Internal Audit, Quality Assurance and Technology Audit Practices, Vice President, Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Vice President language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Birmingham assignment JOB FUNCTION Risk Governance account_balance DIVISION Internal Audit
Internal Audit
In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. We’re looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into the firm’s operations and control processes.
What we Look For
Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrates strong risk and control mindsets, analytical, exercise professional skepticism and can 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 techniques, building relationships and ability to evolve and thrive in teamwork and in a fast-paced global environment.
Responsibilities
You will play a vital role in the efficiency and effectiveness of audit practices for IA’s Technology audit team, globally. This will include executing on strategic initiatives and priorities of IA, and managing and driving process improvements, change and innovation in transforming audit practices, specific to IA’s Technology audit team. In addition, you will liaise with senior stakeholders in IA to understand training needs and work closely with IA’s learning and development team to deliver training.
PPG is comprised of quality assurance, practices, learning and development and transformation activities. You will be responsible for supporting thedelivery of high-quality, consistent and risk-focused assurance work, improving processes to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness with which assurance work is executed, driving audit skills training and maintaining audit methodology and policy as it relates to technology audit. In addition, you will partner and collaborate with other IA department working groups/initiatives.
As a Technology Audit Practices Professional, you will be responsible for
* Advancing, changing, and implementing audit practices as it relates to the technology area of internal audit
* Proactively monitoring for changes to industry and regulatory requirements, guidance and pronouncements and leading remediation efforts for the division where appropriate as it relates to the technology area of internal audit
* Maintaining subject matter expertise in relation to the above, as well as for new technologies and their adoption by GS.
* Reviewing and improving the IA Methodology Manual including related technology practices by drafting and presenting methodology documents to key internal stakeholders, including the Global Director of IA and Executive Leadership Team, developing guidance notes and other guides, and confirming a workflow in IA repository
* Developing and updating methodology and guidance to align to evolving technology practices and innovation initiatives
* Liaising across the QA team to identify required methodology updates and guidance resulting from QA reviews as it relates to technology, and applying QA feedback to enhance technology audit practices methodology and guidance
* Assisting with IA self-assessments to key regulatory and industry standards and make process, practice and methodology improvements related to technology
* Applying technical understanding of internal audit policies, standards, and practices to recommend enhancements to IA methodology and guidance
* Assisting with driving division-wide improvement efforts in efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity, including implementing initiatives on IA processes
* Assisting in the provision of technical and audit methodology training to auditors, including tailored training as needed as it relates to technology
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
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.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
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.
Health Services
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.
Fitness
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).
Child Care & Family Care
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.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
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