At a glance

ABN AMRO Clearing is a global clearing firm that provides an integrated suite of financial services to professional trading participants in the global financial market. Our core service offerings consist of execution, clearing, financing, stock borrowing and lending, settlement and custody. Today we clear and finance over 16 million trades per day and cover 90 of the world’s leading exchanges across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Our international network provides comprehensive market access to exchange-listed instruments such as stocks,futures and options. It also covers non-exchange-listed investment instruments and alternative products including bonds, OTC derivatives, warrants, forex, forwards, and energy and commodities. ABN AMRO Clearing consistently ranks among the top three clearers in every time zone, based on turnover and market share.
The role of Domain Expert (Audit) is within the Center of Excellence (CoE) IT Control & Service Management which is part of our (IT) 1Global organization. In this role (based in EU, Amsterdam) you will help to manage and reduce the organization’s information risks through continuous management & reporting related to the IT Risk & Control framework.
Additionally, in this role you might also be involved as a domain expert for the timely completion of Internal & External IT audit evidence requests, questions, and action items.
You do this all in close collaboration with with Domain Experts in the other regions (AP and US).

Your job

In this role you will help to manage and reduce the organization’s information risks through continuous management & reporting related to the IT Risk & Control framework.
Additionally, in this role you will also contribute to the timely completion of Internal & External IT audit evidence requests, questions, and action items.
The position is part of the IT Control & Service Management team (ITC&SM), which also liaises with global counterparts.

Job Responsibilities:

• Continuously manage, monitor, & report on the risk control framework detailed in the Information Security Governance Plan, specifically NIST & COBIT control frameworks.
• Act as a leading & coordinating resource for both internal & external audits (audit management), gathering & presenting detailed operational evidence (control monitoring), while driving recommended audit action items through execution and closure (issue management).
• Liaise with the IT CoE (Center of Excellence), and 2nd Line of Defense on key issues and projects.
• Executes various risk assessments and analyzes the data, presents the results and conclusions to management. Researches deviations and advises about risk mitigating actions. Organizes and controls follow-up of assessments.
• Responsible for management reporting for any needed security improvements and advises on the development and implementation of changes in standards and procedures.
• Reviews and revises IT procedures and makes recommendations for their implementation.
• Provide First Line of Defense IT Risk guidance within the IT Control & Service Management team across all aspects of the IT landscape; inclusive of Client and Third Party questionnaires.
• Collaboration and cooperation with IT teams and individuals across the globe on various initiative, projects and tasks.

Working environment

In your role as Domain Expert you are member of the Center of Excellence (CoE) team called IT Control & Service Management. This CoE is part the 1Global organization which includes IT and Business specialists around the globe. The 1Global organization consists of the Product GRID (mainly responsible for software development, maintenance and DevOps support), the Platform GRID (mainly responsible for developing and maintaining our on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure environments) and 3 CoE's (IT Control & Service Management, IT Architecture and IT Security). Most of the work done in the 1Global organization is done in an Agile way.

Prioritization of work and project-related budget allocation is done on high-level via the QBR (Quarterly Business Review) process and meetings.
The CoE IT Control & Service Management is setup of three streams: IT Control, IT Service Management and IT Supplier Management. Responsible for ITIL processes management, performance management.
The IT Control team is responsible for maintaining and updating the IT risk management framework and is also guiding and managing internal and external audits.
The Service Management team is mainly responsible for ITIL processes management, performance management, monitoring & audit, Chain control, service agreements and escalation management (e.g. Group SLAs standards, IGA).
And Supplier Management is responsible for optimizing the third party contract management for external software and HR-vendors.
Your role is in the IT Control stream where you work closely together with PO's, IT Engineers, IT Platform Engineers and Business Developers in both the Product and Platform GRID. And you also work together with colleagues in the other CoEs and also with our 2LoD team called I&ORM (Information & Operational Risk Management team).

Your profile

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree or equivalent degree/experience
• 7 to 10 years of working experience in an IT or Compliance environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of IT Audit experience, working with both internal and external audit teams.
• Certifications Preferred: Cloud Audit Academy AWS-specific, Cybersecurity Practical Applications Certificate,  Certificate of Cloud Auditing (ISACA), Certified Internal Auditor (IIA), CISM, CISA, CISSP, CRISC or CGEIT
• Experience working in a regulated and/or financial and/or IT industry preferred

Key Competencies:

• Knowledge of NIST, COBIT, ITIL frameworks (knowledge and experience with NIST highly preferred).
• Knowledge of Audit Lifecycle.
• Familiarity of IT best practices, particularly in the financial services industry.
• Knowledge of information management and of IT systems, processes, and regulations.
• Your nature is to take the lead and act in the driver eat, not waiting until others tell you what to do.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of an organization, including senior management/stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail & documentation required.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with Atlassian Products (Jira, Confluence), AGRC and/or ServiceNow a plus.

We are offering

• The opportunity and the freedom to get the best out of yourself, to work flexibly and plenty of room to grow both personally and professionally
• A gross monthly salary between € 6,689 and € 8,361 based on a 40-hour working week (but a 36-hour working week is also possible) depending on your working experience
• An additional 11% of your monthly allowance as ‘benefit budget’, which you can use the way you like (extra days off, a company phone, have the amount just paid out, etc).
• You get an extra €1.000 a year to spend on education (and extra options are available on department level as well)
• You will get free access to public traffic in the Netherlands
• An allowance for insurance costs
• We will help you to stay fit and vital
• Almost full flexibility in how you work (also partly working from home), when you work and where you work!
• A solid pension scheme
• An attractive and international working environment in which you can further develop yourself and enjoy a very nice job

Interested?

Are you interested?
Apply via the button below and upload your resume and cover letter. If you have questions or if you would like to receive more information, do not hesitate to contact Stephan Meulendijks (via email:Stephan.Meulendijks@abnamroclearing.com) or Yamina Khattala (via email:Yamina.Khattala@abnamroclearing.com)

We very much look forward to meeting you.

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

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