Overview

BTVK Advisory is a leading advisory firm whose specialized professionals guide clients through an ever-changing business world, helping them win now and anticipate tomorrow. BTVK Advisory, and its affiliated entities, have operations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. BTVK Advisory’s ultimate parent entity, Baker Tilly US, LLP, is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion.

 
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Job Description:

 

Responsibilities:

• Execute client service delivery working with managers for IT Assurance work including consideration of ITGCs, automated application controls, and information produced by the entity (IPE)/reports.
• Perform all aspects of the IT Assurance support work from planning through reporting on financial statement and ICFR engagements prioritizing our PCAOB integrated audits and all other audits where the engagement team is adopting a control reliance strategy for one or more in scope financial statement audit areas.
• Cultivate the relationships with core audit engagement teams and client IT personnel in designing and executing effective and efficient IT Assurance procedures
• Lead the integration effort between IT Assurance and the core audit engagement team procedures to break down barriers and silos in support of an integrated approach towards audit planning, execution and reporting as well as client service delivery
• Collaborate with core audit engagement teams to help evaluate / assess the effect of IT deficiencies on the overall audit and communicate deficiencies to the clients. Monitor remediation activities implemented by the clients to address identified control deficiencies.
• Perform IT Assurance work papers with an emphasis on quality / compliance with PCAOB and AICPA auditing standards.
• Support the IT Assurance Managers and Principal – Assurance PPG projects for practice knowledge development including designing, developing, and delivering trainings and tools/templates.
• Support other engagements / projects related to IT risk in other service lines as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Chartered Accountant and/or MBA (Finance), with certifications such as CISA or CPA (preferred but not mandatory).
• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience working with testing the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness testing of IT and/or business process internal controls for public and/or private entities
• An understanding of the financial statement audits and/or audits of internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) including the effect of adopting a control reliance strategy for the financial statement audits 
• Experience testing audit procedures related to IT General Controls (ITGCs), IT automated/application controls (ITACs) and controls over the accuracy and completeness of information/reports produced from the clients’ IT systems/applications and supporting infrastructure in accordance with PCAOB and/or AICPA standards.
• Good to have knowledge of other IT regulations, standards and benchmarks used by the IT industry (e.g.NIST, PCI-DSS, ITIL, OWASP, SOX, COBIT, SSAE18/ISAE 3402 etc.)
• Demonstrated knowledge of operating system and database platforms (e.g., mainframe, Active Directory, Windows, Linux, Oracle, etc.), network architecture, and associated auditing techniques.
• Knowledge of ERP’s like SAP / NetSuite / JDE / Oracle / etc and their native application controls will be preferred. Understanding of Cloud and DevOps tools for controls testing (AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Gitlab, etc)