Senior Internal IT Auditor, North of Boston
International Staffing Consultants
- Lowell, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Take responsibility for the relationship with the auditees and become a recognized partner to the business.
- Strike the right balance between stakeholders' needs and flexibility on the one hand, while maintaining the right level of independence and
- Manage communication with stakeholders from all hierarchy levels.
- Interact with external auditors in specific cases.
- Collaborate on departmental and inter-organizational projects.
- Increase knowledge across different business lines and bring added value to the business.
- Promote Internal Audit as a competent and trusted partner and live the company values.
- Excellent and effective communication skills are essential, as well as the ability to listen and a talent for seeing the auditee's perspective.
- Ability to deal with all types of personalities and experience in managing escalation processes after delivering inconvenient decisions.
- Take responsibility for the performance of audit plans in areas of assigned responsibility and ad-hoc engagements.
- Lead and execute complex audit assignments (IT and integrated audits)
- Define risk-based audit areas and processes, workflows, control systems, infrastructure and networks while ensuring alignment with the
- Analyze audit results, determine deficiencies and vulnerabilities to be remedied, develop proposals for solutions and lead closing meetings.
- Ensure progress as planned and in line with applicable standards.
- Support and drive continuous improvement of the IT audit function.
- Comply with audit policies and respective standards (e.g., independence, integrity, confidentiality, truth and fairness, security
- Ensure audit recommendations are implemented adequately by our internal clients, so that the findings can be closed in a timely manner.
- Support the update of audit methodologies, initiate improvements of workflows, processes, security controls and promote best practice
- Be a part of the center of excellence for integrated audits, business application controls, system development methodologies, Information
- Identify emerging risks and new business processes for inclusion in the annual Internal Audit plan.
- 3 plus years professional experience in internal/external IT audit, IT consulting or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technologies (IT), Accounting Information Systems (AIS), Business Informatics (BI), Information
- Professional certification (e.g., CA, CPA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, or in COBIT, ITIL) is preferred.
- Strong and broad IT skills (operating system, database, networks, programming, software deployment, web technology, cloud computing,
- Strong intellectual and analytical skills and a solid understanding of processes, structures and the regulatory environment
- Team spirit, self-motivation and a proactive and committed working style, as well as the ability to interact in a global work environment
- Travel requirement is