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As the third line of defense, Internal Audit’s mission is to independently assess the firm’s internal control structure, including the firm’s governance processes and controls, and risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks, raise awareness of control risk and monitor the implementation of management’s control measures. In doing so, internal Audit: . Communicates and reports on the effectiveness of the firm’s governance, risk management and controls that mitigate current and evolving risk . Raise awareness of control risk . Assesses the firm’s control culture and conduct risks; and . Monitors management’s implementation of control measures Goldman Sachs Internal Audit comprises individuals from diverse backgrounds including chartered accountants, developers, risk management professionals, cybersecurity professionals, and data scientists. We are organized into global teams comprising business and technology auditors to cover all the firm’s businesses and functions, including securities, investment banking, consumer and investment management, risk management, finance, cyber-security and technology risk, and engineering. Investment Management covers the firm's Private Wealth Management, Asset Management businesses. Investment Banking covers the firm's investment banking activities and Global Investment Research operations.

As a Technology Auditor, you will be involved to provide 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.

Your Impact:

As part of the third line of defense, you will be involved in independently assessing the firm’s overall control environment, and communicating the results to the firm’s local and global management the effectiveness of the firm’s controls that mitigate current and emerging risks, and monitoring the management’s implementation of control measures. In doing so, you are supporting the provision of independent, objective and timely assurance around the firm’s internal control structure, and supporting the Audit Committee, the Board of Directors and Risk Committee in fulfilling their oversight responsibilities.

Responsibilities

For each assigned review you will report to an experienced project manager. You will be expected to:

• Assist/Lead the risk assessment, scoping and planning of a review.
• Assist/Lead in executing the review. Specifically focusing on the following:
• Analyze the design of controls around the underlying system architecture in the context of information technology controls and its impact on the business.
• Analyze 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.

Basic Qualifications

• BE/B Tech/MCA/MBA in Systems/MSc or equivalent University degrees in technology
• Atleast 8+ 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 of 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 and 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 a must; strong interpersonal skills essential. Job requires frequent interaction with technology management
• Must be able to multitask while managing both time and work load