IT Audit Operations & Quality Assurance – Vice President recruitment
BlackRock's Internal Audit Group is an independent global function responsible for providing assurance and advisory services covering all of Company's businesses and operations. Audit is a critical component of BlackRock's control and risk management infrastructure. The group seeks to attract and develop best-in-class talent from multi-disciplinary backgrounds including asset management, finance, technology, risk management, accounting, and operations. Successful professionals in the group will demonstrate a strong understanding of the asset and risk management businesses, build strong working relationships with business partners, and deliver value-added services which strengthen the risk and control environment.
Role Description
The Operations and Quality Assurance (QA) Vice President is responsible for delivering high quality, efficient operational support and reporting services to the global audit delivery team and providing quality assurance services to the Global Audit Director and BlackRock Audit Committees. He/she will be located in New York and will manage a number of direct reports.
Responsibilities:
The Operations and QA Vice President will participate in Audit's Senior Leadership Team meetings and will contribute to Audit's strategic planning, process innovation, and assurance/advisory projects. Specific responsibilities will include:
Operations:
- Governance and regulatory reporting - Manage the production and quality of reports to executive management, governance committees, external regulators and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, globally
- Management reporting - Produce monthly, quarterly and ad hoc management information for the leadership team
- Operations - Manage the monthly audit issue and audit execution status update process and integrity checks; coordinate quarterly and annual audit planning activities; support resource scheduling of the global audit team
- Platforms - Support administration of the function's audit work paper, issue management and scheduling platforms
- Communications - Facilitate effective global team communications, including town halls, newsletters, intranet site, practice updates and other formats
- Knowledge management - Support the function's on-line collaboration tools and document repositories
- Talent management - Support recruitment and performance management processes and work closely with Human Resources on talent initiatives
- Training - Develop and maintain team training resources and deliver training as required
- On-boarding - Support the effective on-boarding and off-boarding of staff
- Business continuity - Prepare and maintain business continuity plans
- Project management - complete global projects to a high standard and on time
- Efficiency - Develop innovative and creative automation and reporting solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of current reporting
- Collaborate - Collaborate with the other risk and control functions, as well as external auditors, to ensure assurance and reporting activities are coordinated
- Manage - Recruit and develop a high performing team; provide timely and candid feedback and coaching to staff; effectively manage resources to optimize productivity, meet training and development needs, and deliver high quality, value added reporting and transparency
Quality Assurance:
- Methodology - Maintain the global audit methodology, drive continuous improvement and deliver methodology and audit platform training
- Quality Assurance Reviews - Manage the quality assurance program and perform quality assurance reviews over audit work papers, action verification work papers and auditable entity risk assessments
- Client Feedback - Solicit, collate, analyze and communicate client feedback after audits to support continuous improvement
- Audit planning - Provide assurance over the quarterly and annual audit planning process
Skills and Experience:
- The successful candidate should have extensive experience in a mature internal audit function within a financial services institution with a strong understanding of internal audit methodology best practice and quality assurance processes
- Extensive experience in a project intensive role centered on effective communication and creative solutions
- Excellent communication (verbal, written, and listening) and interpersonal skills; excellent writing skills, particularly as related to audit reports and management presentations
- Strong project management, organizational skills and presentation skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in liberal arts or business
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with Audit's senior leadership team and key business partners
- Advanced competency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel required.
- Professional certifications such as CA/CPA a plus
BlackRock is proud to be an E-Verify Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer--M/F/D/V.
Skills
BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions -- from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.