Senior Analyst – IT System Risk & Controls

ROLE:                                Senior Analyst – IT System Risk & Controls

LOCATION:                      Dublin or London

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Barden are delighted to have been asked to act on behalf of our client to support the appointment of a permanent Senior Analyst – IT System Risk & Controls to their Global Finance transformation programme. This role will sit within the IT Controls ICFR transformation team in Flutter.

The Systems Risk & Control team’s overall role is to facilitate a strong controls environment across the Finance Technology tech stack.  This is achieved through four separate workstreams to ultimately facilitate ongoing controls adherence to SOX standards, along with other standards such as ISO27001. They include:

1. Supporting the Finance Tech teams through audit,
2. Enabling a controls assurance function for the teams
3. Implementing governance standards and driving deficiency remediations
4. Leading IT controls transformation projects.

 ABOUT THE ROLE:

In this role you will work alongside the various Finance Technology teams, Internal Controls Assurance team and external auditors to both facilitate and enable efficient and streamlined audit activities across the Finance Tech stack. You will also work alongside the Controls Transformation team to apply learnings and processes to new systems.

• Collaborate with Internal Control Teams, ICFR Transformation Team and various System Owners to improve audit process and bring efficiencies where possible.
• Working as part of the team work across IT controls implementation, assurance, remediation and transformation.
• Work with Control Owners to support them in preparing for audit activities, including preparing for walkthroughs.
• Ensure efficient audit process for Finance Technology stack including ensuring SLAs are met and escalating where needed.
• Own the end-to-end preparation and coordination of ITGC and ITAC audit walkthroughs, ensuring documentation is accurate, timely, and meets auditor expectations.
• Assist in responding to and managing audit queries on behalf of control owners, helping to reduce audit burden and mitigate the risk of control observations.
• Identify, where possible, efficiencies, streamlining, and standardisation that can be implemented, leveraging a strong understanding of IT risk and control design.
• Work with fellow team members on audit documentation and efficiencies.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

Experience and Qualifications:

• Strong audit experience in enterprise environments.
• Internal Controls or IT audit experience with knowledge of IT Audit SOX controls is a must.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to support control owners and engage effectively with internal and external auditors.
• Understanding of IT General Controls (ITGCs) including proper design and implementation, monitoring, and reporting any assurance issues is a must.
• Understanding of IT Automated Controls (ITACs) is a nice to have.
• Demonstrated experience preparing and leading ITGC and ITAC audit walkthroughs is highly desirable.
• Previous audit experience within a similar industry is advantageous.
• Ability to translate technical IT risk issues into business language and actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of and experience in controls of Oracle products (Oracle EBS, EPM, ODI and Fusion) is a nice to have.
• Organisation and ability to prioritise is essential. There will be a lot of moving pieces of work due to the systems in scope.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• Ability to build positive working relationships within the business.
• Critical thinker that can apply and implement existing GRC framework.

Desirable Personal Attributes & Competencies:

• Strong communicator and a great team player
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environment, and able to prioritise work.
• Critical thinker that can think outside of the box, and question processes seeing gaps and potential for improvement.
• Highly self-motivated self-starter that is able to work on own initiative; but knows when to ask for help.
• Strong analytical and technical skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to develop and establish strong positive working relationships with the business.
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to delivering quality results.
• Ability to influence change at all levels of management.
• Ability to communicate (both written and verbal) to all levels of management and write meaningful reports and presentations.