Due Diligence & Audit Specialist

The Role: Due Diligence & Audit Specialist

Grade: 10 (For internal candidates)

The Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

The Impact:

The Sales & Marketing organization drives growth for the Market Intelligence division and S&P Global through strong customer partnerships and innovative marketing to expand our footprint in the market.

The Proposal/Response Management Team is part of the broader Sales Strategy & Operations. An enabling function to qualify, review, and respond to RFXs, proposals (Standard/Custom), questionnaires, and other customer audits/queries. Our goal is to enable new revenue generation via RFX & deliver superior customer satisfaction by providing high-quality proposals & relevant information during pre/post-sales. We serve a vast array of clients across geographies and are committed to the client-first mindset.

What’s in it for you?

• You will be focusing on the Due-Diligence, Customer Audit, and risk assessment.
• You will be responsible for managing customer requests across numerous products and business lines.
• Additionally, you will be working closely with product and technical leads towards building consistent and accurate responses.
• Focus on developing an understanding of our product solutions and platforms from a business and technical perspective.

Responsibilities:

• Project management for client audits & respond to Due Diligence questionnaires.
• Maintains awareness of internal controls and audit trends to assure audit process remains effective.
• Preparing Due Diligence decks, General Questionnaire Responses, RFP/RFIs and Presentations.
• Coordinating with internal stakeholders such as sales, product, legal, and information security to respond to customer requests and create accurate, persuasive, and cogent response documents.
• Ensuring that responses are accurate, timely and comply with company standards.
• Assist with overall communication and approvals for responses which represent our entire organization.
• Assist with our centralized database processes, policies and procedures to drive improvement in tools and content.
• This individual will work closely with business and technical leads towards building consistent and accurate responses and must understand the product solution and platform from a business and technical perspective.
• Tracking to completion action items raised during risk assessments and audits.
• Queue Management and Responding to the requesters with the ETA.
• This individual will work closely with business and technical leads towards building consistent and accurate responses and must understand the product solution and platform from a business and technical perspective.

What We’re Looking For:

Business competency:

• Project Management - Familiarity with the client audit/vendor management process and compliance considerations, especially within the banking industry, and ability to manage both the process and stakeholders involved.
• Business Acumen – a firm knowledge, insight, and understanding of business risk management, global financial markets and financial products, business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; and the ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Understanding of RFP/RFI process, Information Security, Risk, Vulnerability and Business Continuity preferred.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking – Understanding of the issues related to the decision-making process; ability to analyze situations fully and accurately and reach productive decisions.
• Effective Communications – Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Internal Controls – Knowledge of and ability to create, implement, evaluate and enhance processes in internal controls.

Personal competency:

• Planning and Organizing – Mobilizes both time and resources to get things done.
• Possess excellent communication, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated with exceptionally strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work on multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to adapt to the requirement of stakeholders and work under tight deadlines.
• Creative and used to using initiative in all tasks and projects.
• Ability to develop excellent working relationships with internal colleagues is essential to the role.

Basic Qualifications:

Masters in Project Management,

Preferred Qualifications/ Knowledge Areas:

• Audit & vendor due diligence:
  • 4 - 7 years of relevant experience Customer/Vendor Audits and Vendor Due-diligence
  • 3rd party risk audit would be preferred

• MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Adobe Acrobat, and SharePoint.
• Security controls, and risk management procedures for SaaS-based products
• Vendor management processes
• Compliance would be added advantage
• Decision Making
• Critical Thinking
• Effective communication
• Internal Controls
• Stakeholder Management
• Database Management
• Que Management

Return to Work:

Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return-to-Work initiative (link to career site page when available), we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace

About Company Statement:

At S&P Global, we don’t give you intelligence—we give you essential intelligence. The essential intelligence you need to make decisions with conviction. We’re the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets. Our divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. 

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. 

US Candidates Only:  The EEO is the Law Poster http:******************************************** describes discrimination protections under federal law.

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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), PDMGDV202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority – Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning)