SOC Governance Analyst - Chicago, United States - Spectraforce Technologies

Description

Role:
SOC Governance Analyst

Duration: 6+ Months (possible extension)

Work Location:
Tempe, AZ or Chicago, IL

The SOC Governance team is a small but highly performing team at the client, responsible for the governance around the suite of our SOC reports.

The team does not perform testing.

The team works with business and technology owners throughout the organization to ensure their processes and controls are reflected accurately within each report and coordinates with external auditors and internal testing teams responsible for testing the controls.

The team consults control owners on responses to new requirements that impact their controls and helps ensure each report is fit for purpose.

The team also executes SOC Governance activities that support the program, such as administering control assertions, responding to client questions, and maintaining intranet sites.

The team is currently also working on several program productivity initiatives, which include a systems implementation requiring data standardization, process optimization, and stakeholder training.

This individual contributor role within the team is balanced between two high-level priorities:

• Help implement Technology/Productivity Initiatives
• Manage assigned SOC reports (including report content and project management)

Primary Responsibilities

Technology/Productivity Initiatives

Assist with the implementation of WDesk

Standardize data across reports and systems used within program

Optimize and refine program processes based on new technology and data approach

Prepare file scrubs, implementation data, etc. and perform UAT around imports and updates as needed

Work with stakeholders to adopt new systems/processes

Report Content

Work with stakeholders/auditors to strengthen target areas of ICFR content, such as articulating data flows within processes, ensuring completeness and accuracy of data used in controls / process flows

Ensure controls align to attributes in report objectives, and work with business owners to align if necessary

Work with business owners to ensure all supporting applications, control contacts, evidence, testing and population notes, and other control testing attributes are adequately identified and documented

Evaluate and document complex and high risk areas throughout the Corporation

Ensure reports and control records are updated in appropriate systems, etc.

Enable timely process and control walkthroughs with business owners and external auditors

Evaluate and respond to testing comments from external and internal control testers

Report Project Management

Serve as governance lead by providing proactive and accountable end-to-end project management, update, and coordination for assigned reports.

Will need ability to jump in mid-process depending on joining date:

Planning and timeline

Update of documentation with business/technology owners

Facilitate process and control walkthroughs

Assertion of controls

Facilitation of control testing, including triage and resolution of testing escalations and exceptions

Exception investigation, analysis, and remediation tracking/closeout

Communicate status to various stakeholders

Off-cycle updates and communications


You:
Have applicable experience with controls, narratives, stakeholder management, and exception analysis

Are proactive, accountable, and engaged

Apply critical thinking to responsibilities

Ensure execution of critical deadlines

Act with urgency when completing responsibilities and to facilitate/resolve testing escalations and exceptions

Can carry out a variety of activities that are large in scope, cross-functional and technically difficult

Apply analytical skills to program and/or control data, evaluate impact, and articulate conclusions

Manage or escalate competing priorities to ensure critical deadlines and initiatives are met

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