As a member firm of EY, SGV's Assurance Services will give you the opportunity to take on responsibilities that allow you to develop a deep and professional knowledge base in various industries. By joining our team, you'll help our clients in complying with their reporting requirements by providing an objective review of their financial statements, timely discussions with the business regarding matters about accounting & financial reporting, and recommendations to audit stakeholders.
You will be responsible for assisting engagements on the assessment and/or evaluation of IT systems and the mitigation of IT-related business risks. Engagements are assurance (attestation) in nature and vary considerably in size and complexity. Assurance-related engagements may include, but not limited to, the following:
- Financial audit IT integration (FAIT) o Internal Controls testing, such as IT application controls (ITACs), IT Dependent Manual (ITDM) controls and manual controls.
- Service organizations reporting (e.g., ISAE 3402, SSAE 18 (SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3), ISAE 3000)
- Expanded assurance engagements focus on: o Pre and Post Implementation Review
As a Senior Associate, you are expected to supervise the day-to-day project activities, to provide coaching to your staff, provide support and/or updates to your Manager and assist in administrative activities (e.g., talent and quality initiatives, and operations) which aim to reinforce the practice.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Execute projects with varying levels of complexity based on the defined approach and methodology with guidance from Managers
- Gathering relevant information to understand the client's business, processes, risks and controls (e.g., organizational structure, management, protocols)
- Provide guidance and support to Associates in understanding the client's business, processes, risks and controls through walkthrough discussions with the client counterparts and performing site visits when needed
- Perform quality review of audit work done by Associates and provide timely and constructive feedback (e.g., readability, informational and typographical accuracy, completeness, conciseness, consistency, etc.)
- Evaluate control design and/or operating effectiveness using a risk-based approach
- Evaluate third-party service organization and complementary user entity controls, as applicable
- Discuss audit issues with client management and prepare deficiency listing, including obtaining remediation action plans and due dates
- Monitor and report status of deliverables against planned timeline, including identifying and providing recommendations to mitigate and/or address issues and dependencies
- Contribute ideas with the team to improve ways of working and complete project outputs
- Attend and participate in internal trainings, and complete the required and assigned learnings
- Conduct trainings and/or seminars and be part of internal and external Firm projects
- Participate and contribute to any internal capacity and capability building activities for the benefit of the team examples include people engagement, onboarding and quality and service delivery initiatives
- Develop positive relationship with peers, supervisors, and mentors/counselors
Role Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Accounting Information Systems, Internal Audit, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or graduate of any Business Course
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience (Preferred: IT Audit, SOX Audit, SOC Audit; Secondary: Internal Audit (i.e., financial or operations), Compliance)
- Great To Have: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
