Senior Information Technology (IT) Auditor

NV Energy

(Las Vegas, Nevada)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About NV Energy
NV Energy has served citizens in northern Nevada for over 150 years, and southern Nevada since 1906. Nevada Power, Sierra Pacific Power and Sierra Pacific Resources merged in July 1999 to create one of the fastest growing energy companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Summary
Assists Internal Audit Management in maintaining Internal Auditing as an independent, objective assurance, and advisory activity designed to add value and improve the company's operations. Assists the company in accomplishing its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, internal control, and governance processes.
Responsibilities
* Plans, develops, and executes information technology audit projects to evaluate the effectiveness of risk management, internal control and governance processes. Areas of emphasis include: operational, compliance/regulatory audits as well as assessing system configurations, settings, security, data integrity, user access, system implementations, program and project management, and other generally accepted information technology controls in accordance with professional standards, including Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. * Ensures that projects are appropriately designed to identify and assess risks, and to evaluate related controls and monitoring processes. * Ensures compliance with professional standards. * Performs follow-up on the status of audit findings requiring remediation. * Provides recommendations to management to strengthen internal controls, ensures compliance with regulations and company policies and improves processes to meet the company’s business objectives. * Prepares work papers, reports, and memos documenting and summarizing the audit recommendations and supporting data in an accurate, logical, concise, and independent manner. * Designs and builds data analytics scripts in ACL tailored to meet specific objectives of audits and for use on a continuous basis, as applicable, to strengthen the system of internal controls. * Performs assignments with significant potential impacts. * As necessary, provides direction to and trains less experienced auditors. * Reviews the work of other auditors to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with professional standards. * Fosters a good working relationship between Internal Audit and client departments and serves as a liaison between internal customers and the audit function. * Advises Internal Audit Management on information technology related matters. * Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company. * Performs related duties as assigned.
Ideal Candidate
**Education and Work Experience** * Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field from an accredited school and 5-7 years of related information technology audit experience. * Professional certification in information technology, accounting, audit, fraud examination or other related discipline strongly preferred. **Specialized Knowledge and Skills** * Demonstrated knowledge in applying internal auditing and information technology standards, procedures, and techniques. * Demonstrated knowledge of current information technology standards and trends. * Demonstrated interpersonal, oral and written communication skills. * Demonstrated skills in presenting information in a clear and concise manner to senior management as well as interacting with all levels of the organization. * Demonstrated analytical, organizational, time management and project management skills in order to handle assignments, changing priorities, and achieving deadlines and working independently. * Demonstrated planning and decision making skills. * Demonstrated skills in leadership, training, motivating, developing, and influencing others, and establishing credibility with business partners. * Maintains absolute confidentiality. **Equipment and Applications** * PCs, word processing, spreadsheet, audit working paper, audit analytics and database software. * Familiarity with ACL, Banner CIS, PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications, Unix, Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, Oracle, SCADA, smart grid technologies, Hadoop and Informatica a plus.

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