IT Audit Manager

Visa's Internal Audit team enhances and protects the company's organisational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight on the state of Visa's risk and control environment.

The IT Audit Manager will work under the supervision of a Senior Manager or Director – Internal Audit to manage and execute aspects of the Internal Audit annual plan.

Responsibilities include:

• Participate in the execution of key areas of each audit engagement, while assisting more junior members of the team where appropriate.
• Serve as a key contact with client management, explaining the audit process and scope, keeping management apprised of audit progress and issues, and effectively delivering audit results to all levels of management.
• Assist in the execution of Internal Audit innovation activities such as those around AI, advanced data analytics, audit process automation, and continuous auditing.
• Stay abreast of company business strategies, IT industry technology advances, and the risk profile of assigned business areas to ensure relevancy of audit approach.

Essential Functions:

• Participate in planning and audit scope development as well as project execution as a critical team member on complex technology-related audits and assessments.
• Lead the execution of the assessment of specific technical areas of a project, supervising other team members and providing coaching where requested.
• Provide reports on the effectiveness of the business unit's internal control structure along with recommendations that improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and economic value of a control or process.
• Assess audit findings / gaps including control weaknesses with an appropriate degree of professional skepticism, seeking to fully understand risks to the firm.
• Evaluate the adequacy and timeliness of management's response and the corrective action taken on relevant weaknesses noted within audit reports.
• Provide control consulting services to management to assist in redesign efforts that improve the control environment.
• Maintain business relationships with appropriate levels of management to ensure that Audit is aware of changes in business activities and objectives, and a necessary Audit response is developed.
• Assist audit management with macro reporting by providing data relevant to technology audit findings.
• Promote new ideas and new ways of executing projects and internal infrastructure enhancements.
• Demonstrate commitment to Visa's and Internal Audit's strategic vision, be a self-starter, and promote project ownership and responsibility for actions.

This role is a hybrid position to be located in our Ashburn, VA office location.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, management information systems, or in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math).
• 5-10 years of deep technical experience in one or more of the following domains: information security, distributed operating systems, databases, network technology, mobile payments, tokenized services, cloud-based and virtualized environments, IBM mainframe, or Hadoop.
• Experience evaluating system controls associated with complex business applications.
• Strong time management skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10 - 25%.