Department Summary
The Internal Controls and Compliance Department is responsible for maintaining guidelines and standards for compliance across a number of regulatory requirements. The IT Audit and Controls (ITAC) team provides specific and comprehensive compliance for all applicable internal IT infrastructure and financial business systems that are relied upon for financial reporting. Further, this team is responsible for coordinating with external auditors to ensure regulatory requirements are being met.
Job Description/Responsibilities
In this role, the primary task is to audit and determine comprehensive compliance for all applicable internal IT infrastructure and financial business systems that are relied upon for financial reporting. Audits will be in the pursuit of auditing and enforcing compliance to regulatory requirements. Further, the IT Auditor is responsible for coordinating with external auditors to ensure regulatory requirements are being met.
The IT Auditor is responsible for providing insight, guidance, and support to maintain and/or update audit processes through the understanding of technical systems and processes within a regulated environment. As such, a high degree of judgment, ability to work within undefined "gray areas," evaluate risks, and provide sound advice are critical components of an effective IT Auditor.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Maintain guidelines and standards for IT compliance, compliance documentation, and compliance testing
- Be a source of expertise for IT controls and procedure definition, training, auditing, guidance and corrective action programs
- Monitor regulatory and industry trends with regard to auditing of infrastructure, business applications and related processes
- Maintain and store compliance documentation and evidence
- Support the periodic testing of business system application functionality
- Maintain Internal Control SOX Portal data
- Consult as required to the efficacy of proposed IT controls design
- Coordinate control activities with Internal Controls Department
- Regularly interface and coordinate with the external auditors
- Network with other Regulatory Compliance professionals through active participation in professional societies such as the ISACA
- Identify, evaluate and monitor risk and business benefit to make appropriate decisions
- Maintain appropriate experience and training levels to conduct audit and assessment activities
Requirements/Qualification
- Bachelor*s degree preferably in an IT field such as Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or similar (an accounting degree is acceptable if accompanied by IT Audit experience)
- 4+ years applicable working experience, which should include 2+ years of industry, regulatory, public accounting, or information technology experience
- Must include experience with IT controls * computer systems validation knowledge and experience working in a qualified/validated environment (financial / audit experience only is insufficient)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification is recommended or willingness to pursue during employment
- Understanding of regulations/guidelines concerning Sarbanes Oxley controls along with a familiarity with industry guidance such as COBIT is required
- Ability to advocate for controls processes
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of associates in the organization
- Strong negotiation skills with an ability to scrutinize decisions to ensure best practices and execution of critical processes and compliance efforts
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal error and guidance
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and relationship building with internal and external teams
Experience with the following will set you apart from others:
- Experience with a SAP and auditing SAP
- Knowledge/experience in operations environment
- Master*s degree in IT or Accounting field
- Strong ability to understand and explain issues to non-technical staff
- Previous experiencing in designing controls
This position is located in Jackson, MI
Essential Functions
Works closely with department managers, co-workers, and peers to define and analyze business and operational problems, process improvement opportunities and requirements; analyzes operational and business mandates and legal requirements; identifies and analyzes complex, ambiguous and/or conflicting business process issues; advises department leaders on technology related projects; explains technology and process options and assists managers in analysis and decision making; analyzes management information needs and recommends data and reporting processes; coordinates the development of department priorities and works within IT to align initiatives to these priorities; facilitates user meetings and joint development sessions. Develops and refines business models and relationship diagrams; evaluates methods of improving efficiency and cost effectiveness of business, technical and operational processes; works with users to reengineer work processes; analyzes functional business requirements and translates user expectations into detailed business requirements, specifications and success criteria; works with Information Systems to develop conceptual proposals for business process automation initiatives; recommends work process and/or operational changes to complement system functionalities; serves as an advocate for department needs with IT; stays abreast of developments in departmental processes to anticipate emerging technology needs. Participates in the development of statements of work for RFPs/RFIs; participates in evaluating vendor applications and solutions; coordinates department review of vendor deliverables for accuracy and completeness, ensuring that department needs and requirements have been met. Develops significant application/hardware solutions to problems and addresses change request issues that require assignment of resources. Analyzes and troubleshoots complex applications problems and errors; takes action or communicates solutions to problems; answers technical questions and provides guidance to users on system functionalities and methods for correcting problems. Develops training materials and handouts; conducts user applications training classes and one-on-one training sessions; develops and maintains user documentation. Designs and generates custom reports and user-defined cabinets to meet user needs; uses reporting tools to extract user-required data. Plans and coordinates the deployment of new technologies for client solutions; coordinates user acceptance testing and the resolution of problems identified.
Hours and Travel
Meet travel requirements of the position. Work a flexible schedule, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays and overtime.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee must lift and move up to twenty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environme