Technology Audit Director

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team in a fast paced and challenging area? This is a unique opportunity for you to work in our EMEA Audit Function and partner with the Business. We are proud of our reputation for excellence, integrity, and collaboration. Our priorities of strong governance, transparency, and strategic engagement, along with our people-first culture centered around diversity, equity, inclusion, teamwork, career progression and continuous learning, have helped us create a coveted workplace where everyone feels like they belong.

**Job Summary**:
As the EMEA Technology Audit Director, you will be responsible for managing ongoing risk assessment, control identification, audit execution and continuous monitoring activities across the EMEA Regional technology portfolio. You will lead the EMEA Technology Audit Portfolio, as an Audit Director, and provide oversight of the technology audit coverage across control domains and lines of business. This role includes responsibility for overseeing technology audit coverage for the flagship European legal entity, with a footprint across 15 European locations

**Job responsibilities**:

- Developing, managing, and delivering risk-based audit plan, coverage and execution
- Performing detailed risk and control assessments to define the technology audit plan and coverage strategy across multiple technology control domains and lines of business
- Articulating complex issues and themes to senior level stakeholders, and presenting audit issues to risk and control committees
- Monitoring key risk indicators, significant change activities and escalating emerging issues
- Establishing and managing relationships with senior leaders, including serving as the key contact for stakeholders on technology audit and control related issues
- Staying current with evolving industry and regulatory changes, and analysing impact to business strategies, objectives, processes, and compliance
- Setting standards for efficient and achievable management of resources, schedules, and budgets
- Managing talent and key processes such as recruitment and annual performance reviews
- Prioritizing diversity, equity, & inclusion and creating an environment where all team members are able to contribute to their full potential
- Guiding careers through impactful coaching, timely and actionable feedback and providing a supportive environment to enable team members to learn, grow and achieve their potential
- Partner with colleagues, stakeholders and the internal controls community to evaluate, and report on the adequacy and effectiveness of control environment, governance and risk management processes

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Extensive experience (8+ years) with IT audits/control assessments, preferably in Financial Sector
- Solid understanding of internal control concepts with the ability to evaluate and determine the adequacy of controls by considering business and technology risks in an integrated manner
- Experience working with and auditing cloud technologies (AWS, Google and Azure)
- Strong analytical skills particularly in assessing the probability and impact of a control weakness
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex and sensitive issues to senior management and influence change
- The ability to work effectively within a team, both locally and globally, share information, support colleagues and encourage participation
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, effective under pressure and willing to take personal responsibility/accountability
- Proven ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, desire to learn quickly, be flexible and think strategically.
- Proven ability to multitask and deliver effectively under pressure, as well as the ability to assess and change priorities.
- Extensive experience on effectively leading and managing large complex technology audits.

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**:

- One of the following professional qualifications is preferred: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
- Prior experience of creating and developing a highly functioning, diverse team

**ABOUT US**

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversi