IT Business Analyst
Pay Rate: $71/hr.
Work Location
Physical Address Worker Will Report To:
Rosemead, CA 91770
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Onsite Tuesday & Wednesday)
Schedule
M-F 8-5
Education Requirement
C. Bachelor's Degree
Day-to-Day Responsibilities / Workload
Contingent worker will act as both a business analyst and SOX analyst supporting IT SOX, business controls, quality management, and control documentation activities.
The role will partner with:
- Business
- IT
- Internal Audit
- SOX Governance
- External Auditors
- Leadership
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing, assessing, documenting, testing, and remediating internal controls across assigned portfolios.
- Supporting control design and operating effectiveness.
- Working with:
- ITGCs
- Automated/configurable controls
- Access controls
- Change management
- SDLC controls
- Reports/IPE
- Interface controls
- Deficiency management
- Control evidence
- Evaluating existing SOX, operational, and compliance controls to identify opportunities for:
- Automation
- Simplification
- Standardization
- Improved control efficiency
- Maintaining audit defensibility while improving controls.
Additional Responsibilities
- Serve as overall lead / project manager / assessor for assigned portfolios.
- Lead control deficiency reviews for IT SOX controls.
- Lead document management for:
- Risk, Audit and Control Matrices (RACMs)
- Control narratives
- Support:
- Scoping assessments
- IT project SDLC control assessments and design
- Robotic process automation design reviews
- Scoping memos
- Remediation plans
- Governance reporting
- Executive-ready status updates
- Perform business analysis activities, including:
- Stakeholder interviews
- Requirements gathering
- Current-state and future-state process mapping
- Gap analysis
- Action tracking
- Translating control needs into process or documentation requirements
- Evaluate current SOX, operational, and compliance controls and related processes for:
- Control design
- Operating effectiveness
- Automation opportunities
- Simplification opportunities
- Standardization opportunities
- Documentation improvements
The team is looking for a highly skilled internal controls professional who can:
- Operate independently
- Deal with ambiguity
- Move work forward without requiring step-by-step direction
- Work effectively across business, IT, SOX Governance, Internal Audit, External Auditors, and Senior Leadership
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong critical thinking
- Sound judgment
- Learning mindset
- Resourcefulness
- Confidence utilizing AI and digital tools to modernize analysis, documentation, reporting, and control execution while maintaining audit defensibility
Required Skills / Attributes
- 7+ years of experience implementing internal control policies, processes, controls, and system improvements.
- Strong experience with:
- SOX Compliance
- Regulatory Controls
- Operational Controls
- Risk Management
- Audit Coordination
- Business Analysis
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing control documentation.
- Experience managing:
- Experience supporting:
- Control Testing
- Control Design Assessments
- Operating Effectiveness Reviews
- Ability to synthesize data and process flows.
- Strong communication skills with frontline teams through executive leadership.
Technical Knowledge Required
Strong knowledge of ITGCs and control domains including:
- Access Controls
- Change Management
- SDLC Controls
- Automated/Configurable Controls
- Reporting Controls
- Interface Controls
- Control Deficiency Management
- Control Evidence Requirements
Must demonstrate:
- Strong critical thinking
- Sound judgment
- Learning mindset
- Ability to challenge existing control designs and processes constructively
- Comfort using AI and digital tools to:
- Improve analysis
- Streamline documentation
- Increase efficiency
- Modernize work processes
Education Requirement
Bachelor s degree preferred in:
- Business
- Accounting
- Finance
- Information Systems
- Technology
- Engineering
- Related field
Equivalent experience may be considered.
Minimum Years of Experience
7+ Years
Length of Assignment
Up to 18 months
May be extended or converted to permanent depending upon business needs.
Desired Skills / Attributes
- Experience with large-scale software implementations.
- Experience within enterprise business process control environments.
- Utility industry experience.
- Professional certifications such as:
- CIA
- CISA
- CRISC
- Equivalent audit, risk, quality, controls, or project delivery certifications
- Experience working with:
- Internal Auditors
- External Auditors
- Executive Leadership
Experience Developing and Delivering
- Executive-level presentations
- SOX status reports
- Governance materials
- Control deficiency memos
- Remediation plans
- Scoping memos
- Process flows
- Control design assessments
- Operating effectiveness assessments
- Testing support documentation
- Issue logs
- Decision logs
- Control narratives
Strongly Preferred
Experience identifying opportunities to:
- Automate or simplify SOX controls
- Reduce manual effort
- Improve evidence quality
- Modernize control documentation
- Utilize AI-enabled or digital productivity tools effectively