Internal Audit-London-Vice President-Technology Audit Full Time

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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.

TEAM OVERVIEW

Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrate strong risk and control mindsets, 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 techniques, build relationships, and thrive in teamwork in a fast-paced global environment.

Goldman Sachs Internal Audit comprises individuals from diverse backgrounds including chartered accountants, developers, risk management professionals, cybersecurity professionals, and data scientists. We are organized into global teams comprising business and technology auditors to cover all the firm’s businesses and functions, including securities, investment banking, consumer and investment management, risk management, finance, cybersecurity and technology risk, and engineering.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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, and 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 performs the following duties:

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

Additional responsibilities include:

1. Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of business areas, its products, and supporting functions.
2. Identify risks, assess mitigating controls, and make recommendations on improving the control environment.
3. Follow up on open audit issues and their resolution.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

1. Approximately 12+ years’ work experience, and a degree in Computer Science, Information and Cybersecurity, Engineering or equivalent discipline
   • Deep understanding of operating systems, experience of batch scripting and executing standard commands.
   • Internet infrastructure design and installation and support of network devices and firewalls.
   • Cloud computing concepts, technologies, risks and mitigating controls.
   • Systems and security administration and configuration of servers and desktops (UNIX, Windows, MacOS, directory services, etc.).
   • Security risks related to web, mobile, web services, and client/server architectures.
   • Encryption schemes (symmetric, asymmetric, and hashing) and how they may be applied in an application architecture.
   • Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing methodologies and processes for web, thick-client, and mobile applications.
   • Experience with Splunk and/or other SIEM platforms.
   • Threat modelling, intelligence, and incident response.
   • Management, monitoring, and operations of technology (backups, change management, system monitoring, incident/problem management).
   • Operational resilience, business continuity planning, and disaster recovery design and implementation.
   • Security within the software development lifecycle.
   • Relevant technology standards and regulations – NIST Cyber Security Framework, FFIEC CAT, ISO 27001, GDPR, NYSDFS, data privacy rules, FFIEC IT handbooks, etc.
   • Data and log analysis (using SQL and Splunk) and visualization (using Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView, or other) would be useful but not required.
   • Relevant certification or industry accreditation (CISA, CISSP, CISM, etc.) useful but not required.
2. Understanding of internal audit processes as related to a large financial institution.
3. Project management experience, including oversight and leadership of junior staff.
4. Highly motivated with strong analytical skills, willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly.
5. Ability to multi-task and remain organized in a fast-paced environment, and to regularly present to senior leadership.
6. Accurate, accountable, and able to multitask while managing both time and workload.