Cloud Control Assurance Associate

Company Profile

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade.

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
- Role Profile
- Working within the Cloud Risk and Regulatory Function for Cloud and Productivity Engineering as a Control Assurance Associate responsible for undertaking complex and specialized auditing of internal controls in accordance with industry auditing standards, determining the effectiveness of a control’s design and effectiveness.
- Tech Profile/Essential Skills- Experience working for a big 4 consultancy or similar within an audit capability.-
- Experience working with AWS, GCP or Azure environments within a DevSecOps organization.-
- Good experience within IT risk and controls, as an Analyst or Specialist (CISA).-
- Good understanding of risk management activities such as identifying, tracking, monitoring and mitigating IT risk and being able to articulate and define it.-
- Knowledge in one or more of the following tools: Office 365, Jira, PowerBI, ServiceNow & Cutover.-
- Preferred Qualifications_: CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, CCSK or similar- Education and Professional Skills- Strong Communication Skills: Ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and work collaboratively in a team environment.-
- Problem-Solving Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of finding solutions to complex technical challenges.-
- Proven ability to understand and develop concept driven solutions and problems.- Critical Deliverables:
- Assist in control testing including obtaining evidence and challenging information provided to support the control design and operating effectiveness throughout the year to validate the effectiveness of controls and residual risk assessment.-
- Advise cloud and productivity engineering function leads on risk matters impacting the strategic objectives of the business and providing challenge from a semi-independent viewpoint within 1LoD.-
- Support in improving internal control testing assurance processes and scripts ensuring full breadth of coverage to determine control efficacy and identification of control weaknesses.-
- Responsible for undertaking control audits to determine control design and operating effectiveness.-
- Engaging with controls owners to improve control design and operating effectiveness.-
- Perform validation testing on Audit and Self-Identified Issues and actions to ensure remediation is complete, fully evidenced and addresses the issue raised.-
- Key stakeholder discussions to best improve IT governance controls.-
- Giving independent risk review insight and recommendation to the team and the Cloud and productivity engineering leadership team.-
- Working to ensure best risk and controls practice.-
- Preparing, collating, and distributing meeting information packs, minutes, and reports for IT Risk meetings.-
- Picking up on ad-hoc work pertaining to risk and controls.-
- Generate reporting dashboards detailing audit assurance output across cloud and productivity engineering controls.-
- Ad hoc projects and initiatives.- Role Impact- By strengthening risk management capabilities in Cloud and Productivity Engineering, the role holder is directly contributing to the improved management of risk and therefore avoidance of negative events with revenue or reputational impacts. The role holder will have the opportunity to support a complex agenda of change activities that contribute to the material success of the organisation by reducing operational risks and ensuring that the business can make investment and mitigation decisions with appropriate data and rigour.LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financia