IT Audit Risk Manager recruitment

UBS is a leading global financial services firm. Our Investment Bank is one of the world’s top global investment banking and securities firms, providing a full spectrum of products to institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, government and hedge funds worldwide.

IB IT develops and supports technology for the IB Front Office and IB Operations within UBS Investment Bank. The IB IT function is global, with staff primarily located in Stamford/New York/New Jersey, London, Zurich and Singapore/Hong Kong/Sydney/Tokyo, with further staff in other regional locations. IB IT is responsible for delivering change programs with a truly global reach and which often span multiple UBS locations, departments and businesses.

The IB IT Operational Risk Management function is responsible for supporting IB IT Chief Operating Officer (COO) to effectively manage operational risk, security risk, regulatory risk and audit (internal external). We work closely with our counterpart business risk managers, Group IT Risk Management, Group IT Security Technology as well as with peer IT Operational Risk Management functions from other business divisions.

The position reports to the IT Operational Risk Manager for IB IT. The individual will be responsible for effectively and proactively managing all internal, external and regulatory audit activities within IBIT. The following are the main responsibilities for this role:

1) Overall management of any external audit activities, including liaison with our external auditors, assessment of findings and ensuring appropriate actions are in place
2) Assessing all known risks to understand the implications on external and regulatory audit reports
3) Liaison with internal audit for IBIT
4) Proactive management and assessment of upcoming and on-going audits, to ensure appropriate remediation measures are being taken
5) Manage any regulatory audits impacting IBIT, ensuring the regulatory scope and requirements are well understood and any gaps closed effectively and sustainably. These include SOX, MAS, HKMA, FED, FINMA and other regulatory bodies
6) Working closely with other IT operational risk teams on cross-divisional and regional aspects of internal, external and regulatory audits

• The successful applicant will need a variety of skills to ensure that the role is a success: excellent IT operational risk management skills, excellent knowledge of the IT and banking regulatory environments, good knowledge of information security, strong organisation skills; the ability to network well and get on with people; solid experience with handling management information and metrics, demonstrable experience of dealing with internal, external and regulatory auditors, excellent influencing skills. Experience of an IT Service Delivery Methodology such as ITIL, COBIT, 6 Sigma would be an advantage

Requirements

• Will be expected to have solid experience in IT operational risk management and/or IT audit. Success will be measured based on contribution
• Process orientation and ability to spot control weakness
• Integrate professionalism into the existing team of risk analysts
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and documentation skills
• Understands importance to comply to regulatory requirements
• General IT technical knowledge
• MS Excel data analysis skills and statistical knowledge of advantage
• Verbal communication, writing and presentation skills
• Experience of a project environment – able to help specify, test, implement and train individuals in self certification and metrics too

You are:
• An experienced IT operational risk professional or IT auditor
• A person with excellent communication and organisational skills
• A person with a technical background, with an ability to understand and appreciate different technologies and infrastructure
• Detail oriented, analytical, a good writer and presenter, adept at preparing PowerPoints and Excel pivot tables / macros
• Person with good experience in IT Risk, IT Audit and IT Security
• Comfortable with hands-on “delve into the details” work, as well as high level strategic analysis

UBS can offer you an environment geared towards performance, attractive career opportunities, and an open corporate culture that values and rewards the contribution of every individual.