Intern - IT Audit

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain.

Based in Soho, the cultural heart of London's West End with a vast array of classic record shop and leading film companies, media offices and great restaurants. Regent's Park is close enough for a lunchtime run, as are the delights of Piccadilly Circus and the shopping mecca of Oxford Street. It is conveniently walking distance from a number of London tube stations and mainline train stations.

To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

This is a very rare opportunity to join a dynamic IT audit team, providing objective assurance on ABK's organisation's risk management, governance and internal control processes.

This role will give an intern a platform to develop practical IT Auditing knowledge and skills.

We expect hard work and passion from the successful candidate and commit ourselves to giving you real duties and training/mentoring with a goal to springboard you into a career in IT Audit.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Assist in risk-based planning for IT and finance-integrated audits
• Supporting end-to-end IT audits of cybersecurity, applications, underlying infrastructure, and other technologies supporting business processes
• Work with the business and technology stakeholders to provide assurance on key projects and critical change activities
• Work with process owners to develop solutions to issues and provide guidance on areas of change within the business
• Develop IT security and audit knowledge through on the job experience and training
• Liaise and work alongside US colleagues periodically (travel may be required to Spain/USA, post lockdown)
• Build a good working knowledge of the gaming industry, especially across ABKs divisions/businesses, from mobile platforms to AAA publishing
• IT controls testing for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance across the group.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Should hold or study towards a University degree of 2:1 or higher
• A familiarity with the basics of IT infrastructure and security
• A passion to develop knowledge of IT security, compliance and risk
• Operating in a fast-changing environment and industry; the auditor should be keen to constantly learn and have an analytical view of the business
• The successful candidate will work across the group, being exposed to multiple businesses, departments and teams. As such they should be confident at presenting and communicating to new audiences
• Capable of working in a diverse and inclusive organisation
• Able to self-motivate, prioritise work and meet deadlines
• Strong written communicator
• Be curious about the business and industry
• Experience with data analytics would be beneficial.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r12no0-18-188-152-162-42 in your application.