The IS Compliance Assurance Specialist provides subject matter expertise on one or more areas of responsibility to guide, advise and support the relevant IS roles and IS organizations to comply with internal and external regulations in an adequate, effective and efficient way.

Your responsibilities

• Giving advisory and supporting services to line organizations how to design effective controls in all areas of regulations
• Driving IT internal control improvements across businesses towards increased use of automated and preventive controls in IT processes and towards continuous control automation
• Providing guidance, advisory and quality assurance services for control design/implementation/documentation and execution
• Overseeing the effective and timely remediation of deficiencies and secure sustainable solutioning
• Performing continuous assessment of impact of deficiencies to the reliability of applications and business processes
• Defining/creating/deploying training needed to grow maturity and execution quality
• Driving continuous improvements in all relevant processes/tools/procedures/practices/methods
• Supporting the creation of needed audit cycle documentation like Year End Letter/ Assurance Letter / ELCs
• Providing subject matter expertise in regulatory aspects (SOX/Data Privacy/Export Control/ ESG and others)
• Governance: Commit's to act within given governance set up, respecting overall ABB IS operating model principles according to agreed RACI specification
• Frameworks and Policies: Proactively works with Corporate IS GRC to understand regulatory require-ments as well as ABB methodologies in Risk Management and IS Compliance Assurance.
• Adherence to Corporate IS Policies and Procedures, as well as to both internal regulations and external legislation falls within the area of responsibility of this job.
• People Leadership: Provides expertise, advisory and training for all aspects of IS Compliance Assurance in the 1st line of defense teams to ensure that management and business management maintains a robust IS Compliance control environment over financial reporting
• Builds awareness and competence as applicable within the IS organization
• Provides leadership to temporary work teams, guiding and monitoring task completion, sharing expert knowledge and advice normally without carrying line responsibility.

Your background

• Master’s Degree (Information Science and Technology, Business Administration, Audit/Assurance related discipline)
• 10 years of experience in IT audit, IT control operations, IT compliance, IT risk management; Ability to understand regulations and legislations and the impact on IS
• Strong expertise in IT Auditing of a global SOX regulated organization
• In depth knowledge of requirements to an IT internal control framework for financial reporting
• Practical experience in applying industry good practices to IT internal controls in line with industry frameworks, standards and practices (COBIT, ITIL, CMMI, ISO 2700x, etc.)
• Solid experience in deficiency management, remediation of deficiencies, impact and reliability assessments
• Strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of the overall context of underlying business processes and technologies
• IS/IT process knowledge
• ITIL 4 certification preferred
• Professional qualification equivalent to CISA/CISM/CGEIT/CRISC (Enterprise IT risk management certifications) preferred
• ICA team members and line management
• IS Compliance roles across whole organization – Corporate, GBS and Business
• Good communication skills to deal with different stakeholders
• Team player with the ability to evaluate priorities
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Active listening skills / Critical thinking skills
• Complex problem solving skills
• Judgement and decision making skills