Senior Analyst, IT General Controls, Audit Support & Strategic Initiatives

Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at https://www.lincolnelectric.com.

Location: Remote - Brazil, Guarulhos 
Req ID: 29709 

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Are you passionate about IT governance, controls, compliance, and driving continuous improvement? We're seeking a Senior Analyst, IT GRC, Audit Support & Strategic Initiatives to play a key role in strengthening our IT control environment, supporting audit readiness, and advancing strategic initiatives across our global organization.

What You'll Do

• Support SOX, statutory, internal, and external IT audit activities.
• Coordinate and review audit evidence to ensure completeness, quality, accuracy, and audit readiness.
• Assess IT General Controls and identify potential gaps, control weaknesses, or documentation concerns.
• Support user access reviews, privileged access reviews, change management reviews, and operational control activities.
• Maintain audit documentation, control narratives, evidence repositories, and audit request tracking logs.
• Partner with auditors and internal stakeholders to facilitate efficient audit execution.

Control Monitoring & Compliance

• Support reviews of IT, cybersecurity, compliance, operational, and business process controls.
• Document testing results and identify opportunities to strengthen controls and reduce risk.
• Track remediation efforts and monitor progress toward issue resolution.
• Assist in developing control-monitoring frameworks, templates, and reporting mechanisms.
• Analyze trends and provide actionable insights to strengthen governance and control maturity.

Strategic Initiatives & Process Improvement

• Support strategic projects led by IT GRC, Cybersecurity, and IT leadership.
• Develop documentation, project tracking tools, status reports, and executive-ready summaries.
• Identify opportunities to simplify audit support, evidence collection, control monitoring, and compliance processes.
• Build scalable, repeatable processes that improve efficiency and transparency.
• Leverage data and metrics to support decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with IT teams, control owners, Internal Audit, External Audit, and business stakeholders globally.
• Translate technical controls into clear, business-friendly language.
• Prepare professional documentation, presentations, and audit communications.
• Handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Business, Accounting, Risk Management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of experience in IT audit, IT compliance, IT risk management, cybersecurity governance, internal controls, or related fields.
• Working knowledge of SOX IT General Controls (ITGCs).
• Experience with access management, change management, operations controls, backup and recovery, and logical security controls.
• Experience managing competing priorities and driving work independently.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting audit readiness and control monitoring programs.
• Exposure to Active Directory, SAP Security, Identity & Access Management, or manufacturing technologies.
• Manufacturing industry experience.
• Experience with GRC platforms, audit tools, or workflow solutions.
• Professional certifications such as:
  • CISA
  • CRISC
  • CISSP
  • Security+
  • PMP

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.