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COMPANY OVERVIEW:TIAA is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and government fields. We offer a wide range of financial solutions, including investing, banking, advice and education, and retirement services.POSITION SUMMARY:Responsible for providing leadership and management within TIAA's Internal Audit division. Serves as an audit executive responsible for independently evaluating the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the internal controls and the quality of ongoing operations within the Company. As a member of the Internal Audit Leadership Team, develops and implements operational plans related to the implementation of the internal audit function's overall goals and objectives.Responsible for leadership and management in support of the Internal Audit data analytics function, providing analytics capabilities in support of internal audits, advisories, investigations, proactive forensic reviews and continuous auditing efforts. Directs a team of highly qualified data analysts and serves as a member of the Internal Audit leadership team. Develops and implements operational plans related to the implementation of data analysis in support of the Internal Audit and Internal Investigations functions' goals and objectives. Define and deliver against the integrated audit plan for data analytics. Provide analytics leadership on confidential and time sensitive investigations.Responsible for helping accelerate adoption of data analytics and innovation activities (e.g. self-service analytics and reporting, automation, and transformation) across a large team. Expertise in multiple advanced audit and quantitative / visual analytics techniques, methods, and tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau, R, Hadoop, Teradata, D3, Splunk, and/or Microsoft Power BI. Understanding of how to source data from a variety of structured and unstructured data sources leveraging various data integration tools and techniques (e.g. SSIS, DataStage, APIs, etc.) and manage the resulting data environment (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL, Hadoop, etc.) for specialist and self-service activities. Experience developing automation solutions through scripting, robotic process automation (RPA), or other techniques.Managing and providing direction to a team of employees across a large portfolio, while also driving important initiatives for the division. Responsible for final hiring and termination decisions. Completes and delivers performance appraisals, development plans and compensation decisions.Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across multiple business units. Has direct impact on the organization's ability to function competitively in a complex and changing regulatory environment and financial markets. Participates in large scale corporate IT development efforts, evaluates program and project management, raises critical issues and risks to executive and senior management. Disseminate and share best practices with business leaders, senior management, and corporate risk and control functions, adding value to the business and enabling the principles of risk management and control to be embedded in the culture and management practices.Makes decisions on complex technical issues dealing with risk assessment, regulatory compliance and controls issues having moderate to high impact to the organization. Must be skilled at analyzing root causes of problems and anticipating ‘horizon’ issues. Exercises judgment in determining risk assessment and audit methods, techniques and approaches for obtaining results.Requires in-depth knowledge of IT, data analytics, integrated audit approaches, risk and controls, and development methodologies. Must be proficient in risk and control analysis and audit concepts for multiple technologies, across a full range of financial services products and specialized areas. Represents internal audit for matters regarding data governance, "big data", data quality, and other relevant enterprise business topics. Challenges the organization's strategic approach in these areas through continuous monitoring activities.Regularly interacts with executives, internal and external peers, external auditors and regulators (FRBB, OCC, SEC, State Insurance). Builds a reputation as a trusted and valued partner to the Senior Leadership Team. Interactions frequently involve special skills such as preparing and making presentations to senior management regarding key issues and matters of large significance to the organization, with updates to the Executive Management Team as needed. Demonstrates effective negotiation skills, a proactive and 'no surprises' approach in communicating audit results and strength in sustaining independent views. Strong presentation and relationship management skills are essential. Requires effective persuasion skills, the ability to work effectively at the highest levels of the organization, and must display highly effective networking and influencing skills.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
Participates in defining audit service standards for the organization.
Through performance of risk assessment, identifies and evaluates fundamental operations and control issues, providing strategy and direction to attain compliance with control design, industry expectations and regulatory requirements with focus on operating effectiveness and efficiencies across the organization.
Evaluates technology and business operations, and develops relevant, cost saving, control and process improvement ideas to assist the organization in meeting its goals.
Provides direction and leadership to Internal Audit management in performing internal audit activity across the organization.
Uses research, past audit reports, regulatory expectations and own risk-based judgment to determine areas of priority for internal audit review.
Develops strong written deliverables, including executive reports and dashboards containing business-relevant information. This will include audit committee reporting.
Conduct complex risk-based internal audits under the general direction of leadership/management and consistent with auditing standards and professional practices.
Presents analytics results to executive business and Internal Audit leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS:Required:
Minimum 10+ years of experience in data analytics, information systems auditing, public accounting and/or diversified financial services, including experience in an internal audit leadership role.
Minimum of 8+ years of data analytics experience required.
Minimum of 4+ years of managerial experience required.
Bachelor's degree is required.
Preferred:
Strong knowledge of the financial services/ banking industry, as this role is responsible for defining innovative risk coverage and testing ideas and scenarios across a full suite of financial services projects and services.
8+ years of experience using relevant reporting and data visualization tools (e.g. SSRS, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, D3).
8+ years of SQL experience.
5+ years in an audit, risk, or compliance environment.
3+ years managing a database environment, including database objects (e.g. views, stored procedures, functions, etc.) and related security.
Experience managing or directing a data analytics team across multiple locations, including offshore.
3+ years in advanced analytic and programming tools (e.g. Python, R, SAS, TensorFlow) and experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning.
Experience working with unstructured data sources (e.g. Hadoop, Mongo, Cassandra, etc.).
3+ years of building and scheduling data feeds for ETL processes (e.g. SSIS, Data Stage, APIs, etc.).
Experience with robotic process automation (RPA) software (e.g. Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Selenium).
Relevant professional certification (CIA, CISA, CISSP, CFE, CPA) required or must be attained within 6 months of joining.
Equal Employment Opportunity is not just the law, it’s our commitment. Read more about the.If you need assistance applying due to being visually or hearing impaired, please email.We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.Additional Information
Requisition ID: 1722117
Field: Finance & AccountingCompany: TIAA
