Internal Audit-New York-Vice President, Technology Audit-3735218
About The Position
The Vice President, Technology Audit role at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in New York, New York, involves identifying risks associated with Technology implementations, governance, privilege management, change management (including Software Development Lifecycle), and data completeness and integrity controls. The position requires managing the design and execution of technology controls for the firmwide data governance framework, covering data creation, maintenance, and lineaging. Responsibilities include concurrently managing multiple audits, scoping and planning them, and employing audit and analytical procedures to assess the effectiveness of technology controls such as security, availability, and performance, and their business impact. The role also involves defining and presenting audit scope, progress, and results to stakeholders, utilizing sampling or complete enumeration methods, and documenting audit testing clearly. Collaboration with application developers, system architects, engineers, and security practitioners is key to ensuring system features meet business, technology, and regulatory requirements. A significant part of the role includes reviewing and analyzing large datasets using data analytics techniques for completeness and accuracy in regulatory reporting, providing independent assurance on the internal control structure, and coordinating with business auditors for integrated audits. The position also requires creating visualizations to present data analysis results and writing scripts in programming languages for data quality control testing.
Requirements
- Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.
- Performing design assessments by reviewing the system architecture or system code configuration to opine if design is in line with business expectations.
- Performing effectiveness tests by designing and implementing scripts, implementing analytical and data analysis skills, and recreating error scenarios through reperformance to opine on control effectiveness.
- Testing large volumes of data by designing and implementing scripts, performing data profiling, reperforming calculations through different programming languages, such as SQL, Python or Java Scripts, to opine on control effectiveness.
- Documenting audit testing and results in a clear and concise manner.
- Communicating scope, progress, and results of audit reviews to internal audit teams and technology and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Independently identify risks associated with Technology implementations, Technology governance, privilege management, change management, including Software Development Lifecycle, and data completeness and integrity controls.
- Manage the design and execution of technology controls around the firmwide data governance framework that relates to creating, maintaining, and lineaging data.
- Manage multiple audits concurrently, including the scoping and planning of the audits, employing audit and analytical procedures and techniques to assess the design and operating effectiveness of the technology controls such as security, availability and performance and their impact on the business.
- Define and present the scope, progress, and results of the review to audit management, technology, and business stakeholders.
- Utilize sampling techniques to determine groups to be audited or use complete enumeration methods.
- Document audit testing and results in a clear and concise manner.
- Collaborate with application developers, system architects, engineers, and security practitioners to validate that system features meet business, technology, and regulatory requirements.
- Review, analyze, and validate large sets of data by applying various data analytics techniques to confirm completeness and accuracy for regulatory reporting.
- Provide independent assurance of the internal control structure within the firm's technology infrastructure and business systems.
- Coordinate with business auditors on integrated audits to assess business process and systems for mitigating financial, regulatory, and reputational risk within Controllers and Tax.
- Create graphs, charts, or other visualizations to convey the results of data analysis.
- Write new scripts in programming languages to conduct review of data quality controls for effectiveness testing.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
