IT Audit - Senior Associate at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Job description

Job Summary

As IT Risk Assurance Senior Associate, you’ll contribute technically to IT Risk and Assurance client engagements and internal projects. An important part of your role will be to actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. You’ll also identify potential business opportunities for Ernst & Young within existing engagements, and escalate these as appropriate. Similarly, you’ll anticipate and identify risks within engagements and share any issues with senior members of the team.

In line with Ernst & Young’s commitment to quality, you’ll confirm that work is of high quality and is reviewed by the next-level reviewer. As an influential member of the team, you’ll help to create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Client responsibilities

• Participate in IT Risk and Assurance engagements
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Help prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
• Build strong internal relationships within Ernst & Young Advisory Services and with other services across the organization

People responsibilities

• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting and retaining IT Risk and Assurance professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Desired Skills and Experience
Technical skills requirements

You’ll have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas, and be developing deep experience and technical competence in at least one:

• Governance and IT management
• IT governance and risk:
• Control frameworks such as COSO
• Enterprise risk services with a specific focus on IT, and related industry standards
• IT risk management framework
• Common IT governance and control industry frameworks, including CObIT, RiskIT, ValIT, IT
• Governance Institute and ISACA good practices
• IT industry frameworks such as ITIL and CMM
• Project risk:
• Robust understanding of program and project management practices
• Familiarity with a typical IT systems development life cycle
• Experience in developing technical skills specific to a solution, e.g., SAP, Oracle, CRM
• Proven business process/analysis skills
• IT assurance and compliance
• A broad appreciation of business processes, data structures, IT applications and infrastructure, IT processes, and governance and internal control principles.
• Depending upon your specific area(s) of focus, you’ll have additional skills and knowledge in:
• IT audit in the context of a financial audit, and related regulations, auditing standards and guidelines
• Control frameworks such as COSO, internal control principles and related regulations including SOX and J-SOX
• Internal audit services with a specific focus on IT, and related industry standards
• Common IT governance, control and assurance industry frameworks, including CObIT, RiskIT, ValIT, IT Governance Institute and ISACA good practices
• IT industry frameworks such as ITIL and CMM
• Third party reporting standards (particularly SAS 70), other reporting and industry specific standards and, if applicable, trust based standards such as SysTrust and WebTrust
• Infrastructure
• Technically enabled IT /business transformation, program and project delivery, design, architecture and solution design, information management, implementation, operations, and management of IT infrastructure
• Information systems security assessment, design, architecture, implementation management and reporting
• Strong technical or security skills related to a broad range of operating systems, databases or security tools, e.g., UNIX, Linux, Windows 2000 and NT, firewalls and IDS systems
• Familiarity with IT analysis, delivery and operations methods, including SDLC and CMM

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