MANAGER, IT ASSURANCE & ADVISORY MGMT

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking an IT Audit Manager to lead multidisciplinary assurance and advisory engagements within the AMP IT Audit program. You will drive SOX testing and risk-based audits across the technology environment, while developing and mentoring staff and communicating results to leadership.

Ideal candidates bring 5–8 years of IT audit experience, strong project and people leadership, and a proven ability to manage multiple engagements in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years work experience including minimum 3 years in IT audit.
• Experience leading risk-based technology audits and advisory engagements across various technology domains.
• Experience evaluating IT general controls and application controls in support of SOX compliance.
• Familiarity with regulatory and industry frameworks including SOX, PCI DSS, SSAE-18, and NIST.
• Supervisory experience, including providing performance feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple engagements and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to work in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: identifies scope and objectives, secures resources, develops and executes plans, manages timeline and communicates status.
• People Development: mentors staff and provides performance feedback with HR collaboration.
• Process Analysis/Problem Solving: leads team to map processes and assess risks using Six Sigma concepts.
• Strategic Analysis: understands business, identifies risks and communicates results.
• Change Management: drives organizational change and ensures lasting adoption.

Skills

IT audit leadership

Executive communication

Project management

Team leadership

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Position Purpose

This position is part of the Assurance & Advisory Management Program (AMP), the Company’s Internal Audit function. The AMP IT Audit Manager is responsible for developing and driving the execution of multiple concurrent technology-focused assurance and advisory engagements, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control testing and risk-based audits across the technology environment (e.g., cybersecurity, infrastructure, emerging technologies). The Manger is also responsible for developing and mentoring associates and communicating results and insights to leadership through written and verbal communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Management: Identifies scope and objectives of project; Identifies and secures resource needs for project; Develops and executes high level project plan; Manages resources, deliverables and timeline; Communicates status and results.
• People Development: Assists in recruiting and hiring staff pool; Takes a leadership role in training, developing, and managing careers of staff pool by identifying strengths/areas of improvement, providing regular performance feedback, and working with HR Manager.
• Process Analysis/Problem Solving: Leads a team to identify, document, and communicate the underlying core and support processes that support a business strategy using the Business Process Review and Six Sigma methodologies; Uses data/metrics to measure the risk within the process and the impact of controls on the process opportunities; Identifies sustainable solutions to fix the breakdowns.
• Strategic Analysis: Gains understanding of the business; Identifies business strategies and objectives; Performs strategic risk assessment; Identify key business risks; Communicates/reports results.
• Change Management (Building Relationships): Accepts, leads and drives change with team by embracing and communicating the vision, assisting management with implementation of methods to ensure that the change lasts-gain organization's buy-in, prioritizes and integrates the changes into normal business practice, integrate with other organizational initiatives, identifies and removes barriers to success, integrates the changes into normal practice, and identifies the need to put the correct staffing, development training, rewards/measurements, communications, and organizational designs in place.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• Typically reports to Sr Manager Assurance and Advisory Management Program.
• Accountable for direct supervision of the work activities of others including personnel matters (e.g., selection, termination, performance appraisal and professional development) of subordinates.

Travel Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel 20% to 50% of the time.

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-8 years work experience including minimum 3 years in IT audit
• Experience leading risk-based technology audits and advisory engagements across various technology domains (e.g., cybersecurity, cloud computing, infrastructure/networking, disaster recovery, technology governance, emerging technologies) and platforms (e.g., on-premise data center, cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS), ERP, end-user computing)
• Experience evaluating IT general controls and application controls in support of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance
• Familiarity with regulatory and industry frameworks including SOX, PCI DSS, SSAE-18, and NIST
• Supervisory experience, including providing performance feedback
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills
• Strong leadership skills and ability to work in a team environment

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience

• None

Certifications

• None

Competencies

• People Management Skills: Supervisor to others; provide feedback and performance reviews
• Project Management experience in a corporate context.
• Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality and professionalism.
• Skill in developing multiple approaches to solving problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction