IT Audit Manager, Sr

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate significant exposures to risk and contribute to the improvement of risk management and control systems.
• Work closely with IT/Risk management to understand products, organizational initiatives, and systems, and provide quality audit services meeting department and professional standards.
• Foster awareness of the importance of internal controls to management and report clearly, concisely, and logically in verbal and written form to effectively highlight gaps and/or deficiencies.
• Conduct IT audits or reviews as assigned within Internal Audit.
• Work closely with the SOX team to ensure completion of semi-annual SOX key control testing.
• Perform follow-up work on audit report findings to ascertain that management implemented their corrective action plan timely.
• Oversee moderate to highly complex internal audits for assigned business segments.
• Update the Internal Audit Risk Assessment upon completion of an audit.
• Lead or influence the annual IT audit risk assessment and identification of emerging IT risks.
• Evaluate controls that support Sarbanes-Oxley requirements including tests of control design and effectiveness regarding applications, databases, and the general computing environment.
• Manage scope, resources, and dependencies to meet firm deadlines without compromising quality.
• Participate in special projects as requested by management.
• Provide advisory support and effective challenge for new enterprise initiatives.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or relevant business-related field.
• One or more IT certifications (CISA, CISSP, CISM, etc.).
• Strong organizational, analytical, oral and written communication skills.
• Deep understanding of operational and technical information systems concepts and controls including network infrastructure, computer operating systems, database management systems, SDLC, change management, IT governance, and complex computer applications.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of IT audit or relevant business experience.
• Ability to work within strict deadlines.
• Public Accounting, Regulatory, or external audit experience is a plus.
• Banking experience is a plus.
• Experience using Optro (AuditBoard) is a plus.