Technology Risk Role - Financial Services

Job Description

Your key responsibilities

- Determine that the work delivered is of high quality.

- Anticipate and identify engagement related risks and escalate issues as appropriate.

- Actively establish & strengthen client (functional heads & key influencers) and internal relationships.

- Assist seniors & managers in developing new methodologies and internal initiatives.

- Create a positive learning culture, coaches, counsels and develops junior team members.

- Identify & escalate potential business opportunities for the firm on existing client engagements

- Execution on client engagements - Ensure quality delivery as per client requirements.

- Review of working papers & client folders. Suggest ideas on improving engagement productivity and identify opportunities for improving client service.

- Identify areas requiring improvement in the client's business processes to enable preparation of recommendations.

- Identify & internally escalate and potential red flags related to the engagement.

- Demonstrate industry expertise (detailed understanding of the industry, trends, issues/challenges and leading practices).

- Preparation of reports/deliverables/status updates/audit committee presentations.

- Demonstrate ability of multi-task and manage multiple projects as directed by the managers.

- Handling data analytics

- Ensure compliance with engagement plans and internal quality & risk management procedures.

- Demonstrate an application & solution-based approach to problem solving technique.

- Manage the engagement budgets and support superiors in developing marketing collaterals, business proposals and new solution / methodology development.

- Develop strong working relationships with client (process owner/functional heads).

- Attention to detail and mentor young interns and analysts within the practice.

- Contribute to knowledge management sessions within the practice.

- Identify and escalate potential business opportunities for the firm on existing client

Technical qualifications

- Expertise in Technology Risk and cyber domains

- Strong technical knowledge in the areas of application, network, cyber, data and cloud security.

- Strong knowledge of IT controls, ITGCs, SOX controls testing

- Strong knowledge in IT Service Management

- Strong knowledge in leading standards and frameworks such as COBIT, ISO standards, ITIL, COSO, and regulations like GDPR

- Experience with enterprise risk management methods

- Experience in risk and control assessments in emerging technologies like Cloud computing, Blockchain, AI/ ML

- Experience conducting extensive IT audits

- Ability to understand and correlate the risk data from various sources and effectively use it to monitor/showcase risk to the firm

- Experience in executive level risk reporting and visualization

Optional Technical skill

- Technical and Data analytics knowledge

- Understanding the core concepts of data quality how to measure and improve

- Ability to analyse data for data quality gaps

- Experience in application development will be given an added weightage

- Experience delivering or supporting information systems using extract, translate, load (ETL) and publishing methods

- Knowledge of programming language like Python will be a good addition

- Hands-on experience developing good presentations for client and internal requirements

Skills and attributes for success

- A recognized university degree in business, information technology, computer engineering, or other relevant discipline

- Minimum of 4 years of work experience in IT audit or IT risk advisory for a public accounting firm, a professional services firm, or within industry and at least 2 years of experience working on application development or data analytics

- Relevant consulting or industry experience, preferably in a professional services environment or MNC

- Project management skills, and able to manage concurrent engagements as a Team Lead

- Demonstrated integrity within a professional environment



- Strong application development and analytics background CISA, CISSP, CISM, CIPP, CGEIT certification or related professional qualification




Ideally, you'll also have

- CISA, CISSP, CISM, CIPP, CGEIT certification or related professional qualification

- Experience of coaching and developing junior team member

- Strong communication skills

- Ability to build and develop relationships

- Commitment to delivering excellence in client service that will stand you apart

- Strong application development and analytics background




Interested candidate forward profile or else call on 7208280887/7208835286