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Assistant Manager - IT Controls SME
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Job Title: Assistant Manager- IT Controls SME
Location: Bangalore, India
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1. Job/Role Description:
The Assistant Manager - Technology Controls is responsible for supporting the design, implementation, monitoring of technology controls across Unilever's digital landscape. The role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with SOX requirements, strengthening the control environment, and partnering with stakeholders to address control deficiencies in a sustainable and risk-based manner. The individual will act as a trusted advisor, influencing stakeholders across functions and defending Unilever's control position with internal and external auditors.
2. Job Summary
SOX & Controls Compliance
Execute and support SOX compliance activities across Technology domains.
Assess the design and operating effectiveness of IT General Controls (ITGCs) and Interface controls.
Perform control testing, evidence review, and deficiency assessments in line with internal and external audit requirements.
Ensure controls remain aligned with evolving regulatory and business requirements.
Deficiency Management & Remediation
Lead remediation efforts for identified control deficiencies and audit findings.
Partner with control owners to perform root cause analysis and develop practical remediation plans.
Track remediation progress, challenge delays, and ensure timely closure of actions.
Stakeholder Management & Influencing
Build strong relationships with technology, cyber, digital, and business stakeholders.
Influence decision-making without direct authority to drive effective control outcomes.
Navigate complex stakeholder environments and manage conflicting priorities.
Provide clear and compelling communication to senior management, auditors, and control owners.
Audit & Assurance Support
Coordinate with Internal Audit, External Audit and Product teams and control owners.
Represent and defend Unilever's control position during audit discussions and deficiency evaluations.
Prepare management responses and provide evidence-based rationale for control effectiveness.
Support successful audit outcomes while maintaining a balanced risk perspective.
Continuous Improvement
Identify opportunities to enhance control design, automation, and monitoring capabilities.
Contribute to strengthening the overall controls culture and risk awareness across the organisation.
Support implementation of technology governance, risk, and compliance initiatives.
Support the business with adhoc assessments/ compliance activity/ advisory against regulatory requirements that maybe global/ regional in nature
Roadmap and drive improvement activities from joint workstreams with teams like Standards, Privacy, CMDB etc.
Partner with cross-functional teams (Infra, Privacy, Standards, inventory) to improve security integration.
3. Experience & Expertise:
6 to 8 years of experience of IT and Cyber background with strong understanding of security control frameworks (e.g. NIST, ISO27000, CIS) and regulatory standards (such GDPR, SOX, PCI, etc).
Strong experience of managing operational risks and controls, including in end-to-end risk identification, assessment and mitigation.
Strong experience driving IT & Cyber Automation, enabling real-time telemetry ingestion and correlation using APIs, data pipelines, or event hubs.
Experience with Vendor Management and Quality Assurance, for reviewing performance of a large team of cyber security consultants against clearly defined targets
4. Skills and Competencies
Ability to analyse data and visualize compliance metrics effectively.
Specific certifications such as Security+, CISA, CISM, CISSP associate/professionals or equivalent
Strong knowledge of the applications or the technical landscape within the domain.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Agentic AI & Gen AI literacy
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