What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Audit and Compliance Specialist - Santa Ana, CA position at Pivotal Solutions?
IT Audit and Compliance Specialist
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct PCI health checks to identify gaps, and work with internal IT teams and business units to remediate these gaps prior to the PCI recertification process on a yearly basis.
- Implement SOX controls and contribute to the execution of IT Assurance and risk audits, ensuring effective risk management practices and compliance with regulatory frameworks.
- Understand financial systems and conduct related user access reviews on a quarterly basis.
- Complete domain audits on a quarterly basis to review all IT privileged domain controllers.
- Engage with 3rd party vendors to complete risk management assessments aligned with NIST.
- Work towards remediating NIST gaps and communicate with the internal IT team for resolution.
- Help develop and maintain a data governance program in relation to NIST and PCI guidelines.
- Support disaster recovery audits and simulations on a yearly basis.
- Work with SQL Server daily to ensure data integrity within the Payroll, AD, and ERP systems.
- Maintain change management protocols to ensure major changes and projects are reviewed prior to implementation.
- Ability to work on daily tasks, monthly tasks, and quarterly tasks while engaging with various projects and audits.
- Understand and engage with technical discussions for the entirety of the IT environment, such as IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, application development, and ERP maintenance.
- Ability to lead discussions with both technical IT users and non-technical business users
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, engaging with both technical and business processes.
- Support internal audits of IT systems and processes, ensuring the changing environment complies with organizational standards.
- Collaborate with various internal departments (e.g., Operations, Finance, Fleet) to ensure IT systems and operations meet compliance requirements.
- Stay up to date with changes in IT compliance regulations and best practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems (CIS) or Computer Science (CS).
- Ability to work well in a team environment and engage with cross-functional departments.
- Strong communication skills and a willingness to learn and grow in the field of IT audit and compliance.
- Minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience in IT audit, IT compliance, IT risk, cybersecurity, or IT project management
