Operational/Internal Auditor

at Spectraforce Technologies Inc. in ChicagoChicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Role: Operational/Internal Auditor
Duration: 6+ Months (possible extension)
Work Location: Tempe, AZ or Chicago, IL

The SOC Governance team is a small but highly performing team at the client, responsible for the governance around the suite of our SOC reports. The team does not perform testing.

The team works with business and technology owners throughout the organization to ensure their processes and controls are reflected accurately within each report and coordinates with external auditors and internal testing teams responsible for testing the controls. The team consults control owners on responses to new requirements that impact their controls and helps ensure each report is fit for purpose. The team also executes SOC Governance activities that support the program, such as administering control assertions, responding to client questions, and maintaining intranet sites.

The team is currently also working on several program productivity initiatives, which include a systems implementation requiring data standardization, process optimization, and stakeholder training.

This individual contributor role within the team is balanced between two high-level priorities:
1. Help implement Technology/Productivity Initiatives
2. Manage assigned SOC reports (including report content and project management)

Primary Responsibilities
Technology/Productivity Initiatives
Assist with the implementation of WDesk
Standardize data across reports and systems used within program
Optimize and refine program processes based on new technology and data approach
Prepare file scrubs, implementation data, etc. and perform UAT around imports and updates as needed
Work with stakeholders to adopt new systems/processes

 Report Content
Work with stakeholders/auditors to strengthen target areas of ICFR content, such as articulating data flows within processes, ensuring completeness and accuracy of data used in controls / process flows
Ensure controls align to attributes in report objectives, and work with business owners to align if necessary
Work with business owners to ensure all supporting applications, control contacts, evidence, testing and population notes, and other control testing attributes are adequately identified and documented
Evaluate and document complex and high risk areas throughout the Corporation
Ensure reports and control records are updated in appropriate systems, etc.
Enable timely process and control walkthroughs with business owners and external auditors
Evaluate and respond to testing comments from external and internal control testers

 Report Project Management
Serve as governance lead by providing proactive and accountable end-to-end project management, update, and coordination for assigned reports. Will need ability to jump in mid-process depending on joining date:
Planning and timeline
Update of documentation with business/technology owners
Facilitate process and control walkthroughs
Assertion of controls
Facilitation of control testing, including triage and resolution of testing escalations and exceptions
Exception investigation, analysis, and remediation tracking/closeout
Communicate status to various stakeholders
Off-cycle updates and communications

 You:
Have applicable experience with controls, narratives, stakeholder management, and exception analysis
Are proactive, accountable, and engaged
Apply critical thinking to responsibilities
Ensure execution of critical deadlines
Act with urgency when completing responsibilities and to facilitate/resolve testing escalations and exceptions
Can carry out a variety of activities that are large in scope, cross-functional and technically difficult
Apply analytical skills to program and/or control data, evaluate impact, and articulate conclusions
Manage or escalate competing priorities to ensure critical deadlines and initiatives are met

SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.