own posting. When this page was checked, most were in São Paulo, at banks, fintechs and technology companies.

Which Brazilian city should you look at?

Each city hires differently. São Paulo has most of the private-sector roles. Brasília is where the federal regulators sit. Rio de Janeiro keeps the headquarters of the securities regulator and the national development bank. Porto Alegre is the south, where German and Italian immigrants settled in the 1800s. I have been to Porto Alegre, Rio and São Paulo, among other Brazilian cities.

For nonprofit and public-sector leadership roles, our US board ExecSearches lists them. Next door, our guide to GRC jobs in Argentina covers a country whose data protection law the EU has treated as adequate since 2003. For opinion on where the field is going, read grccareers.ai.

New roles in Brazil post regularly. Set a job alert and you will hear when one does.