Current Opportunitie

IT Auditor

Financial Controls Leader COSO Testing

Seeking a highly motivated individual to join a team of COSO testing professionals and will have enterprise-wide exposure to key stakeholders within the external financial/risk/regulatory reporting infrastructure. The Enterprise COSO Testing team is a component of the Enterprise Controls & Oversight (ECO) Group in the Corporate Controllers group.

The IT COSO team within ECO supports the Company’s on-going objective of maintaining an industry-leading information technology control environment and is responsible for the following directives:

  • Providing meaningful assessments of IT control environments impacted by financial, risk, and regulatory reporting
  • Assessing compliance with Company’s COSO based policies for IT controls impacted by internal controls over financial reporting (SEC and Regulatory Reporting) and strategic planning for on-going IT control compliance with COSO policies (proactive anticipation of internal control related matters)
  • Monitoring new and emerging internal control related guidance and issues and assist with facilitating group-wide training to interested and impacted stakeholders
  • Providing consultation and subject matter expertise for process and IT control related matters including evaluating the severity of control deficiencies and related remediation efforts
  • Providing process and control support and thought leadership for projects
  • Interfacing with external auditors, regulators, and others on control related matters and,
  • Acting as a change agent for continual improvement of the control environment.

 

This individual will be responsible for the following team directives:

  • Performing the following for IT Application Control (ITAC) and IT General Control (ITGC) testing: Partnering with IT/LOB Process Owners/Control Owners to document significant in-scope processes according to corporate COSO policy (both process narratives and process flow diagrams). Additionally, assessing the appropriateness and completeness of key risk and key controls identified
  • Performing walkthroughs of significant processes and ensure required COSO documentation is accurate and reflects relevant risk and key controls
  • Partnering with IT/LOB Process Owners/Control Owners in the creation of process risk assessments (RAM) as well as validating and challenging risk assessment conclusions
  • Validating and providing a credible challenge to identified shared services, third party service providers, and significant applications
  • Performing COSO testing of key ITACs and ITGCs, including design effectiveness assessments and operating effectiveness testing
  • Validating and challenging documentation of control deficiencies, including issue description, root cause, unmitigated impact, and corrective actions
  • Analyzing the severity of control deficiencies and their impact on internal control over financial reporting
  • Validating corrective actions and issues
  • Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders in the applicable line of business (IT) functions related to assigned process areas
  • Provide professional assessment and judgment on results of control testing to testing leadership
  • Consult with testing leadership in a professional position related to testing results
  • Assisting with projects impacting the team.

Required Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: finance, accounting, analytics, reporting or business/technology audit.
  • Or a BS/BA degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, or Business and 2+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: finance, accounting, analytics, reporting or business/technology audit

Desired Qualifications:

  • Basic Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) skills
  • Intermediate Microsoft Visio skills

Other Desired Qualifications:

  • 3 years’ experience in IT audit and/or IT SOX advisory/consulting service or Public Accounting
  • Experience with large financial institutions
  • Strong knowledge of the COSO and COBIT 5 Frameworks.
  • Prefer one or more of the following certifications: CISA, CISM, CISSP
  • Practical experience performing and documenting IT audit/IT COSO ITGC/ITAC testing
  • Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to credibly challenge status quo
  • Strong relationship management skills ability to negotiate difficult positions without harming relationships
Posted On: Friday, Apr 20, 2018

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