Senior Auditor – CIO

Senior Auditor – CIO

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At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever‑growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

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Job Description

The Corporate Audit Services (CAS) Senior Auditor is primarily responsible for assisting in completing audit engagement assignments with minimal supervision from audit team management. The Senior Auditor is expected to be familiar with information technology risk, application controls, emerging technologies, digital transformation, and business processes. This position supports the Digital, Technology, Information Security and Operations Services team in CAS, with a focus on the Technology Chief Information Office (CIO).

The Technology Services (CIO) Audit team provides global audit coverage for multiple technology organizations within U.S. Bank and is responsible for auditing the core Technology processes (e.g., application functionality testing, application development, change management, vendor management, interface controls, logical access controls, input/processing/output controls, and business continuity), and related risks and controls within Technology Services.

The CIO collaborates with business partners (Corporate Functions and Operations, Consumer and Business Banking, Wealth Management, and Investment Services, Corporate and Commercial Banking, and Payment Services) to deliver digital capabilities to the market. This team also drives the transformation of core systems for customers and employees and is accountable for strengthening enterprise architecture, modernizing, and supporting the systems.

Duties

• Work with limited oversight to support execution of business line integrated audit engagements and other projects in a contributor or lead role depending on complexity and meets CAS Policies, Standards and Guidelines.
• Understand risk and risk management techniques, identify, and analyze business/IT processes, key risks, and controls.
• Involve in all phases of the audit lifecycle (planning, executing, and reporting) on a range of audit assignments.
• Draft issues including identifying root causes rather than symptoms of control weaknesses; assess the relevancy of issues as to potential exposures and their significance; and develop appropriate recommendations.
• Build strong professional relationships with peers, mid‑level management, and key stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as requested by CAS management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically more than five years of applicable experience.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• College or university degree from an accredited institution, preferably in a relevant field of study.
• Minimum 3+ years of professional experience in internal or external IT audit, preferably relevant to the financial industry.
• Knowledge and awareness of applicable laws, regulations, financial services, regulatory trends, emerging technologies that impact the business line (Corporate Functions and Operations).
• Execute internal audit activities (i.e., IT General Controls and IT Application Controls) within agreed timeframe at the direction of the audit leader, along with ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously with on‑time delivery of results and attention to detail.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools and techniques (i.e., SQL, Tableau, ACL) and decision‑making abilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Desire to obtain Professional Certifications (i.e., Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, audit software tools such as Team‑Mate (preferred).

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