IT Audit Manager

The Manager, IT Audit will take a lead role in planning, organizing, and executing information security and SOX IT audits with guidance from the Head of Internal Audit. In this role, you will be a truly collaborative partner, with the opportunity to bring your unique point of view, experience, and passion for the work to your IA team and internal clients.

You will help the Head of Internal Audit further refine the vision of the function and develop a roadmap for expanding team digital capabilities, including taking a leadership role in expanding the use of information systems and technologies; increasing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of internal audit activities; providing strategic assistance in the development of integrated systems/processes designed to help manage and monitor potential areas of risk. You will build and develop an IT internal audit function and assist the Head of Internal Audit in providing assessment, assurance, and advisory support of key enterprise, compliance, and general IT SOX risks. As the team matures, you will help bring automation, transformation, and data analysis not only to internal audit activities but also as recommendations to functional and IT leaders in the Company.

You demonstrate strong ability and deep experience in IT SOX compliance and operational information security audits, together with relationship building and communication skills. Managing Internal Audit activities requires collaborating with peers in execution, providing clear direction and coaching, holding others accountable, managing projects effectively, communicating with business owners, and developing and maintaining strong business relationships. In this role, you’ll provide risk insights to and collaborate with business owners across the enterprise. You have a “can do” attitude, a strong desire to “step out of the comfort zone” and learn new technology and business requirements, and grow to become a true risk and control adviser and an effective team lead. As the IT audit function is at an early stage, this role starts as a hands-on role.

• Participates in enterprise risk assessment and help draft the annual internal audit plan
• Leads and supervises risk assessments, scoping, planning, and field work activities for a variety of IT, cyber and compliance internal audit projects and annual SOX IT audit 
• Collaborate with peers in executing audit fieldwork (SOX IT controls, compliance, and cyber audits) and ensure audit conclusions are well documented and supported, making improvement recommendations to management where applicable.
• Coordinate with external auditors in SOX 404 and financial statement audits.
• Help project manage and support co-sourcing or consulting external resources where applicable.
• Draft clear and meaningful findings, high-quality audit reports, project status reports, presentations, and other materials for senior management and the Board.
• Lead business partners in tracking internal audit observations to resolutions.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured situations.

• Contribute to the development of strategic plans and objectives
• Participate in initiatives in streamlining internal audit operations (e.g., internal audit automation, tool implementation, etc.)
• Proactively identify opportunities for audit process automation through use of analytics and robotics process automation 

• Builds collaborative and trusting relationships with business partners, management, and other cross-functional stakeholders
• Interacts regularly with management and clearly communicate and articulate valuable business insights

• 6+ years of experience in technology internal audit, SOX IT control testing, cybersecurity audit.
• Open to learn new technology, and adapt to new processes
• Ability to recognize risks and business concerns of the company as a whole
• Ability to manage conflicting objectives, groups, and individuals across functions or organizations
• Have a sense of urgency and be able to work in a fast pace environment
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools in the flow of work. Candidates with a pre-existing comfort level and familiarity using AI to enhance productivity are strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degrees in Information System Management, Computer Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or related fields
• Experience in a Big 4 auditing firms and exposure to the Technology Industry is preferable
• One or more relevant professional certifications preferred (CISA, CISM, CISSP, etc.)
• Strong understanding of IT, engineering processes and cloud operational environment
• Familiarity with Oracle Fusion preferred
• Familiarity with analytics/robotics process automation 
• Strong analytical & critical thinking skills and ability to handle multi-projects with prioritization
• Highly detail oriented, with a strong propensity for high quality work product
• Motivated self-starter who works well individually and in teams
• Ability, competence, and confidence to lead people
• IT, engineering or cloud operation experience is a plus
• Some travel may be required