Senior Analyst, IT Audit

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 198928

 Salary Range: 67,400.00 - 125,200.00 

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

 

Global Banking and Markets 

 

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world. 

 

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.  

 

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries!  We work together to drive ambition for every future! 

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the Audit Department in the US ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

 

The successful candidate will perform / manage audits as part of IT Audit Team in assessing the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls for infrastructure, applications, databases, operating systems, data warehouses, and interfaces, including AML transformation programs and data governance audits with support from Head Office IT audit teams.

 

Apart from the technical skills noted above, the incumbent should be able to apply risk-based auditing standards, practices, techniques, processes, and methodologies to the audit of the internal controls.  The incumbent will also be required to work as part of a global team that audits key IT infrastructure and applications.

What You’ll Do 

 

• Review and evaluate the IT environment and provide assurance over the Bank's IT applications, data, security, ETL, interface controls, report logic, and project management controls.  
• Assist with engagement planning and scoping, perform audit execution, problem identification and evaluation, issue writing, reporting and communication, and develop and provide high-quality value-added recommendations.  
• Act primarily as team participant on assignments of low to medium complexity for assigned projects, processes, and units. Work cross-functionally with other IA team members to support and drive a collaborative team environment.
• Deliver end-to- end process of the execution of the audit and ensure nature and extent of testing is appropriate to support the objective, scope and overall opinion. Completes workpapers timely, ensures internal control weaknesses are clearly documented with recommendations addressing the root cause and are communicated timely to management.
• Active engagement and coordination with Stakeholders for audit issue resolution.
• Support the unit’s continuous monitoring program by understanding and identifying changing conditions within business, risk and corporate functions, risk profiles, emerging risks, systemic issues and determine current and future audit requirements. 
• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct. 
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Support the unit’s continuous monitoring program to understand and identify changing conditions within business, risk and corporate functions, keep abreast of changing risk profiles, guide assessment of emerging risks