Internal Audit, Asset & Wealth Management Technology Audit, Analyst, London London · United Kin[...]

As the third line of defense, Internal Audit’s mission is to independently assess the firm’s internal control structure, including the firm’s governance processes and controls, risk management and capital and anti‑financial crime frameworks, raise awareness of control risk and monitor the implementation of management’s control measures.

In doing so, Internal Audit:

• Communicates and reports on the effectiveness of the firm’s governance, risk management and controls that mitigate current and evolving risk
• Raises awareness of control risk
• Assesses the firm’s control culture and conduct risks
• Monitors management’s implementation of control measures

Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrate strong risk and control mindsets, possess analytical skills, exercise professional skepticism and are able to challenge and discuss effectively with management on risks and control measures. We look for individuals who enjoy learning about audit, businesses and functions, have innovative and creative mindsets to adopt analytical techniques to enhance audit processes, build relationships and are able to evolve and thrive in a fast‑paced global environment.

As a Technology Auditor, you will be involved in providing assurance on the integrity and quality of data used for the purposes of portfolio construction and management, deal workflows, investment research flows, reporting for internal and regulatory purposes, application stability, system operations along with other general technology controls.

For each assigned review you will report to an experienced project manager. You will be expected to:

• Assist in scoping and planning of reviews.
• Assist in executing the reviews.
• Analyze the design of controls around the underlying system architecture in the context of information technology controls and its impact on the business.
• Analyze the business and technology processes to evaluate the design and effectiveness of the relevant technology controls by designing and executing tests to validate identified system control features, which may require data analysis, code inspection and re‑performance of system processes.
• Document the results of the test steps executed within the Internal Audit workflow application as per the departmental guidelines.
• Assist in vetting audit observations.
• Assist in tracking, monitoring and recording remediation of risks identified in reviews.

Qualifications:

• BE/B Tech/MCA/MBA/MS in Information Systems or equivalent University degrees in technology
• 2-4 years of experience as a technology auditor covering IT application and general computer controls, application development, SQA, information security, technology consulting or other relevant industry experience
• Understanding of software development and system architecture
• High level understanding of databases, operating systems and messaging
• Proficiency in Excel and SQL
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to multitask while managing both timelines and workload
• Must be highly motivated with strong analytical skills, willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly
• Financial Services knowledge and financial product knowledge is preferred
• Ability to review / develop code (Java, C#, Python, VBA macros etc.)
• Experience with Data Analytics tools and techniques
• Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., CISA, CISSP etc.)

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We’re committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.