Systems & Process Assurance Manager
POSITION TITLE: Systems & Process Assurance Manager
SPECIFICATION NUMBER: 9608CRI
LOCATION: Los Angeles, California
COMPENSATION: $140K - $170K Base
COMPANY:
Our client is an International Financial Services Firm.
Overview:
Our client’s practice collaborates with their clients, so that the financial information they report to the investing public and other stakeholders is clear and reliable. When they fulfill their role as professionals, by standing firm on quality and integrity, they have a direct impact on how well the world's capital market system functions.
The highly trained and educated teams go inside companies, and get to know those businesses. They ask questions, test assumptions, and provide assurance that the companies are reporting information on which investors and others can rely. Every assignment is an exciting opportunity to learn, to grow and to understand how businesses operate from all levels and perspectives.
Our Client’s professionals are constantly challenged to learn more in order to provide their clients with the highest quality services. This learning takes place through interaction on the job with colleagues and clients, formal training programs, and the insights provided by mentors and coaches. Our client is all about our people, encouraging high performance and quality.
Job Description:
As a member of the Systems and Process Assurance team, you will provide services related to controls around the financial reporting process, including business process and IT management controls. Our client’s team members provide multiple services:
- Financial and operation applications controls reviews
- Business process controls reviews
- Database security controls reviews
- IT general controls reviews
- Third party assurance and other opinion services
- Sarbanes-Oxley readiness and controls optimization services
- Pre- and post-implementation assurance reviews
- Project assurance services
- IT security & governance reviews
Key issues our client helps their clients address are:
- Assisting their clients to optimize their risk and internal control activities, including SOX readiness/optimization activities
- Ensuring IT is aligned to organizational strategy, responsive to a changing business climate, with clearly defined policies and procedures
- Enhancing the process of developing robust controls around pre- and post-implementation system reviews through a clearly defined project management methodology
- Performing third party and other opinion-level services in response to service organization requests from customers for information about internal controls
- They assist ERP clients to optimize and sustain a "real-time" controls environment at an enterprise level
Our Client’s Banking and Capital Markets clients demand a deep knowledge of their industry and business processes, the Banking Industry practice is organized within our Financial Services practice to fully leverage our global team of over 33,000 professionals who serve virtually every segment of the industry: consumer/retail banking, commercial banking, wholesale banking, mortgage banking, securitization, capital markets, insurance, investment management, broker/dealer and real estate. As these sectors continue to converge and consolidate, our integrated knowledge will enable us to design and implement cost-effective, multidisciplinary solutions to meet the challenges and opportunities facing our clients.
Our client’s professionals have focused skills in key areas to effectively serve our clients with their most critical challenges, including:
- Anti-money laundering
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- Risk management
- Securitizations
- Regulatory
Position / Program Requirements:
Knowledge Preferred:
Thorough knowledge of security and control for some of the following technologies and/or enterprise applications: UNIX, Windows, NT, Mainframe, AS400, SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Oracle Financial databases, networks etc. and thorough knowledge of Controls and Controls Standards (Sarbanes Oxley, COSO, COBIT) and testing strategies. Thorough knowledge of industry products (e.g., equities, options, futures, loans, bonds) and processes (e.g., pre and post-trade processing, mortgage processing) in banking and capital markets sectors.
Thorough knowledge of information technology general controls concepts in the areas of systems development, change management, computer operations and access to programs and data and experience identifying and assessing business process controls and linkage to IT systems.
CPA or CISA required
Skills Preferred:
Considerable experience appropriately applying internal control principles and business/technical knowledge including Application Controls and IT General Controls; financial reporting concepts; considerable working experience applying professional skepticism skills
Considerable experience as a team leader: supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust and seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback
Minimum Years of Experience Necessary:
8
Education:
Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:
BA or BS in Accounting or Management Information Systems or business related field (provided that the candidate has demonstrated the required minimum number of hours for CPA and/or CISA licensure per respective state regulations)
CPA or CISA
Additional Information:
Position will focus on Financial Services industry.
Travel: 41% - 60%
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