Description
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.
- Your Impact
As part of the third line of defence, you will be involved in independently assessing the firm’s overall control environment, and communicating the results to the firm’s local and global management the effectiveness of the firm’s controls that mitigate current and emerging risks, and monitoring the management’s implementation of control measures. In doing so, you are supporting the provision of independent, objective and timely assurance around the firm’s internal control structure, and supporting the Audit Committee, the Board of Directors and Risk Committee in fulfilling their oversight responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
For each assigned audit project, you will:
- report to an experienced Project Manager.
- assist in scoping and planning of audits;
- play a role in audit execution focusing on the review of Technology processes and analysing the risks involved and assessing the design and operating effectiveness of the controls implemented to mitigate the risk;.
- be responsible for documenting the assessments and test steps conducted within the IA automated document project repository as per the departmental guidelines, and; monitor and follow up with management on the resolution of the open audit findings.
- BE/B Tech/MCA/MBA in Systems/MSc or equivalent University degree in Information Technology
- At least 1 year of experience as a technology auditor covering IT application and general controls, application development, SQA, information security, technology consulting or other relevant industry experience;
- Understanding of software development concepts and system architecture, databases, operating systems and messaging; Proficiency in data analysis using Excel or SQL;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills;
- Must be able to multitask while managing both time and work load;
- Must be highly motivated with strong analytical skills, willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly;
Team-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.