Project Manager

Location: Pleasanton, CA
Duration: 1 year

Title: Project Manager - compliance
At the Project Manager Consultant Specialist level, you will be responsible for providing advanced compliance program management, with a focus upon SOX Control Self-Assessment activities. In addition, you will provide analytical, feasibility, business case and executive summary skills needed to form highly reliable risk management strategies to meet various compliance requirements.

Responsibilities include:
* An in-depth understanding of the broad regulatory landscape. Remain current with emerging regulatory sentiments as well as solution trends in the marketplace.
* Assessing the impact of laws and regulations on systems and technology. Work with other risk organizations to shape organizational control policies and standards.
* Manage large scale risk/security assessment studies and projects to validate and remediate perceived risks. Perform interviews, document design assessments, and walkthroughs of key controls (both new and existing).
* Lead cross-functional remediation teams in developing processes using requirements gathered from clients and engineering.
* Exhibit pragmatism in formulating process remediation and implementation strategies, defining work tracks; and submitting assessment findings and recommendations
* Design sustainment strategies and measurement systems to ensure that Compliance requirements can continue to be maintained over time.
* Support IT multi-year planning process by providing program and project descriptions, estimated costs and risk justification data.
* Develop and nurture trusted relationships with Business Partners, IT Executives, Security Compliance Officers and other Compliance Team Members to gain consensus approvals on strategies, recommendations, findings, project plans, etc.

Daily responsibilities
* coordinate with SOX control owner to complete self-assessment templates
* assess host layer internal controls
* coordinate activities with Compliance management

Required Skills
* conduct interviews
* understand host layer internal controls
* enter data into work plans
* communicate results clearly and succinctly