Audit and Advisory Manager - IT

Trans Union is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organizations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

What You'll Bring:

Audit and Advisory Manager – IT

We are looking for an experienced IT professional to join our UK Audit and Advisory team.

This position will report directly to the Global Audit & Advisory (GAA) Director in the UK and will work closely with other UK & EU GAA Team Associates on key IT audit projects, advisory work and initiatives. There will also be an opportunity to work closely with our GAA colleagues around the globe. The successful candidate will need to work closely with IT operations, programs / projects, security and data teams across the organization to understand and identify risks.

They will need to be comfortable in engaging stakeholders at all levels to ensure that audit and advisory projects add value to the business and lead to an efficient and effective control environment. This “hands on” role also has high visibility to senior management and will involve operating in a complex and transforming IT environment.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Assisting with risk assessment and the development of a flexible annual IT audit and advisory plan.
• Working closely with IT leadership and stakeholders across the business. Developing strong, professional and independent relationships and a comprehensive understanding of the IT risk landscape, current initiatives, plans and programs. This includes attending IT monitoring forums and steering committees.
• Delivering risk-based internal audit projects over IT operations, general controls and security, including assessing the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls and testing compliance with policy, laws and regulations. Specific responsibilities will include:
• Clearly defining the objective and scope of each review, employing critical thinking and appropriate testing methodologies. Communication and reporting at the conclusion of each audit, obtaining agreement on root cause of issues and management action plans.
• Delivering advisory / consultancy reviews and health checks over key areas of IT strategy, transformation, system implementations and cloud arrangements. Specific responsibilities will include:
• Interviewing IT teams, reviewing documentation, challenging the progress of projects / programs, work streams, risks and controls, including readiness for key milestones or stage gate decisions. Producing advisory reports with insights, industry comparisons and recommendations on improvements to controls and processes.
• Supporting the GAA Director in distilling complex and technical messages and observations to key IT stakeholders and executive members. Preparing materials for the quarterly Audit & Risk Committee and other key forums.
• Assisting with the organization’s compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements in IT control areas.
• Supporting with GAA strategic initiatives to continuously improve the effectiveness and value of the function, including tools and techniques, innovation and upskilling the wider team in respect of IT related areas.
• Overseeing the work of other GAA team members as necessary and supporting the career development goals of the team by providing regular feedback, coaching, and development opportunities.
• Either direct experience of working in, or the delivery of audit / assurance over, IT operations and controls, including IT general controls, cloud, product and software development life cycles, change, security, performance and data.
• Either direct experience of working on, or the delivery of audit / assurance over, IT system or platform implementations and transformation, including governance structures, scope, planning, benefits realization, risk management, cost monitoring, third party management, change control and stakeholder management.
• Accreditation or qualifications in project management methodologies (e.g. Prince2 or Agile approaches) would be preferable.
• Cloud Computing related experience and…