Senior IT Audit Manager

Job Overview:

As a senior IT audit professional, you will lead audit engagements to evaluate complex technology and business risks. Your expertise in internal controls, IT risk assessment, and audit analytics will help clients navigate complexities and opportunities in their extended enterprises.

This role involves working closely with financial audit teams to identify, analyze, assess, monitor, and communicate risks presented by third-party providers. You will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing audit engagements, ensuring deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage IT audit engagements to identify and evaluate complex technology and business risks and internal controls that mitigate risks and related opportunities for internal control improvement.
• Advise on the selection and tailoring of approaches, methods, and tools to support service offerings for industry projects.
• Lead decision-making with audit engagement teams and seek to understand the broader impact of current decisions.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to use technology-based tools or methodologies to analyze, design, and/or implement products and services.
• Document audit results, draft recommendations, and present conclusions to client management.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of client business environments and basic IT risk management approaches.
• Participate in proposal development efforts.
• Demonstrate knowledge of market trends, competitor activities, and the firm's products and services.
• Participate in the development and delivery of firm-wide training on IT audit topics, such as IT controls, risk management, and emerging technologies.
• Continuously identify opportunities to innovate current IT audit processes to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and value-add to the firm and clients.

Experience Required:

To be successful in this role, candidates must have demonstrated abilities to perform all IT audit management duties, including:

• Adopting and executing a risk-based audit approach.
• Leading/executing complex technology process audit engagements.
• Staying up-to-date on emerging technologies and adapting them to IT audit requirements.
• Developing detailed audit programs in core IT areas, including data center, server, UNIX/Linux, Windows, database management, data & voice network, SDLC.
• Supervising staff auditors and developing their potential through timely on-the-job training.
• Executing tests of areas under review and deriving sound results from which assessments of the suitability of controls can be developed.
• Documenting results in work papers and reviewing the work of others.
• Establishing and maintaining close working relationships across all levels of audit teams and clients' management.

Position Requirements:

To be successful in this role, candidates must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems or Computer Science preferred; MBA/MS a plus; CISA (required) and/or other related information system security professional certification (e.g., CISSP).
• Understanding of financial audit standard setters and regulators, as well as basic understanding of AICPA professional standards related to internal controls.
• 7+ years IT audit or systems administration experience.
• In-depth understanding of SDLC, IT governance, information security administration, technology infrastructure in areas of virtualization technology environments and products, UNIX, Windows, routing protocols, active directory, database management, next-generation firewalls, among others.
• Understanding of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency protocols.
• Experience in managing risks associated with information systems and applying IT audit techniques.
• Experience in financial services organizations environment and FFIEC Guidelines is a plus.

Work Details:

Shift time: 10:30 AM IST - 7:30 PM IST

Work model: Work from Office

Office location: Hyderabad