Staff Internal Auditor

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Internal Auditor

Main purpose of role:

Perform professional Internal Audit work as a key component of the corporate risk management, internal control and governance structure.  Works independently with oversight from the senior and manager level positions.  Takes initiative and is able to apply independent judgment to evaluate potential control gaps.  Assists in executing operational and information technology audit work on a daily basis. 

Specific duties:

• Support the Internal Audit Department in execution of audit activities across the organization to achieve departmental goals.
• Ensure timely completion of the audit activities within assigned budgets in order to support the department goals and objectives of timely, valuable execution of audit projects. 
• Apply operational and financial audit concepts and is responsible for one or more segments of the audit. 
• Gather and analyze information, verify accuracy, ensure compliance and execute tests to identify control gaps and/or improvement opportunities.
• Use existing procedures to solve routine or standard problems.
• Ask questions which will enable discussion surrounding business processes and audit observations.
• Work collaboratively with the audit team in communicating audit observations and developing value added, realistic and achievable audit recommendations.
• Communicate potential audit issues and potential budget overages in a timely manner.
• Assist in writing/drafting issues for inclusion in the audit report.
• Build trust through consistent and quality work timely delivered.
• Develop an understanding of SS&C businesses.
• Take ownership for personal development and work with mentor to identify learning opportunities.
• Be open to feedback and apply feedback in future work.

Knowledge and Technical Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience with external or internal audit
• Knowledge of operational and IT audit procedures and testing
• Knowledge of Internal Audit practices, including IIA Standards and Practice Advisories
• Technical audit skills and analytical/critical thinking skills
• Superior project and time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Consistently demonstrates professional and ethical behavior

Core Requirements:

• Employees are expected to uphold responsibilities for risk and business continuity practices as appropriate to their position in the organisation.
• Employees are expected to exercise due care and diligence, ensuring the areas the employee is responsible for are organised and controlled.
• Employees are required to observe proper standards of market, business and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties.
• The employee is required to respect the SS&C approach to client care and must demonstrate due regard to the interests of our clients and in any and all third party dealings.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.