Manager of IT Planning
KL7010020504Description
Governance-related:
- Oversee the implementation and management of IT compliance efforts to ensure the controls are designed effectively, operating effectively and the testing results are met for any external requirements.
- Manage the efforts of compliance analysts and IT personnel responsible for the control environment to ensure the overall understanding of the control environment and to assure the proper alignment with the top down risked based objectives and activities.
- Provide leadership for and oversight of SOX activities across IT and introduces workflow automation to improve testing activities and elimination of unnecessary work.
- Lead the development and implementation of the IT audit strategy surrounding external requirements designed to improve accuracy of testing results adding to a high degree of reliance on management self-testing from Internal and External auditors.
- Implement and manage the COBIT 4.1 framework across IT and assumes lead role in the planning, testing, remediation, managements responses and reporting.
- Oversee the formal quarterly attestation process for the control environment.
- Create an open portal for compliance reporting and metrics to all of IT management on an as needed basis, provides monthly updates and escalates issues to management while providing assistance with remediation efforts surrounding the issues.
- Manage continuous improvement of the IT compliance program. Utilizes analysis of compliance testing data and benchmarking to drive increased efficiency and effectiveness of the program, including automation as appropriate. Prioritizes and manages improvement initiatives.
- Act as the liaison between internal and external auditors for IT audits as required.
- Engage with Program Management to ensure SOX compliance. Use continuous performance measurement tools and methodologies to manage improvement initiatives, project progress and analysis as part of Change Management Process within IT.
- Ensure that IT risk identification, assessment, mitigation, management, communication and monitoring strategies are integrated into strategic and tactical planning processes.
Architecture-related:
- Manage the development of an enterprise architecture vision and strategy.
- Manage the modeling of business area strategies, goals, organizational structure, and processes for IT understanding.
- Manage the modeling of IT systems, data flows, and technologies for business understanding.
- Manage the development of a data and systems management framework, including stewardship, governance and decision making by project development teams, business users and other stake-holders.
- Manage the development of an architecture road map.
- Manage the development of a combined IT-business strategy.
- Manage the development of enterprise IT standards, processes, and tools.
- Manage measurement of quality related to: 1) completeness and quality of architecture information, 2) reduction of architecture redundancy and fragmentation, 3) identification of unnecessary architecture, and 4) improvement of enterprise information quality.
- Manage the development of processes and tools that identify and resolve cross-organizational data and systems management issues.
- Manage the development of an enterprise architecture framework.
- Manage the review of project design compatibility with the enterprise architecture vision.
- Manage support on use of common enterprise architecture models and promote their use and enhancement by new projects.
- Mentor enterprise architecture team. Once the employee is established in the role, it is anticipated they will assume formal leadership over the team.
Desired Experience
Qualifications
General:
- Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership using a team-oriented, collaborative working style to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage complex or matrix organizational structures.
- Master-level written and oral communications, including the use of proper grammar, spelling, document organization, clarity, and use of content appropriate for the audience.
Governance-related:
- 5 years IT Compliance, information security, and/or audit experience with Big4 environment required.
- Subject matter expertise in compliance and controls with experience interfacing with external auditing bodies required.
- CISA and CGEIT required. CISM a plus.
- External SOX IT Audit experience required.
- Experience performing "top-down" IT Risk Assessments for systems impacting internal controls over financial reporting.
- Experience training and educating audit staff and control owners on SOX compliance requirements.
- Experience writing policies and managing compliance documents.
- Knowledge of IT systems and process analysis tools.
- Awareness of common security technologies.
- Demonstrated management skills building and motivating teams in an environment undergoing high amounts of change.
- Experience in risk management.
Architecture-related:
- Expert knowledge of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, particularly TOGAF.
- Experience with business process reengineering.
- Experience with integration technologies such as SOA, ESB, EAI, ETL, and data warehousing.
- Experience with enterprise architecture.
- 10 or more years experience as a systems or database Analyst.
- Experience with enterprise repository tools, data modeling tools and data profiling tools.
Location
New Jersey - Mercer CountyCompensation
