The Department
The Invesco Internal Audit function provides independent assurance, advisory, and investigative services for the organization. While partnering closely with business leaders, the department focuses on the most critical risks and issues facing the organization and delivers strategic, innovative, and data-driven results. The department strives to be valued business advisors that provide meaningful solutions and insights, not just information and recommendations. Our team continuously seeks opportunities to improve our methodology by leveraging technology, data, agile principles, and creative solutions to maximize value to the organization.
Your Role
As an IT Audit Manager, you will have exciting opportunities to not only enhance your knowledge and familiarity with new technologies, data and cybersecurity practices across the global organization, but also Invesco products and business processes through integrated reviews covering areas such as Investments, Trading, Operation, Distribution, Compliance, and Finance.
You will be responsible for:
- Analyzing risk in areas of assigned audit responsibility and preparing proposed internal audit plans based on the results.
- Conducting the planning for specific audit and advisory engagements.
- Collaborating with leadership and colleagues to deliver innovative approaches that meet the objectives of both audit and advisory engagements.
- Preparing audit testing strategies and approaches that meet the objectives of assigned engagements, with a focus on internal control design and testing, including for unstructured, risk-based, or complex audits.
- Performing audit testing and analysis and supervising the performance of work by any assigned staff or contractors, including reviewing workpapers, documenting control weaknesses or inefficiencies and managing the completion of the engagement within the given timeframe.
- Exercising individual judgment and initiative in selecting emphasis for coverage within an engagement and determining and locating sources of information.
- Independently evaluating issues based on impact and importance.
- Preparing results and conducting entry/exit meetings to obtain management concurrence and responses.
- Performing follow-up on previously identified findings and management’s action plans.
- Preparing reports targeted to senior management and corporate directors.
- Collaborating closely with the Data Analytics team to design, develop, and consume moderately complex data analysis.
- Assisting in training and development of junior team members by providing on the job coaching and delivering constructive and motivating feedback.
The experience you bring:
- Fluency in Mandarin is required.
- Willingness to travel to China, including Hong Kong, as needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Professional certification such as CISA, CISSP, or equivalent is preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in IT auditing, preferably within the financial services industry.
- Strong understanding of IT controls, risk management, and governance processes.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or Finance preferred. Other business or technology related degrees considered depending upon relevant experience.
- MBA, Master‘s degree in Information Systems, Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Finance a plus
- Professional auditing, security, or technology designation (e.g., CISA, CISSP, CCSP, AWS Cloud Practitioner, CFA, etc.) or to have substantially completed the requirements for such a designation while actively pursuing the completion of such designation preferred.
- Experience within the asset management or securities industries a plus, with knowledge of investment products (equities, fixed income, alternatives), portfolio management, trading and investment operations and finance.
- Experience auditing enterprise and web applications, cyber security practices, privacy, and various infrastructure platforms such as UNIX, Linux, Windows, SQL Server, Oracle databases.
- Knowledge of and experience auditing networking and firewalls a plus.
- Experience with concepts and auditing of cloud-based platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), services, and applications.
- Experience designing and conducting data analysis to support audit objectives.
- Experience designing and building continuous auditing or monitoring tools and techniques a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving ability; effectively identify risks and unexpected patterns in complex situations, investigate issues, analyze root cause, and determine the appropriate course of action.
- Excellent knowledge of leading practices around IT controls, such as the COBIT, NIST, or ISO27000 frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of technology and cybersecurity trends and tools.
- Proficient with analytics software such as Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, ACL, IDEA, etc. a plus.
- Proficiency in code development, specifically programming languages such as R and Python a plus.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access etc.)
