SOX Analyst

IT specialist

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of the

  technology internal control framework

  to build robust IT general and application controls for business reliance, ensuring complete and accurate financial reporting.
• Collaboratively partner and build relationships with

  control owners, internal audit, and external audit

  throughout annual SOX planning, scoping, control execution, testing, and issue management.
• Assist control owners through the

  SOX program lifecycle

  , including regular risk assessments, control design, control implementation, walkthroughs, and evidence collection.
• Directly support the IT team's assessment and improvement of

  business-as-usual (BAU) processes/controls

  related to user access provisioning/deprovisioning, user access recertification, privileged access, service account management, and change management. Your goal will be to ensure robust procedures are documented, processes consistently follow procedures, and to help redesign and improve inconsistently performed processes.
• Collaborate with internal audit throughout IT and operational audits, including key stakeholder identification, testing, and management action plan identification.
• Manage

  SOX control deficiency and operational audit issues

  , including remediation support.
• Perform

  management testing of SOX controls

  to ensure controls are designed and operating effectively, and issues are proactively identified prior to audit testing.
• Ensure

  control owner compliance with policies

  for critical processes by regularly assessing adherence with MSCI's procedures and standards.
• Proactively support ongoing stakeholder initiatives to assist in

  SOX audit readiness

  .
• Assist in team member education on best practices for proper control execution, process design, and audit evidence.
• Support special projects, including

  mergers and acquisition integrations and technology transformation projects

  .

Your Skills and Experience That Will Help You Excel

• Bachelor's degree in

  Management Information Systems

  or other relevant field (certifications including CISA are a plus).
• Experience as an

  information technology professional

  . Technology audit experience is a plus.
• Preferred knowledge of

  Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, IT application and general controls, and issue management

  .
• Robust knowledge of

  user access, change management, software development, system architecture, databases, and operating systems

  .
• Experience with

  Power Platform, ServiceNow, Salesforce, SAP, and/or Workday

  is a plus.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
• Effective relationship building with technology partners to accomplish critical goals.
• Team player with a desire to work successfully in a diverse and global organization.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, thriving with unstructured tasks and initiatives.