US-CA-LA- Technical Audit Specialist Needed 417



  • This is an ideal position for a technical auditor from one of the ‘big’ firms who is looking for a chance to settle down and come ‘inside.’ Ticketmaster offers an excellent opportunity for such an individual to take ownership of the technical audit process and work closely with a world-class operations and IT group.
    Technical audits are becoming increasingly difficult to perform and perform well. Interfacing with audit personnel, both internal and external to the organization, takes valuable resources off of mission-critical projects and operations to provide the information necessary to satisfy the auditors’ many and varied requirements. Ticketmaster is looking for an energetic, motivated audit specialist to join its Corporate Information Systems team who can thrive in a highly technical environment, someone who knows up front what the auditing requirements are and who will work with multiple technology groups to satisfy the requirements in a manner that is organized, thorough, and proactive, all while minimizing the impact to the productivity of the technical departments’ staff. The ideal candidate is someone who has lived through several audits, preferably on the auditor’s side, and who is fluent the languages of auditors, tech staff, and finance personnel alike. In addition to auditing duties, the ideal candidate will serve as the primary liaison between the tech organization and the finance organization for matters including operating expenditures, capital expenditures, employee hiring, and general financial planning. As such, this person should be someone who is very comfortable not only with the concepts but also with the language so that the conversations with finance personnel can be as productive and succinct as possible, a translator of sorts between finance and tech.
    Title: Technical Audit Specialist
    Company: Ticketmaster
    Location: West Hollywood, CA
    To Apply: Please submit your resume to techjobs_at_ticketmaster.com
    Please put ‘sox-audit’ in the subject of your email.
    Essential Functions:

    • Drive the creation, adoption, and adherence to technical security policies, and serve as the face of the technology organization with HR and Legal staff in this endeavor.
    • Functionally own and operate the Security Audit and Policy Management System (Preventsys).
    • Work with the technology teams to discover and remediate security flaws and/or other areas for improvement.
    • Collect, organize, and validate audit-related materials.
    • Study auditing practices and changes to those practices, and proactively prepare tech staff well in advance of the changes.
    • Serve as the primary liaison to the auditors, shielding the rest of technical staff except when necessary.
    • Catalogue the myriad information submitted to finance by technology groups: capitalized wages, hires/terminations/transfers, capital expenditures, operating costs, etc.
    • Interface with finance staff to maximize information accuracy
    • Manage the master schedule of events during the auditing and budgeting cycles to minimize last minute scrambles for information
      Required Experience:
    • Bachelor of Arts or equivalent college degree, preferably with a technology focus
    • 3 seasons of technical auditing experience: SAS70, Sarbanes-Oxley
    • Firm grasp of security best practices and tools: ITIL, SANS Top 20, MBSA
    • Exceptional documentation skills, excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
    • Superior organizational skills and attention to detail.
    • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
    • Strong background in Statistical Analysis (spreadsheets, pivot reporting, trending)
      Candidates must be highly self-motivated, a strong team player, driven to excellence and have the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to handle many tasks simultaneously and prioritize work at all stages.
      To Apply: Please submit your resume to techjobs_at_ticketmaster.com
      Please put ‘sox-audit’ in the subject of your email.


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  • Hi,
    I am a senior Indian Chartered Accountant. I am also a qualified Information System Auditor. I have got more than 28 years of post qualification experience, 24 years of them being in large multi unit multi divisional industrial establishments. Have got varied experience in Finance, Accounting, Pay Roll, large Foreign Exchange Transactions for imports, Tender evaluation for Project procurement under International Competitive Bidding Procedure as well as under local reserve under IBRD. OECF Funding etc, Stores Accounting, Taxation, Auditing, development of computerised Accounting Systems, Project Cost Monitoring and Stores Accounting Packages Etc. I am quite familiar with working in computerised work environment using different platforms like DOS based software on stand alone PCs as well as LAN and Unix based Oracle software. I am also well acquainted with the use of special audit and data analysis software ACL. I had worked in the General Management cadre and was reporting to top management functionaries for the past several years.
    I resigned from my Corporate Job (Title: Dy. General Manager) as on 30th September,2001 and joined a Hyderabad (India) based firm of Chartered Accountants, in existence for forty years with an impressive list of big and small Corporate clients, both from Public and Private Sectors, on 1.10.2001 as Director (Audit and Assurance Services). I left this firm from 1st of March,2003 and established a proprietary practice firm in May,2003.
    So far I have handled SOX documentation assignment for two Indian companies, one being a wholly owned subsidiary of an American company and the other an Indian Pharma major. The jobs involved documentation of work processes using ‘MS Office’ utilities like ‘MS Word’, ‘Powerpoint’ and ‘MS Visio’ software for flowcharting, linking the Process Flow documentation to Control Risk Matrix, developed adopting ‘COSO’ guidelines on Internal Controls and conducting walk throughs to test the effectiveness of the controls.
    I am keen to take up SOX documentation assignments on contract basis. If any limited work is to be taken up on offshore contract basis I am open to consider such prposals also. Terms and conditions are negotiable.
    If you are interested, you may contact me on phone 91 40 27731797 or through E-mail at p_kannnanassociates_at_yahoo.co.in or pkan_at_rediffmail.com.
    Thanking you,
    Yours Truly,
    P.Kannan


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