Sr. IT Auditor CONTRACT

Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce digital content advertising entertainment and communications bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the companys mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation optimism and teamwork.

Job Summary:

The Contract Senior IT Auditor will be a critical part of the Rakuten Americas Internal Audit Team. The ideal candidate will assist the IT Audit Manager in establishing an effective IT internal audit program including identifying planning organizing and executing audits that work towards Rakutens goals and objectives. The position will have a key role in assessing the companys compliance with the requirements of the Japanese Sarbanes Oxley (JSOX) act as well as EU General Data Protection Regulation and California Consumers Protection Act. The position will be further called on to identify and implement Information Technology department process improvements.

Key Responsibilites:

• Responsible for planning and audit scope development developing audit work program organizing and executing IT audit engagements to evaluate risk determine control objectives and verify the extent to which client techniques meet objectives.
• Interact with management collaboratively with Information Security team and external auditors to assess audit findings including control weaknesses with an appropriate degree of professional skepticism.
• Assist in the development of the annual risk assessment and IT internal audit methodology.
• Assist in the development of audit strategies best practices and utilization of relevant technology or audit tools.
• Inform audit management of current audit prior year audit findings and assist business partners with the development of Management Action Plans to mitigate weaknesses and evaluate adequacy of managements response and/or to ensure proper correction actions taken place to address prior year recommendations or findings.
• Maintain business relationships with appropriate levels of client management to ensure that audit management is aware of changes in business activities and objectives and if necessary audit responses is developed.
• Ensure audit work papers and reports are completed timely logical and organized to support conclusions and ready for audit management review.
• Perform other ad-hoc projects such as operational financial or relevant compliance audits and activities as needed.
• Collaborate with Information Security Compliance Legal Teams to make technology and operations efficient compliant and secure while managing other broad business risks.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• A professional certification such as CISA/CISM CISSP CPA and/or public accounting professional services firm experience is preferred
• Experience with information security distributed operating systems databases network technology cloud-based and virtualized environments tokenized services.
• Experience evaluating system controls associated with complex operational and regulatory environment.
• Knowledge of SDLC COBIT ITIL ISO IT General Controls preferred
• Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal forms; previous experience in writing internal audit reports preferred
• Travel up to approximately 30%

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in information systems Accounting or related business field
• 4 years experience in Internal Audit IT internal controls environment

At the time of posting Rakuten expects the hourly rate for this role will be between $55-$65 hr. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors including the skills qualifications and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location.

Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge set clear goals and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state provincial or local laws.