Job Description

About This Job

Nielsen’s Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) is a fast-paced, agile, and highly-selective team. CAS provides objective assurance over Nielsen’s reported financials and has reporting accountability to Nielsen’s management team, Audit and Risk Committee, and External Audit partner. As Nielsen is a global enterprise, CAS has audit responsibilities in over ~40 countries. Besides audit work, CAS engages in projects that support process improvement and critical strategic initiatives to support Nielsen.

We are seeking a proactive, highly technical IT Audit Associate to join our Internal Audit team during an exciting period of technology modernization and scope expansion. As Nielsen advances its digital infrastructure through cloud migrations, cybersecurity enhancements, and enterprise-wide initiatives like our SAP S/4HANA transformation, our audit function is evolving in tandem. This role offers a unique opportunity for an ambitious professional to truly build out the position, broaden our coverage across diverse technical domains, and make a high-visibility impact across the organization.

Rather than focusing solely on routine compliance routines, the primary driver of this role is broad, technical IT testing across our global environment. Operating independently within our core audit team, you will move beyond standard checklists to evaluate complex technical and cloud architectures, conduct operational IT audits—including cybersecurity reviews, network security assessments, and vulnerability management—and execute system conversion reviews. We are looking for an adaptable, forward-thinking self-starter who is highly comfortable with ambiguity, naturally curious about complex technical layers, and ready to help shape the future of our IT audit function.

Responsibilities

● Evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls by performing comprehensive IT audits, including planning, scoping, testing,



and drafting audit reports.

● Assist in operational IT audits beyond compliance, including participating in cybersecurity reviews, network security assessments, cloud architecture reviews, and penetration testing validation.

● Assist in pre- and post-implementation reviews for our ongoing SAP S/4HANA transformation by validating data migration integrity, security role mapping, and other critical implementation components.

● Execute end-to-end testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs) and ITACs across our current enterprise environments (including legacy SAP ECC), focusing on streamlined testing during critical roll-forward periods.

● Partner with business and IT stakeholders to conduct deep-dive process reviews and document "as-is" workflows for newly implemented or changing business environments where clear instructions or historical documentation may be missing.

● Participate in scoping and designing new audit procedures from scratch for emerging business areas or systems where a pre-written audit program does not yet exist.

● Identify control deficiencies, operational bottlenecks, inconsistencies, and/or incidents of fraud, and assist in drafting pragmatic recommendations for process owners.

● Present findings and recommendations to senior leaders, partnering with the business to develop remediation plans and support best practice sharing.

● Provide independent assurance on business compliance with policy, governance, and internal controls.

● Contribute to audit process efficiency by leveraging AI tools, automation routines, and data analytics to streamline testing workflows.

● Collaborate with the financial audit team to identify manual testing bottlenecks and find opportunities to streamline audit workflows across departments.

● Work on high-impact projects related to process improvement, analytics, and risk assessment, embracing an analytical mindset to evaluate emerging business risks.

📌 Corporate Audit Staff II (Mumbai)
🏢 The Nielsen
📍 Mumbai