Internal Audit--Associate- Core & Cybersecurity Engineering Associate

Internal Audit – Core Engineering, Associate

Internal Audit, Technology Auditor-Investment Banking, Associate  Dallas, TX, United States

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals.

In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. We’re looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into the firm’s operations and control processes.

Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrate strong risk and control mindsets, analytical, exercise professional skepticism and are able to challenge and discuss effectively with management on risks and control measures. We look for individuals who enjoy learning about audit, businesses and functions, have innovative and creative mindsets to adopt analytical techniques to enhance audit techniques, building relationships and are able to evolve and thrive in teamwork and in a fast-paced global environment.

• Communicates and reports on the effectiveness of the firm’s governance, risk management and controls that mitigate current and evolving risk
• Raise awareness of control risk
• Assesses the firm’s control culture and conduct risks
• Monitors management’s implementation of control measures

Goldman Sachs Internal Audit comprises individuals from diverse backgrounds including chartered accountants, developers, risk management professionals, cybersecurity professionals, and data scientists. We are organized into global teams comprising business and technology auditors to cover all the firm’s businesses and functions, including securities, investment banking, consumer and investment management, risk management, finance, cyber-security and technology risk, and engineering.

You will play a vital role in the scoping and planning of the audits, deploy audit and analytical procedures and techniques to assess the design and operating effectiveness of the controls to mitigate the risks, and discuss the results with the firm’s local and global management. In addition, you will also monitor and follow up with management on the resolution of open audit findings.

• 3-8 years of experience as a technology auditor, leading audits covering IT application and general controls
• Understanding of software development and system architecture
• High level understanding of databases, operating systems and messaging
• Proficiency in Excel and SQL
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Site reliability engineering and runtime operational tools (agent based technologies) and processes (change and incident management, job/batch management)
• Linux and Windows operating systems: security, configuration, and management
• Database design, setup and administration (DBA) experience with Sybase, Oracle, or UDB
• Big data systems:
  Hadoop, Snowflake, No
  
  SQL, Hbase, HDFS, Map Reduce
• Web infrastructure technologies, security and design
• Systems development/SDLC tools and processes (SVN/CVS, build, software testing, configuration and deployment)
• Email, messaging and collaboration systems (Exchange, Sharepoint, instant messaging)
• Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery design and implementation
• Relevant technology standards and regulations – ISO 27001, FFIEC IT handbooks, COBIT, ITIL, NIST, and FedRAMP
• Data and Log Analysis (using SQL and Splunk) and visualization (using Spotfire, Tableau, Qlik View or other) would be useful but not required
• Ability to review code (Java, C#, C++, Python, VBA macros etc.)
• Experience with Data Analytics tools and techniques

Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., CISA, CISSP, CISM, CFA, FRM, etc.)

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location, and financial wellness services. Health services, fitness, child care and family care benefits are also available.

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