Senior Internal Audit Associate - Technology

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Internal Audit Team responsible for assessing the adequacy of the firm's internal control environment!

As a Senior Internal Audit Associate within the Technology team, you will cover Markets and Post Trade Technology. The Commercial & Investment Banking Audit Team is responsible for assessing the adequacy of the control environments across the businesses. This is achieved through a program of audit coverage, which is performed and managed by a global team of integrated technology and financial business audit specialists.

Job responsibilities

• Participate on technology audit engagements, from planning to reporting, and produce quality deliverables to both department and professional standards, while ensuring audits are completed timely and within budget.
• Work closely with global Audit colleagues to ensure that key risks are identified and assessed in the program of audit coverage.
• Assist in all aspects of audits including risk assessments, audit planning, audit testing, control evaluation, report drafting and follow up and verification of issue closure.
• Perform audit work in accordance with department and professional standards, and complete assignments in an efficient manner.
• Pay attention to detail to ensure accuracy and completeness of audit coverage.
• Write audit work papers and reports with minimal intervention by the Audit Director.
• Partner with colleagues, stakeholders and control community members to evaluate, test and report on the adequacy and effectiveness of management controls with appropriate recommendations for improvement. This may be delivered through specific audit reviews or through ongoing involvement in major activities or projects.
• Communicate audit findings to management, and identify opportunities for improvement in the design and effectiveness of key controls.
• Find ways to drive efficiency with existing technical infrastructure through automation while embracing the innovative opportunities offered by new technologies.

• Bachelor's degree in Technology (or relevant experience)
• 5+ years of internal or external technology auditing experience, or relevant technology risk and control management experience.
• Solid understanding of internal control concepts with the ability to evaluate and determine the adequacy of controls by considering business and technology risks in an integrated manner.
• Extensive knowledge of system development life cycle concepts with an ability to quickly learn a complex, distributed computing environment.
• Great analytical skills, particularly in regard to assessing the probability and impact of an internal control weakness
• Experience in planning and executing audits in accordance with professional standards. Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently in an efficient and effective manner with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Also, good interpersonal skills with the ability to present complex and sensitive issues to senior management, and influence change.
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated, with a keen interest in learning; effective under pressure and willing to take personal responsibility/accountability as well as flexible to changing business priorities and ability to multitask in a constantly changing environment.

• Related professional certification such as CISA, CISSP, or CIA
• Knowledge of coding, data analytics and/or distributed technologies
• Risk management knowledge in public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) services