Shadab Pattekari
About Candidate
Analytical and experienced IT Auditor with over 4.10 years of experience in internal controls, IT risk governance, IT risk management, IT general and application control testing. Work performed has included internal control testing, walk-through, audit readiness follow-¬up and test of controls and external audit for public and private companies. |
Education
Work & Experience
• Performed IT general controls testing related to logical access • Performing review and testing IT controls such as Logical Access, incident management, change management, segregation of duties. • Performed internal audit for Access reviews for highly privileged user accounts (HPA) and Non-highly privileged user accounts (non-HPA) for applications. • Reviewing the systems for IT general controls, risk and compliance with policies and regulations. • Maintain transparent communication channels with all relevant stakeholders and promptly respond to requests from stakeholders in relation to risk management actions, tasks, and quality of outputs. • Coordinated with external auditors and documented process reviews. • Review the progress and any findings and work with different teams to manage remediation of control gaps from the assessments and audits. • Advises Senior Management on risk issues that are related to information security and recommends actions in support of the organization's wider Risk Management Program. • Monitors information security trends and evolving technologies as well as keeps Senior Management informed about related information security issues and implications for the organization. • Establish and maintain an information security strategy in alignment with organizational goals and objectives to guide the establishment and ongoing management of the information security program
• Escalate any issues in a timely manner to your Team Lead or Subject Matter expert. • Evaluated the effectiveness of information security policies, procedures, and controls • Interviewed business owners to understand needs and explain audit scope. • Followed established auditing processes to meet internal and regulatory requirements. • Performing review and testing IT controls such as Logical Access, incident management, change management, segregation of duties. • Assist in developing scope, performing testing and developing findings under the direction of Internal Audit management • Develop detailed work papers to provide sufficient evidence of work completed in the execution of the audit program including testing and analyzing results.
• Followed established auditing processes to meet internal and regulatory requirements. • Successfully implemented ISO 27001 information security management system (ISMS) for the client • Maintain transparent communication channels with all relevant stakeholders and promptly respond to requests from stakeholders in relation to risk management actions, tasks, and quality of outputs. • Assist in Influencing stakeholders and related affiliates to implement necessary process modifications to meet regulatory needs. • Coordinated with external auditors and documented process reviews. • Performing review and testing ITGC controls such as Logical Access, incident management, change management, segregation of duties. • Develop detailed work papers to provide sufficient evidence of work completed in the execution of the audit program including testing and analyzing results. • Execute risk assessments on processes or specific issues and define risks with proposed mitigation actions. • Reviewing BCP/DR Policies and procedure. • Publish and present timely and quality audit reports. • Provide assistance or prepared Vendor review checklist covering the entire Lifecycle of the Vendors starting from planning till termination. • Identification of gaps/observations, risks, opportunities and improvement of policies, processes, procedures, and standards. • Performing regulatory mandated Cyber Security and System audits mandated by SEBI and RBI. • Direct and educate junior team members on implementation and auditing techniques. • Assist in assessing risks associated with current processes and systems and work with management to identify/implement controls to address identified risks. • Perform assessment and controls testing to evaluate the design and operation of global IT and security controls like ITGC’s / IT Application Controls to determine the effectiveness of controls, identify gaps and implement the plan of action to remediate gaps.