Digital Risk IT Controls Advisory - Financial Services - Senior

Location:

Mc Lean

Other locations:
Anywhere in Region

Requisition

Location:

McLean, Washington DC, Arlington, Baltimore

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit (“FSO”) that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic FSO team!

The opportunity

Join the leading Digital Risk, IT internal audit and SOX service provider to the financial services industry, providing industry-focused professionals with deep knowledge in internal audit and SOX approaches/methodologies and IT controls, regulatory, privacy and security skills.

Your key responsibilities

Everything you will be involved comes down to providing professional services to clients and helping ensure your teams do the same. Whether it is performing and managing IT internal audit outsource/co-sourced/transformation engagements, addressing client concerns over internal controls around security and/or privacy, performing IT SOX assessments and assisting with business development activities across financial services’ sectors, you will build strong relationships and become a trusted advisor to your clients while focusing on identification, rationalization, testing, and optimization of risks and controls.

Within EY’s FSO Digital Risk & Cyber practice, you will be working with client personnel and your team to assess the internal audit universe, plan and perform the risk assessment for internal audit, analyze and evaluate company’s complex IT systems, infrastructure, and risk issues, ensuring the execution of the audit plan and preparing audit reports to be shared with key stakeholders.

Some projects that you will be part of cover key topics such as agile methodologies and emerging risks such as generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud security, cyber security and resiliency, automation, internal control analysis and testing, controls transformation, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing, and specialized functional assessments to be in line with risk advisory.

Skills and attributes for success

• Providing guidance, participating in performing procedures focusing on complex, judgmental, and/or specialized issues, and applying deep knowledge in in IA and SOX approaches/methodologies and IT controls, regulatory, privacy, and security skills
• Collaborate with other members of the engagement team to plan the engagement and develop work programs and execution enablers, including approach, tasks, timelines, and budgets.
• Serving as a fieldwork leader by directing the daily progress of fieldwork, informing supervisors of engagement status and managing staff performance
• Using knowledge of the current IT environment and financial services industry IT trends to identify the engagement and client service issues and communicating this information to the engagement team and client management through written correspondence and verbal presentations.
• Maintaining relationships with client management, managing expectations around work products, timing, and deliverables billing
• Demonstrating a thorough understanding of end-to-end internal audit/SOX lifecycle, complex information systems and the client’s business/industry
• Demonstrating excellent project management skills, communication skills, inspiring…