IT Audit Manager

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At Allianz Asset Management we act with integrity, take ownership and responsibility and care for employee wellbeing. Would you like to be a part of the financial and governance holding for Allianz Group's asset management business? Then, join us as an IT Audit Manager and become a valued member of our IT Internal Audit team based in Newport Beach, United States.

The IT Audit Manager, reporting to the Head of IT Audit, is a highly experienced senior specialist role with in-depth auditing experience in Digitalization and IT.

• Responsibility for risk-based planning of the annual audit plan and the risk assessments, and successful execution of the audit plan and ad-hoc engagements.
• Build-up and maintain relationships with the auditees and become a recognized partner to the business also on senior stakeholder level.
• Plan, lead, manage and supervise complex large-scale, cross regional and cross-functional audit assignments, supervise audit projects (IT and integrated audits), define risk-based audit areas (both IT and business), audit infrastructure and network, processes, and control systems, business transactions, as well as workflows with very limited supervision.
• Determine deficiencies and vulnerabilities to be remedied, analyze audit results, proposals for solutions, lead closing meetings and performing audit follow-up activities, including assessing the sufficiency and timeliness of remediation actions.
• Collaborate on departmental and inter-organizational projects.
• Ensure compliance with the audit policies and the respective standards (independence, integrity, confidentiality, truth and fairness, security, economy, system conformity).
• Support and review auditor’s work (audit preparation, interviews, tests, evidence gathering, report writing and validation preparation).
• Be a center of Excellence for IT Infrastructure & Network Management, Information Security, Cyber Security, and Public Cloud, but also IT General Controls, integrated audits, business application controls, system development methodologies, Business Continuity Management, and IT best practices.
• Mentoring and coaching of less experienced staff on complex topics. Plan and implement technical training and information sharing (team/peer).
• Driving consistent enhancement of methodology and practices of the audit function.

• Minimum 9 years professional experience in internal/external IT audit, or as IT consultant or equivalent.
• Master's or Bachelor's degree (or comprehensive experience) in Information Technologies, Business Informatics or equivalent.
• Professional certification e.g. CISA, CISSP, or in COBIT, ITIL is an advantage.
• Broad IT skills on IT infrastructure and information & cyber security (e.g. operating systems, databases, networks, public cloud, security related tools), and ideally also on web technology, IT governance, general IT controls, programming and software deployment.
• Broad understanding of regulatory requirements, especially DORA regulation with the aspects of ICT Risk Management, Digital Resilience, Incident Management and Third-Party Risk Management.
• Driving data analytics literacy globally based on broad experience in data analytics, including data cleansing and preparation, data analysis, data visualization, statistical data mining, or data science, as well as driving usage on Artificial Intelligence from an Internal Audit perspective.
• Working knowledge of core Office applications, especially Excel and PowerBI.
• Knowledge of any data analytics tools (e.g. Python, Team Mate Analytics, Idea) is considered an advantage.
• Experience in Asset Management or financial services, including financial industry products and services, securities processing, and related…