Director - IT Audit

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Job Tittle - Director - IT Audit

The Purpose of Your Role

As a leader, you will be accountable for delivering value to Fidelity’s various Business and Enterprise Technology functions such as Corporate Technology, Workplace Investing Technology, Fidelity India, Fidelity Ireland through the audit services provided by you.

Your role includes developing a deep understanding of relevant business processes, technologies and risks, partnering with audit stakeholders to gain consensus on key focus areas, envisioning the audit scope, leading other team members to prioritize and manage the work, and effectively prioritize and resolve dependencies. You will lead audits by working with the team and Audit leaders to ensure alignment of the team’s objectives with function’s priorities and strategy and deliver high quality audit results. You will be responsible for collaborating with audit leaders across India and the U.S. and manage relationships with the Business and Technology leaders.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Fidelity Corporate Audit provides independent and objective audit and advisory services that help Fidelity manage risk, improve customer service, and enhance business performance. This mission is accomplished through:

• Assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of controls, risk management, compliance, and governance processes

• Reporting on issues and solutions that improve Fidelity’s control environment

• Responding to change with a sense of urgency through continuous risk assessment and resource allocation

• Delivering value by enhancing the existing controls and enterprise security frameworks to adapt to a continuously changing environment

• Providing audit advisory services on new and changing products and systems

• Developing talented professionals for audit and leadership positions

The Expertise we are looking for

A strong leader who truly loves working with an inspired team to design and deliver exceptional value to audit stakeholders, and effectively collaborates within and across audit teams (as appropriate) to ensure alignment and appropriate execution for the work of the team. You bring to this role strong business and technical knowledge, collaboration skills and a fact-based, data driven approach to understanding risks to our business.

The Skills that are key to this role

• Strong foundation and hands-on experience of 15+ years within Internal Audit domain, with a specialization of Technology Audits and Financial Services. Ability to lead complex cross-functional audits across global locations, examining complex data, identifying patterns, and drawing accurate conclusions to uncover potential issues.

• Deep knowledge of Cloud computing (AWS), Dev(sec)Ops, databases, APIs, servers, SaaS security, Cyber and information security controls required.

• Works with Team to execute technology audits using a variety of audit methods, tools and techniques.

• Professional audit or information security certifications preferred (CISA, CISSP, SANS GIAC, CIA, CPA etc.).

• Strong oral and written communication and ability to articulate audit goals and value to clients

• Experience working with and understanding the needs of clients

• Strong project management skills to support the team in effectively managing multiple audits at a time

• Creative approach to continuous auditing and audit automation

• Ability to quickly learn new technology, subject matter in various business areas and develop others

• Lead by example – demonstrated by strong focus on continuous learning & development, and enabling others

The Value You Deliver

Setting vision to direct and inform the team’s work

• Collaborating closely with your team, product area and domain leaders to understand and drive alignment on the domain’s strategy, goals, and objectives

• Translating this understanding into a clear vision for your team to inform and prioritize audits

Supporting the team to achieve goals for each audit

• Prioritizing work through a well-organized backlog and clearly communicating highest value work

• Defining and clearly communicating acceptance criteria for output

• Making trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between identified risks and delivery timelines, as needed

• Delivering business results and customer value

Supporting and enabling the team to get its work done

• Regularly engaging with the team members to offer feedback on work-in-progress, clarify requirements and answer questions

• Removing blockers or impediments that prevent the team from progressing on its work

• Motivating and influencing team, being a voice for its members

Executing against Domain KPIs and sharing with your primary aligned chapter leaders

• Determining specific and measurable KPIs for your team

• Align on data-driven metrics to monitor domain and product area results

• Utilize results to modify and improve performance accordingly

Location: Bangalore, EGL

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