IT Audit Manager

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow.

At Allianz Asset Management we act with integrity, take ownership and responsibility and care for employee wellbeing. Would you like to be a part of the financial and governance holding for Allianz Group‘s asset management business? Then, join us as an IT Audit Manager and become a valued member of our IT Internal Audit team based in Newport Beach, United States.

The IT Audit Manager, reporting to the Head of IT Audit, is a highly experienced senior specialist role with in-depth auditing experience in Digitalization and IT.

What you will do

• Responsibility for risk-based planning of the annual audit plan and the risk assessments, and successful execution of the audit plan and ad-hoc engagements.
• Build-up and maintain relationships with the auditees and become a recognized partner to the business also on senior stakeholder level.
• Plan, lead, manage and supervise complex large-scale, cross regional and cross-functional audit assignments, supervise audit projects (IT and integrated audits), define risk-based audit areas (both IT and business), audit infrastructure and network, processes, and control systems, business transactions, as well as workflows with very limited supervision.
• Determine deficiencies and vulnerabilities to be remedied, analyze audit results, proposals for solutions, lead closing meetings and performing audit follow-up activities, including assessing the sufficiency and timeliness of remediation actions.
• Collaborate on departmental and inter-organizational projects.
• Ensure compliance with the audit policies and the respective standards (independence, integrity, confidentiality, truth and fairness, security, economy, system conformity).
• Support and review auditor’s work (audit preparation, interviews, tests, evidence gathering, report writing and validation preparation).
• Be a center of Excellence for IT Infrastructure & Network Management, Information Security, Cyber Security, and Public Cloud, but also IT General Controls, integrated audits, business application controls, system development methodologies, Business Continuity Management, and IT best practices.
• Mentoring and coaching of less experienced staff on complex topics. Plan and implement technical training and information sharing (team/peer).
• Driving consistent enhancement of methodology and practices of the audit function.

What you bring

• Minimum 9 years professional experience in internal/external IT audit, or as IT consultant or equivalent.
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree (or comprehensive experience) in Information Technologies, Business Informatics or equivalent.