Specialist Internal Audit CAATS - Pretoria Verfied

Salary Negotiable Pretoria, Gauteng Pretoria, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 28-10-2014 11:17:33 AM
25-11-2014 11:17:33 AM
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Permanent opportunity for an IT Audit with solid experience and minimum 3 years management experience.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Assist the Senior Manager to effectively discharge his / her responsibilities by coordinating and managing the activities of the Information Systems Audit (ISA) team responsible for data mining, analysis and advanced script development for computer assisted audit techniques (CAATS) for the utilisation of general auditors
Research, develop and implement a robust continuous auditing programme
Manage the data analysts to ensure a climate of high performance and improve the operational effectiveness and personal development of the team members
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

Assist Senior Manager: IT Audit in the research, development and implementation of a robust continous auditing program
Build risk metric dashboards, control exception and trend reporting for each of the audit teams and applicable business units, leveraging existing data marts and reporting
Ensure that relevant data is secured and that confidential information is protected from unauthorised users
Facilitate customers' requests and tracking of progress
Actively develop and spec new continuous audit projects that will assist the audit team monitor controls
Uses rigorous logic and methods to resolve complicated technical problems with effective solutions, probes all fruitful sources for answers and detect hidden problems
Approaches problem solving beyond the obvious and ensures that the problems are resolved in a timely and concise manner
Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives
Perform assignment QA of projects
Provide guidance and support relating data analysis to general, performance and forensic audit teams and business
Manage the internal audit data repository
Contribute in evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, aggregate and analyse low-level information to a general understanding
Report on and communicate analysis and findings
REQUIREMENTS:

BCom Informatics / Internal Auditing or other relevant B-Degree
Minimum of 6 to 8 years data analytics and automated control design experience, with at least 3 years in a supervisory / managerial position
Must be proficient in using ACL AX, ACL Desktop, SQL, MS Excel, MS Access and MS Word
Exposure to the application of standards, best practices, guidelines and frameworks which governs the IT environment
Advanced experience in the development and maintenance of script and data interfaces
Sound experience in the application and use of applications with the aim to extract and convert data for use in CAATS
Audit experience relating to the management of technical resources, networks, telecommunication systems and application development