Technology Risk & Controls Specialist

WPP; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP is hiring a governance-focused professional to strengthen SDLC and transformation controls across ERP migration programs, embedding robust evidence and audit-ready practices. This role is pivotal in embedding control frameworks, testing rigor, and ensuring clear, traceable evidence across all stages from Initiation to Go-Live.

This role is pivotal in embedding control frameworks, testing rigor, and ensuring clear, traceable evidence across all stages from Initiation to Go-Live.

Responsibilities

• Govern and evaluate all phases of the SDLC, meticulously reviewing documentation, testing evidence, change artefacts, and data migration reconciliations from Initiation through Post-Go-Live.
• Develop and manage comprehensive evidence checklists and trackers, ensuring continuous completeness, accuracy, and audit readiness for all control activities.
• Mentor and empower project teams to proactively generate credible, high-quality, and self-sufficient evidence packages.
• Provide critical insights to the Transformations Lead on control readiness, evidence integrity, and impediments impacting assurance progression.

Job description

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the worlds leading brands.

We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.

We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.

Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

For more information, visit WPP.com.

Why we're hiring:

This role is pivotal in supporting WPPs large-scale ERP transformation programmes by embedding robust SDLC and transformation controls, driving compliance with our data and security requirements, and ensuring audit readiness for obligations such as SOX 404 IO. As a key member of the central assurance team, you will deliver control assurance and actively coach project teams, while also playing a strategic role in shaping the groups compliance and controls posture to be more consistent, standardised, and repeatable.

You will support the Transformations Lead in delivering judgement led, risk based assurance across ERP migrations and SDLC controls. The role focuses on strengthening first line capability, uplifting evidence quality, and ensuring controls are executed and documented to audit standards. You will work closely with Financial Risk & Controls colleagues to ensure transformation controls are aligned and integrated with financial controls. While accountability for operating SDLC controls and producing complete, accurate evidence sits with project and delivery teams, this role ensures they are equipped to demonstrate control performance clearly and consistently, guiding them to meet their obligations and targeting assurance effort where it adds the most value.

What you'll be doing:

As a pivotal member of our team, you will drive robust control frameworks and foster a culture of accountability across our transformation initiatives. Your key accountabilities will include:

SDLC & Transformation Controls Governance:

Govern and evaluate all phases of the SDLC, meticulously reviewing documentation, testing evidence, change artefacts, and data migration reconciliations from Initiation through Post-Go-Live.Develop and manage comprehensive evidence checklists and trackers, ensuring continuous completeness, accuracy, and audit readiness for all control activities.Mentor and empower project teams to proactively generate credible, high-quality, and self-sufficient evidence packages.Provide critical insights to the Transformations Lead on control readiness, evidence integrity, and any impediments impacting assurance progression.

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting:

Collaborate strategically with Project Managers, the Financial Risk & Controls group, Business Owners, and Technical Leads to define, clarify, and embed stringent control expectations and evidence standards.Generate insightful and concise reports that detail control posture, highlight emerging risks, and track remediation progress across complex transformation projects.Proactively escal ...

Championing First-Line Ownership & Accountability:

Champion and embed a culture of robust first-line accountability for control execution, documentation quality, and seamless evidence traceability.Empower and guide teams to confidently articulate their own assurance rationale and take full ownership of their control walkthrough narratives.Advise the Transformations Lead on first-line capability maturity, recurring documentation weaknesses, and any behavioural or ownership gaps that require attention.

Judgement-Led, Risk-Based Assurance:

Rigorously validate first-line assurance rationale, strategically focusing assurance efforts on the highest-risk areas to optimize impact and efficiency.Exercise acute professional skepticism to judiciously determine the scope and necessity of testing, ensuring resources are directed effectively.Highlight high-risk items and critical insights to the Transformations Lead, including the quality of rationale and instances warranting deeper challenge or a pause in assurance.

Auditor Engagement & Assurance Preparedness:

Facilitate and prepare first-line teams for internal and external audit engagements, ensuring they are equipped to present directly to auditors with clarity and confidence.Collaborate effectively with auditors on scope, sampling, and documentation expectations, while steadfastly .