Intern – Internal Audit and Financial Advisory – Technology
- Intern for Internal Audit & Financial Advisory – Technology (IT Audit)
- As an intern for IT Audit, I was staffed on three client projects in which we reviewed each client’s IT applications, their uses, their controls, and tested these controls in order to affirm proper usage. For publicly traded companies, we were tasked with ensuring SOX compliance.
- One project that I was staffed on was for a utilities company. This company has recently merged from being two separate companies, a water company and gas company, into one larger utilities company. They had somewhat merged most of their control testing and IT policies into one, but some of their applications were still being tested under separate policy documents. I was tasked with optimizing this company’s controls, so that the company no longer performs redundant testing procedures while maintaining SOX compliance.
- Many topics that I most recently learned in Cloud Architecture, User Experience Design, and Data Analytics were incredibly useful throughout my internship. I performed an audit regarding 20+ computer servers, their backups, where they are in the world, and how they are used to secure data, which is what I had just learned my previous semester in Cloud architecture. Agile project management, as well as the 5 why’s were two topics that I learned in User Experience design that I used daily throughout my internship. My MIS background prepared me greatly to have background knowledge of the IT systems I was auditing, as well as understanding the business aspect of my position. I met with real clients weekly, having conversations with CTO’s and CSO’s regularly. I feel my MIS background was integral for my success throughout the internship.