IT Infrastructure Audit Associate

Company Overview

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group headquartered in Tokyo, with a 400‑year history. It offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.

SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. The group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.,

SMBC Nikko Securities America, SMBC Capital Markets, SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, SMBC Leasing and Finance, Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

SMBC is seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure Audit professional with a minimum of 3‑5 years’ experience in the banking and technology industry to conduct audit coverage for the firm’s IT infrastructure in the Americas Division.

Coverage includes key IT infrastructure such as operating systems, databases, virtualization, middleware, unified communications, web application infrastructure, IT Governance, Change Management, Remote Access, Incident and Problem Management, Cloud, and more.

The Audit professional will report to the IT Infrastructure Team Head and be responsible for conducting regular IT application audits, ensuring work is performed in accordance with IIA standards and Internal Audit Department policies and procedures, supporting issue validation activities, partnering with other members, and supporting the IT Infrastructure Team Head in the execution of their duties.

Additional responsibilities include helping IAD Management identify coverage areas for planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of an internal audit program covering technology‑related areas across the Americas Division, conducting regular continuous monitoring activities, and supporting audit, regulatory, and self‑identified activities to confirm closure or recommend additional actions.

• Conduct regular audits of IT infrastructure related areas assessing adherence to firm and regulatory requirements and assessing design, operating effectiveness and sustainability of associated controls.
• Create audit issues and reports that clearly articulate results and conclusions for review with senior audit management and auditees.
• Challenge ongoing coverage of IT infrastructure work and present ideas for improvement.
• Facilitate risk issue tracking to promote timely remediation.
• Perform issue assurance work for audit, regulatory, and self‑identified initiatives to confirm closure or recommend additional actions.
• Collaborate with colleagues and auditees to identify risk concerns and agree on reasonable solutions.
• Forge strong partnerships with colleagues in other IT application and control functions (including legal, compliance, data security, and risk management) to promote front‑to‑back collaboration across risk assessment and findings remediation.
• Partner with audit colleagues in other business verticals and/or geographies to share best practices and drive greater consistency; seek opportunities to engage with stakeholders beyond formal audit periods.
• Conduct regular Continuous Monitoring activities and auditable entity updates.

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