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:
  • RACMs
  • Control Narratives
• 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