Campus Pride Jobs

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. is hiring a(n) Associate, Internal Audit Technology (ref. Code R241509 in New York, NY.Duties: Engage with BlackRock businesses to identify key processes and risks and connect with businesses across the firm to understand changes to their risks and operations. Understand technology implementation or processes by engaging directly with business unit leaders and stakeholders to understand heir unique operational challenges, changes and evolving risk profiles. Identify industry (e.g., OWASP Top Ten Risks) or Firm’s emerging risks and determine how they may be applicable to and mitigated by the business. Research and stay up-to-date with industry best practices, emerging technologies and trends that could drive changes in risk landscape for the firm. Engage with BlackRock businesses to identify key processes and risks and connect with businesses across the firm to understand changes to their risks and operations. Conduct meetings with business process Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and perform in-depth analysis of gathered data to assess potential technology and security vulnerabilities and opportunities for sustainable process improvement. Prepare comprehensive Process Risk Controls Matrix, Audit Reports, Issue Risk Support Matrix, and presentations detailing findings, insights and recommendations derived from work analysis and testing results. Participate in cross-functional meetings to provide valuable independent input and insights regarding process enhancements and risk reduction post issue identification - APIC. Facilitate periodic stakeholder relationship meeting to address issue remediation challenges post audit engagements and report on issue remediation statuses. Conduct annual engagements with business functions to update internal documentation and perform risk-assessments to determine risk-rating of the business function's key processes. Participate in projects that optimize business and technology activities and processes. Develop technology process audit program to optimize testing strategy and reduce planning overhead. Develop and manage audit strategy and support audit staff during course of project. Manage and lead action verification of audit issues prior to closure. Participate in projects that optimize business and technology activities and processes. Participate in stakeholder introductory discussions to understand team composition (e.g., number of staff, roles and responsibilities), the technology (e.g., application, technology infrastructure such as servers, databases, automated job processors) that the team supports. Examine how technologies are implemented including settings, features, administrative function (e.g., how users are added or removed, and how access is permissioned). Examine business project plan, business requirements, technology specifications, and process documentation, and assess how they align against Firm’s requirements (i.e., policies, standards and guidance), industry best practices (e.g., frameworks such as NIST, COBIT) and regulatory requirements, where applicable. Evaluate process design and operations to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of these processes. Examine how a automated (i.e., a function of an application) or manual (i.e., performed by a human) control is designed (e.g., who performs it, its frequency, its stage in the process) to mitigate a risk (i.e., possibility that a theoretical negative harm to business activities may be incurred in the absence of controls). Assess the technology implementation by evaluating how components or features of the technology is designed to meeting business needs, and how they are performed in practice (via manually testing the feature or examining historical processed data). Perform scenario or function testing to determine whether the technology control or component functioned as designed. Use BlackRock data to build analytical tools and reports that assist the audit teams in delivering effective audits, ultimately contributing to department management through the analysis of Internal Audit data. Understand how data is managed (e.g., process for organizing the data to specific format or transformed) and stored (e.g., within a database or file). Assist with performing data normalization activities (i.e., joining data points from more than one sources into a common format to be used for analysis). Identify and analyze data trends or patterns that may indicate key activities or movement of key risks within the business. Analyze and organize internal technology risk data for Senior Management and Board reporting.REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Business Intelligence and Analytics, Computer Science or a related field and two (2) years of experience as an Analyst or related. Related skills may be required.The salary range for this position is $112,000.00 - $137,500.00 per year.Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.To apply, please send resume to the following email address us-applications@blackrock.com & include the job order number visible to you above in the subject line of the email. It is important to include the job order number in the subject line of the email. Also include the Ref code number: R241509

Minimum Salary: 112000 Maximum Salary: 137500 Salary Unit: Yearly