Senior IT Internal Auditor

We want people who are passionate high performing team players who enjoy taking on new challenges and go the extra mile.

The Senior IT Internal Auditor will assist in executing DigitalOcean’s public company SOX program by evaluating the design and effectiveness of the company’s internal control environment. Additionally, this role will work alongside other team members to perform non-SOX operational audits and deliver aspects of the Revenue Assurance program, tasked with ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of customer invoicing.

The ideal candidate for this position will be someone who has relevant prior experience (such as IT Audit, IT SOX, Operational Auditing, and/or Revenue Assurance Auditing) and is comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced, technical environment. This position reports directly to the Senior Manager, IT Audit & Risk. We only hire the best to these teams, and your work will have an impact on the future success of this rapidly growing company.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Be part of the team, collaborating cross-functionally within the company to assist in executing the SOX program, specifically focused on ITGC (IT General Controls), ITAC (IT Application Controls), and KR (Key Reports) tests of design and effectiveness.
• Work collaboratively with the manager, other team members, and control owners on the design of internal controls and maintain the risk and control matrix within AuditBoard.
• Execute walkthroughs to validate the design of controls independently. 
• Perform periodic testing to assess the operating effectiveness of controls, including buildout of test plans and audit workpapers within AuditBoard.
• Prepare audit documentation request lists, coordinate with control owners, and track request status.
• Perform end to end process and/or system walkthroughs, where needed, build flows in flowchart format.
• Where needed, prepare control training materials to help educate those responsible for performing control activities
• As needed, review policies and/or provide recommendations to policy owners on enhancement opportunities.
• Provide guidance and support to internal stakeholders as they address control deficiencies or make significant process changes (e.g., implementation of new systems).
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with process owners and stakeholders in various departments effectively, to increase awareness of the importance of risk and controls, and the role of Internal Audit.
• Participate in non-SOX operational audits on non-financial operational processes and risk areas, including the development of the audit plan and risk assessment, audit report and data analytics using Google Data Studio, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, Metabase, or equivalent.
• Participate in the Revenue Assurance program, focused on auditing the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of invoicing, and identifying revenue leakage and optimization opportunities for review by leadership.
• Analyze company data to make recommendations on potential process improvements.
• Work closely with, and provide mentorship to, junior team members, and develop an effective strategy in utilizing co-sourced/offshore resources to meet the internal audit mission and objectives.
• Live by the DO values including:
• DO BOLD: We think big, bold, and scrappy
• DO FAST: We operate with a bias for action.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

Experience:

• 3-4 years or more of relevant experience – prior public accounting (Big 4 preferred) experience required, external and/or internal audit experience within the technology or computer software industry.
• Experience with leading, planning, scoping, testing and reporting for a full year SOX program in current or previous roles.
• Experience with leading the planning, scoping, execution and reporting of non-SOX operational audits, including the ability to frequently research unfamiliar topics for the purpose of conducting an effective audit.
• Experience evaluating the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of an end-to-end homegrown usage and/or subscription based billing system
• Data analytics skills with experience in using Google Data Studio, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, Metabase or equivalent. Ability or willingness to learn to work with scripting languages (e.g. Python) in conjunction with delivering assigned audit work.
• Strong knowledge of IT practices, including applications and infrastructure, security and vulnerability assessments, change management for homegrown product and billing platforms, and IT