IT Controls Sme

Job Title - IT Controls SME

Job Location - Bangalore

ABOUT UNILEVER:
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Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

MAIN JOB PURPOSE & BACKGROUND:
UniOps is one the global function in Unilever which is responsible for offering Business shared services to other functions, global brands, and markets. UniOps is a cross functional shared service model of teams across Go-To-Market (Marketing IT), Enterprise Operations (Finance and Supply Chain IT), Technology Service (IT Infra etc.), Cyber Security (Info Sec), Geo IT (for activation of IT solutions in Geo), Information and Analytics (I&A), Supply Chain Service, Financial and Procurement Services, Employee Experience etc.

The key responsibility of this role is to land, activate, automate and elevate understanding of SOX (Access & IT) Controls in UniOps function. From an IT control operations standpoint, this role will be key to deliver and drive the overall IT access and general controls agenda for Unilever.

Key actions as below:

- Drive OEC as central future fit function for driving IT General Controls agenda through tooling and automation
- Business partner with Multiple IT Functions to ensure compliance to IT general controls across multiple SAP and non-SAP Key Financial Applications
- Bring in technical expertise to optimize the IT controls operations and automations across the board
- Outside-in view of Infrastructure operations and control deployments across Unix, Windows, SQL, HANA, DB2, Oracle, etc
- Drive compliance through change management and digitization
- Innovation & Automation for all IT general controls processes in line with global change & release management team
- Matrix management of people, processes and resources including third parties - including resolving conflict to move forward to resolution
- Project Manage the internal and external Audit to ensure smooth audit reporting and deliverables
- Reporting on self-compliance and audits

Job Summary:
The OEC Controls SME plays a critical role to
- Bring in technical expertise to automate and optimize control operations for IT General Controls primaily in the area of change management, Infrastructure User Management for Unix, Windows, SQL, Oracle, DB2
- Build Tech business cases and partner the internal stakeholders to drive control automation with the Platforms to deliver the controls agenda
- Work with internal teams to identify key technology and tooling to minimize manual control operations
- Understand PCAOB auditing standards and changing audit requirements and help Unilever stay current and get early visibility of changes in audit practises
- Understand and adopt market best practises for Unilever IT general controls and tap into opportunities for automation across control scope

EXPERIENCE and SKILLS:

- In-depth understanding of PCAOB Auditing Standards
- Should have worked as an external or internal auditors and have experience in SOX audits
- Understanding of Access and IT controls for SOX
- Should have technical knowhow on Authentication mechanisms like LDAP, Kerberos etc
- Should have technical know-how on how user access is setup in Oracle/SQL/DB2 databases
- Should be able to design controls and implement control change management across various teams
- Should understand Cloud controls, SSAE16/SOC report review and assessments
- Should have ability to create buy-in for the program and vision, Bring outside-in view for a relevant context
- Good working knowledge ITGC, Project Management, Risk Management and Financial Management
- Strong Project management skills, ad stakeholder management
- Exposure of Agile project management and should be able to work in fast paced culture
- Experience of working in Global environment and teams
- Self-starter, motivator and quick learner, good team player
- Rigorous Approach/Attention to Detail
- Outstanding communication, presentation skills
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Creative thinker with a vision with ability to execute pragmatica