Senior IT Auditor

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The mission of Visa’s Internal Audit team is to enhance and protect Visa’s organizational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice and insight on the state of Visa’s risk and control environment. The Senior IT Auditor will work under the supervision of an IT Audit Manager or IT Audit Senior Manager to execute multiple aspects of the Internal Audit annual plan. 

Responsibilities include:

• Execute audit fieldwork including testing the design and operating effectiveness of controls.   

• Serve as a key contact with client management, explaining the audit process and scope, keeping management apprised of audit progress and issues, and effectively delivering audit results to all levels of management. 

• Assist in the execution of Internal Audit innovation activities such as those around advanced data analytics, audit process automation and continuous auditing.

• Stay abreast of company business strategies, IT industry technology advances and the risk profile of assigned business areas to ensure relevancy of audit approach.

Essential Functions

• Assist audit management in preparation for engagement risk assessment, planning and audit scope development.

• Participate in developing the audit work program, in consultation with audit management, for efficient and effective testing of key controls.

• Execute specific areas of an audit project under the supervision of the audit management, performing audit work using Visa’s standard audit methodology to evaluate risk, determine control objectives, and verify the extent to which client techniques meet objectives.

• Document test results in work papers ready for audit management review.

• Inform audit management of project status and results.

• Interact with client management to assess audit findings including control weaknesses with an appropriate degree of professional skepticism. Keep audit management informed of audit findings, and assist business partners with the development of Management Action Plans to mitigate weaknesses, and evaluate adequacy of management’s response. Where appropriate, test corrective actions taken.

• Maintain business relationships with appropriate levels of client management to ensure that audit management is aware of changes in business activities and objectives and, if necessary, an audit response is developed.

• Demonstrate good written and oral communication skills to the appropriate levels of Visa and audit management during the audit process.

• Demonstrate understanding of Visa’s and Internal Audit’s strategic vision, be a self-starter, and responsible for actions promoting this strategic vision.

• Interact with audit project team members in working towards departmental goals.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an
Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant
experience with a PhD in computer science, management information systems, or in STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math).
• 3-6 years of technical experience in one of more of the following domains: information security,
distributed operating