Risk and Compliance Representative

Accenture; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Risk and Compliance Senior Analyst to join the Controls and Compliance team. You will conduct audits and reviews to identify risks in the Application Development & Maintenance environment, and work to ensure compliance with policies, processes, and external/internal standards.

You will support certification programs, promote continuous improvement, and collaborate with global delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-year experience in auditing principles and practices.
• Minimum of 3-year experience in application security/audit roles in application development & maintenance service industry.
• Minimum of 3-year experience in operational compliance requirements.
• Contract management / service reporting experience (SLA/OLA).
• Risk management or assessment experience.
• Knowledge of cloud environments (Azure/AWS/Google).
• Team and stakeholder management experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform audits/reviews to assess risks in Application Development & Maintenance service environment.
• Manage risk in Application Development & Maintenance service to an acceptable level.
• Increase awareness of and compliance with policy and process matters.
• Support successful completion of external compliance certifications and internal assessments.
• Introduce continual improvement including lessons learned from issues requiring intervention.
• Lead audit-style reviews of engagements covering compliance matters and service delivery best practices.

Skills

Auditing principles

Application security

Operational compliance

Contract management

Risk management

Cloud environments

Team & stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Risk and Compliance senior Analyst works with the Application service delivery organization and other compliance related functions to help:

• Perform audits/reviews to assess risks in Application development and maintenance service environment
• manage risk in Application development and maintenance service to an acceptable level
• increase the level of awareness of and compliance with policy and process related matters
• support successful completion of various external compliance certification programs and internal compliance assessments
• introduce continual improvement including lessons learned from matters requiring intervention

This successful candidate for this role will be a member of a dedicated team operating a Controls and Compliance function, which will perform audit style reviews of Application Development & Maintenance Services outsourcing engagements covering compliance matters and operational service management and service delivery good practice.

Must-Have Skills/Qualifications (list in order of priority): (*useful but not essential for L10)

• Minimum of 3-year experience in Auditing principles and practices (sample qualifications*: CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor)
• Minimum of 3-year experience in Application security/audit roles in Application development & maintenance service industry (sample qualifications*: EC-Council’s CASE (Certified Application Security Engineer), CEH(Certified Ethical Hacker), Agile Methodology( Certified Scrum Master), DevOps Certification, CMMI for Development Knowledge of secure SDLC models, secure coding standards, OWASP Top 10, threat modeling, SAST(Static Application security testing), DAST (Dynamic Application security testing), single sign on, Encryption)
• Minimum of 3-year experience in Operational compliance requirements
• Contract Management / Service Reporting(including Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements)
• Risk management or assessment (sample qualification*: CRISC)
• Knowledge of cloud environment and services (sample qualification*: Microsoft Azure/AWS/Google Certifications)
• Team and stakeholder management

Nice-to-Have Skills/Qualifications:

• Data privacy and protection (sample qualifications*: CIPM, CIPT, CIPP)
• CISSP*, CISM*, CISA*, CCSK*, CCSP*
• SOC1 and SOC2 (SSAE16 / ISAE3402) awareness
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery awareness (ISO 22301)

Other Requirements (i.e., travel, overtime %):

• Occasional within country travel.
• Flexibility in working hours required for meetings with the global team and with service delivery contacts in other geographies - overtime may be necessary at times

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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