We are seeking a dynamic technical expert capable of managing projects, solving complex problems, simplifying solutions, and inspiring and upskilling the team. The role focuses on evaluating Shopify's risk management for their advanced IT systems, offering a unique opportunity to work in a flexible audit environment where expertise, innovation, and unconventional approaches are highly valued.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with technical teams across Shopify to understand and assess IT and business risks, compile risk information in a manner that is easily consumable by stakeholders, and facilitates communication of findings.

• Ensure that all work is supported by clearly defined value-based project plans, is effectively executed with strong stakeholder engagement, and is supported by high-quality audit reports.

• Manage multiple IT audit projects simultaneously ensuring that they are completed within their time requirements and expectations.

• Stay on top of industry trends, emerging technologies, and changes in IT audit and data analytics practices to continuously improve the internal audit function.

• Upskill resources across the team on IT knowledge, expanding team capacity for IT audit and data analytics.

• Leads the development of automation tooling to support continuous monitoring of critical IT and business transactions and system health.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as computer science, information systems, or business administration. 

• Proven experience performing assurance and advisory projects relating to Information Technology with particular emphasis on system implementations, artificial intelligence and machine learning, technical security configurations, and cloud to cloud migrations.

• Hands-on experience building data analytics and reporting solutions in SQL and one of or both of Python or R in the context of assurance and advisory projects

• Experience evaluating IT, security and application controls in the context of a compliance program for a company of similar size and complexity of Shopify.

• 5 + years of proven experience leading risk and/ or internal audit assessments with embedded data analytics for a leading edge technical company.

• Strong knowledge of industry risk and compliance frameworks such as NIST, ISO, SOX, SOC, and PCI-DSS.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and identify innovative solutions to complex challenges.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously using agile project management methodologies.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders.

• Self-motivated and adaptable, with a strong drive for continuous learning and professional growth.