The associate role involves managing technology platform assessments, ensuring readiness and remediation, performing IT General and Application Controls testing, liaising with stakeholders, and facilitating execution and reporting. The position offers a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with significant impact potential.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assess and perform IT general control and application control testing; facilitate identification of findings, relevant compensating controls, remediation, validation, and closure of findings within defined timeframes
- Execute on multiple controls adoption readiness assessments performed by various members of the team
- Evaluate the functionality of existing and new technology platforms to drive adherence to control standards
- Track and communicate overall progress of various program, ensuring complete and timely reporting on program status to senior management stakeholders
- Ensure key risks impacting controls audits are addressed prior to initiation of audits
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand and document various current-state control processes and process flows
- Examine results of internal / external audits for potential cross-impacts on other programs
- Ensure quality standards are achieved in development and maintenance of program documentation
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- 2+ years of IT controls experience as a practitioner / lead with a “Big Four” or top IT consulting firm.
- Knowledge of information technology and auditing of IT general controls (SOX / SOC 1 / SOC 2)
- Experience with public/private Cloud technologies (Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and technology platforms
- Ability to simultaneously execute on multiple on-going assessments across different groups of stakeholders
- Ability to initiate meetings, problem solving to identify solutions to issues and deliver quality results in a deadline-driven environment
- Good presentation skills. Strong organizational, verbal and written -- including documentation and reporting -- communication skills
- High energy and a passion for the delivery of high-quality project outcomes
- Highly motivated, self-starter that can work autonomously and can independently take initiative to learn new technologies using various resources
- Results oriented, strong sense of ownership, detail oriented, quality-focused
- Ability to work effectively in a global team environment and drive results in a matrixed organization
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience with public/private Cloud technologies (Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and technology platforms (ServiceNow, Jenkins, SailPoint, etc.)