IT Audit Manager

Invesco Ltd. • Houston, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

As an IT Audit Manager, you will have exciting opportunities to not only enhance your knowledge and familiarity with new technologies and cybersecurity practices across the global organization, but also Invesco products and business processes through integrated reviews covering areas such as Investments, Trading, Distribution, Compliance, and Finance.

Requirements

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in technology audit, consulting, or information security roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or Finance preferred. Other business or technology related degrees considered depending upon relevant experience.
• Experience auditing enterprise and web applications, cybersecurity practices, privacy, application security, API security, secure software development practices, vulnerability management, and infrastructure platforms such as UNIX, Linux, Windows, SQL Server, and Oracle databases.
• Experience designing and conducting data analysis to support audit objectives, including use of data analytics, automation, and AI-enabled techniques to identify risks, trends, anomalies, and control exceptions.
• 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, ISO27000, OWASP, and AI governance/control frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of current technology and cybersecurity trends, including artificial intelligence governance, model risk, cloud security, application and API security, identity and access management, data protection, DevSecOps, third-party technology risk, and operational resilience.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access etc.).

Nice To Haves

• MBA, Master‘s degree in Information Systems, Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Finance a plus.
• Professional auditing, security, or technology designation (e.g., 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.
• Knowledge of and experience auditing networking and firewalls a plus.
• Experience with concepts and auditing of cloud-based platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake), services, and applications, including cloud security, configuration management, encryption, logging and monitoring, identity controls, and third-party/SaaS governance.
• Experience designing and building continuous auditing or monitoring tools and techniques a plus, including automated control testing, exception reporting, dashboarding, and continuous risk monitoring.
• 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, including the ability to support audit automation, data validation, analytics scripting, and AI-assisted audit procedures.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing risk in areas of assigned audit responsibility and preparing proposed internal audit plans based on the results.
• Scheduling and coordinating 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.
• Assessing emerging technology and cybersecurity risks, including artificial intelligence, cloud services, application and API security, data protection, third-party technology risk, and operational resilience, as part of audit planning and engagement execution.
• Collaborating closely with the Data Analytics team to design, develop, and apply data analytics, automation, and AI-enabled techniques to support risk assessment, audit testing, continuous monitoring, and reporting.
• Assisting in training and development of junior team members by providing on the job coaching and delivering constructive and motivating feedback.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager