Senior IT Auditor: Risk & Controls Leader

Global Payments Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking an experienced audit professional to conduct operational, compliance, and financial audits for domestic and international operations.

You will lead planning, testing, and reporting, while guiding junior staff and coordinating with external auditors. Key responsibilities include evaluating controls across IT and business processes, managing risk assessments, and communicating findings with management.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant audit and risk management experience.
• Knowledge of auditing principles and practices, and the analysis and reporting of audit information.
• Knowledge of IPPF Standards, IIA best practices, auditing principles and practices, as well as the analysis and reporting of audit information.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Auditing, Business Management, Information Technology, or other similar degrees.
• Significant experience and expertise with common internal control frameworks and guidance, including Sarbanes-Oxley, SSAE 18 (SOC 1 and SOC 2, both type 1 and type 2 reports), and 2017 AICPA Trust Services Criteria for a SOC 2.
• CIA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCAK, CPA, or other relevant certification(s).
• Big Four audit experience preferred.
• 10-15% travel requirement, including some international travel

Responsibilities

• Conduct assurance reviews and audits to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls supporting the company’s business processes and information systems.
• Lead and execute all aspects of the audit process, including planning, risk assessment, controls identification, client coordination, fieldwork, data analysis, work paper documentation, reporting, and remediation validation, with direction from senior team members.
• Understand business and IT processes to identify risks and evaluate internal controls.
• Document thorough understanding of business processes, including the role of technology in supporting the process. Effectively perform testing of automated business process controls and IT general controls.
• Assess information technology design and operating effectiveness, particularly related to application and infrastructure logical access, change management, and operations, as well as more common information security considerations.
• Evaluate root cause factors, extent of risk, and mitigating/compensating controls for audit testing exceptions.
• Provide first level of detail review of work paper documentation to ensure audit testing work papers are documented in a consistent and high quality manner while executing project tasks in adherence to established timelines.
• Partner with the project manager to assess the adequacy of the corrective action(s) taken by management, stakeholders, or process owners to improve governance, risk management, and control issues.
• Track and report project status and milestones to project leadership and/or management.
• Discuss audit results, their impact and recommendations for corrective actions with the project manager, external audit partners, and/or management.
• Build and develop Audit Services Group’s brand within the company through meaningful relationship building.
• Coordinate audit activities with management, co-source providers and external auditors.
• Enable continuous improvement of the Audit Services Group by identifying and communicating enhancement opportunities to department leadership.
• Support the development of other team members within the Audit Services Group

Skills

Audit/project management

Risk assessment

Internal controls

Communication/presentation

Adaptability

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field

CPA/CIA/CISA/CISM or equivalent certification

Experience with SOX, SOC 1/2

Big Four audit experience

Tools

AuditBoard

Google Workspace

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is seeking an experienced audit professional to conduct operational, compliance, and financial audits for domestic and international operations.

You will lead planning, testing, and reporting, while guiding junior staff and coordinating with external auditors. Key responsibilities include evaluating controls across IT and business processes, managing risk assessments, and communicating findings with management.