Employer description & source details
Serve as the primary point of contact for software and vendor license audits initiated by third-party vendors or auditors. Coordinate cross-functional teams (IT, procurement, legal, finance) to gather required data, documents, and evidence for audits. Interpret requests from auditors and ensure timely, complete, and accurate responses while protecting the organization’s interests. Manage audit timelines and ensure audit activities are conducted efficiently and within legal and contractual boundaries. Maintain a current audit landscape profile of high-risk vendors (e.g., Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Adobe) and their audit practices. Develop and maintain an audit risk matrix based on vendor contract terms, license models, and past audit history. Identify vendors with potential audit exposure and proactively engage stakeholders to mitigate risk. Analyze software entitlements, deployment data, and actual usage across environments (on-premise, cloud, hybrid). Compare usage vs. entitlement to identify under-licensing, over-licensing, or misaligned deployments . Provide licensing expertise and interpretations of complex licensing models (SaaS, perpetual, subscription, consumption-based). Maintain audit documentation libraries including vendor correspondence, contract terms, deployment evidence, and audit reports. Develop and improve audit response templates, checklists, and workflows to ensure consistent and defensible audit responses. Support the creation and maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for audit handling and software license control. Partner with internal stakeholders to explain audit findings, recommend corrective actions, and support remediation. Deliver periodic reports and dashboards on audit status, exposure, and trends to executive leadership and com
Extracted skills: data analysis, excel, finance, project management