Sr. IT Audit Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

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 IT Audit Senior Manager will work under the supervision of a Director or Senior Director – Internal Audit to manage and execute aspects of the Internal Audit annual plan.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee the execution of all phases of the audit, supervising a team of up to six multi-disciplined audit (and co-sourced) professionals.

• 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.

• Lead the planning and audit scope development as well as project execution on complex technology-related assessments.

• Lead the execution of the assessment of specific technical areas of a project, supervising other team members and providing coaching where requested.

• Provide reports on the effectiveness of the business unit's internal control structure along with recommendations that improve the effectiveness, efficiency and economic value of a control or process.

• Assess audit findings / gaps including control weaknesses with an appropriate degree of professional skepticism, seeking to fully understand risks to the firm.

• Assist technology partners with the development of Management Action Plans to mitigate weaknesses, providing thought leadership on the appropriateness of the Plan.

• Evaluate the adequacy and timeliness of management's response and the corrective action taken on relevant weaknesses noted within audit reports.

• Provide control consulting services to management to assist in redesign efforts that improve the control environment.

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

• Assist audit management with macro reporting by providing data relevant to technology audit findings.

• Assist in the execution of Internal Audit innovation activities such as those around advanced data analytics, audit process automation and continuous auditing. Promote new ideas and new ways of executing projects and internal infrastructure enhancements.

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

• Demonstrate commitment to Visa’s and Internal Audit’s strategic vision, be a self-starter, and promote project ownership and responsibility for actions. 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:
· 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
· 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
· 8+ years of Internal Audit experience, preferably with a large financial institution or Big 4 assurance experience.
· Demonstrated experience managing audits within a complex operational and regulatory environment that includes mainframe, distributed and network technology platforms.
· Demonstrated ability to plan and execute IT audits focusing on technology risks including those related to Information Security, Information System Operations, Vendor Man