MSCI is looking for a skilled IT specialist with a keen interest in IT internal controls to support our IT SOX function. This is a high-impact role within the Technology & Data Business Technology team, focused on improving and implementing IT general controls (e.g., user access and change management) and application controls (e.g., auto-calculations and validations) within the scope of MSCI's SOX program. You'll partner with key technology stakeholders to strengthen our existing program.
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.
