IT Audit & Risk Consultant (#596)

This role offers a unique opportunity to drive IT Audit remediation and IT risk mitigation initiatives across the organization. The position is ideal for a professional with strong planning, project management, stakeholder engagement, and IT governance skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and oversee comprehensive audit remediation and risk mitigation action plans, ensuring clear ownership, deadlines, milestones, and progress tracking.
• Coordinate with relevant IT teams, business stakeholders, risk owners, and other functions to follow up on action items and ensure timely completion.
• Monitor remediation activities and proactively identify potential delays, dependencies, risks, and obstacles, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Facilitate regular remediation and progress review meetings, ensuring action plans are updated and accountability is maintained across stakeholders.
• Track key IT risk management activities, supporting the identification, assessment, and mitigation of emerging and existing risks.
• Prepare regular management reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership, providing clear insights into remediation progress, outstanding issues, risks, dependencies, and upcoming deadlines.
• Collaborate closely with internal audit, external auditors, IT teams, risk owners, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment, transparency, and effective resolution of audit findings.
• Review and challenge proposed remediation actions where appropriate, ensuring that corrective measures adequately address identified audit and risk concerns.
• Support decision-making processes by providing accurate analysis, recommendations, and relevant risk and remediation information.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of audit follow-up, risk management, reporting processes, and supporting tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness.
• Execute assigned BAU activities independently while supporting the development of team members through knowledge and experience sharing.
• Support the IT management team with ad-hoc activities and strategic initiatives, taking delegated ownership of tasks and projects.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification preferred.
• 3–5+ years of professional experience in IT Audit, IT Risk Management, IT Governance, Security, Compliance, or a related area.
• Fluent in Japanese and English; a TOEIC score of 850+ is preferred.
• Proven experience leading assigned tasks, initiatives, or projects from planning through completion.
• Strong experience in action tracking, remediation management, reporting, and stakeholder coordination.
• Ability to analyze complex issues, provide clear insights, identify root causes, and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and manage assigned BAU responsibilities effectively.
• Experience supporting managers with ad-hoc activities and leading delegated tasks while understanding their broader strategic and organizational context.
• Strong experience facilitating and coordinating discussions with business and IT stakeholders.
• Experience working in a multinational or multicultural environment.

Technical Knowledge

• Good knowledge of IT Governance, IT Audit, IT Risk Management, Compliance, and Information Security principles.
• Working knowledge of IT infrastructure and business applications.
• Understanding of audit remediation methodologies, risk assessment, control frameworks, and corrective action planning.
• Familiarity with risk and governance frameworks and industry best practices.
• Certifications such as CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, or CISSP would be an advantage.