IT Audit Senior Associate*

Job Description

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
  • Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
  • Pension
  • Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
  • DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

Why you'll love this job :

Being a member of the Internal Audit Team means you will be part of a diverse and collaborative team. The IT Senior Auditor role is predominantly focused on audit projects, participating in planning, driving fieldwork, and assisting with report clearance. The primary measure of success is identifying meaningful potential issues about the design and effectiveness of controls and creating reliable documentation to support conclusions. The IT Senior Auditor must manage a number of auditee relationships, be a good team player, and take accountability for their personal growth and professional development.

Your Primary Responsibilities:
  • Strategic Control Impact - Identifies meaningful issues in which controls are not accurately designed or are not operating optimally. Assesses the risk and control environment for processes within coverage areas. Work closely with auditees to verify timely progress and completion of agreed upon issue closure, under the mentorship of a supervisor. Understands the financial services industry and risk and control environment for coverage areas and identifies new risks.
  • Audit Execution - Assists Audit Manager with the execution of audit planning, fieldwork, and reporting. Completes risk-focused fieldwork on time and within the allocated budget, advising the Audit Manager promptly of issues that arise or when budgets or timelines are at risk. Understands and performs root cause analysis for issues. Possesses and demonstrates a strong understanding of audit techniques.
  • Quality Process - Demonstrates a proven understanding of our policies, procedures, and documentation standards. Independently prepares work papers that fully comply with IAD policies and procedures. Participates in continuous improvement initiatives. Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Talents Needed for Success:
  • Minimum of 6 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
  • Certifications related to the candidate's coverage responsibilities are beneficial, but not required, such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
  • Previous job experience for IT Auditors can vary to meet the department's goal of having a team with diverse perspectives and work experiences.
  • Capable of identifying, assessing, and advising on risks for technology projects, applications, and IT general controls and completing IT audit tests (e.g., Organizational Change, Data Management, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, and Job Monitoring and Alerting), under the context of business objectives
  • Experience with auditing applications supporting risk management processes (e.g., VaR, Sybase) is a plus
  • Capability to read and write program languages (e.g., Python, Java, SQL) is a plus

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

Who We Are:

DTCC is the heart of the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations all over the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. In 2020, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $2.3 quadrillion.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

The Internal Audit Department's (IAD) mission is to deliver independent assessments of the organization's overall control environment and to promote proactive risk identification and mitigation.