IT Audit Manager
- Foster City, CA
- $168,397-199,300 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Enhance and protect Visa's organizational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice and insight on the state of Visa's risk and control environment.
- Participate in planning and audit scope development as well as project execution as a critical team member on complex technology-related assessments.
- Lead the execution of the assessment of specific technical areas of a project including testing the design and operating effectiveness of controls, supervising other team members and providing coaching where requested.
- Provide reports on the effectiveness of the business unit's internal control structure along with recommendations that improve the effectiveness, efficiency and economic value of a control or process.
- Assess audit findings / gaps including control weaknesses with an appropriate degree of professional skepticism, seeking to fully understand risks to the firm.
- Assist technology partners with the development of Management Action Plans to mitigate weaknesses, providing thought leadership on the appropriateness of the Plan.
- Evaluate the adequacy and timeliness of management's response and the corrective action taken on relevant weaknesses noted within audit reports.
- Provide control consulting services to management to assist in redesign efforts that improve the control environment.
- Maintain business relationships with appropriate levels of management to ensure that Audit is aware of changes in business activities and objectives, and a necessary Audit response is developed.
- Assist audit management with macro reporting by providing data relevant to technology audit findings.
- Assist in the execution of Internal Audit innovation activities such as those around advanced data analytics, audit process automation and continuous auditing.
- Identify and implement opportunities for increased automation across the program factoring in emerging regulations and proactive detection of risks.
- Stay abreast of company business strategies, IT industry technology advances and the risk profile of assigned business areas to ensure relevancy of audit approach.
- Assist in managing and strengthening the Internal Audit program by Facilitating the tracking, validation and closure of remediation plans pertaining to prior audit recommendations.
- Develop and maintain reporting dashboards, prepare departmental and audit committee reports, support departmental process improvement initiatives and assist with risk assessment, audit plan reporting, and resource staffing analysis.
- Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor potential metric deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
- Position reports to the Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.
- Domestic travel required 10-25% of the time.
- Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or related field followed by 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a related security assurance or compliance occupation.
- Alternatively, employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a related security assurance or compliance occupation.
- Position requires experience in the following skills:
- Audit management;
- Understanding and promoting internal audit strategy vision;
- Program management, including planning, organizing, pre-empting risks/blockers, and communicating with stakeholders to deliver successful programs or projects;
- Information security, distributed operating systems, databases, network technology, mobile payments, tokenized services, cloud-based and virtualized environments, IBM mainframe, or Hadoop;
- Evaluating system controls associated with complex business applications; and
- Working with security domains, including Network Security, Application Security, Data Security, Vulnerability Management, Client and Cloud Security.
- License/Certification: IT Audit certification or other related audit certification (e.g., CISA or CFE) required