Technology Auditor

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 into 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. As a Technology Auditor, you will be involved in providing assurance on the data integrity and quality, applications stability and system operations, etc., used for the purposes of portfolio construction and management, deal workflows, investment research flows, reporting for internal and regulatory purposes, along with other general technology controls.

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 into 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.

As a Technology Auditor, you will be involved in providing assurance on the data integrity and quality, applications stability and system operations, etc., used for the purposes of portfolio construction and management, deal workflows, investment research flows, reporting for internal and regulatory purposes, along with other general technology controls.

Responsibilities:

• For each assigned review, you will report to an experienced project manager.
• Assist/Lead the risk assessment, scoping and planning of a review.
• Assist/Lead in executing the review.
• Analyse the design of controls around the underlying system architecture in the context of information technology controls and their impact on the business.
• Analyse the business and technology processes to evaluate the design and effectiveness of the relevant technology controls by designing and executing tests to validate identified system control features, which may require data analysis, code inspection and re-performance of system processes.
• Document the results of the test steps executed within the IA automated document project repository as per the departmental guidelines.
• Assist/Lead in vetting audit observations.
• Assist/Lead in tracking, monitoring and recording remediation of risks identified in reviews.

Requirements:

• BE/B Tech/MCA/MBA in Systems/MSc or equivalent University degrees in technology.
• Atleast 4+years of experience in technology audit, focusing on Financial Services Technology audit.
• Technology audit skills, including an understanding of: System architecture, with high level understanding of databases, operating systems and messaging.
• Prior experience in testing automated IT application controls.
• System Development / Programming Languages / Databases, System Architecture (Distributed/Messaging).
• Operating Systems and Data analysis skills (SQL, ACL, or similar tools).
• Application security principles.
• System development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Management, monitoring and operations of technology (backups, change management, system monitoring, incident/problem management).
• Business continuity planning, disaster recovery design, and implementation.
• Security within the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to review/develop code (OO languages like Java, C#, C++).
• Experience in managing audit engagements or technology projects.
• Relevant Certification or industry accreditation (CISA, CISSP, etc).
• Ability to work effectively across a large global audit team, understanding the team's role in the overall strategy of the firm.
• Strong Written and verbal communication skills are a must; strong interpersonal skills are essential.
• The job requires frequent interaction with technology management.
• Must be able to multitask while managing both time and workload.