Our client in the long term insurance industry is looking for a Specialist in IT Compliance to ensure that IT is compliant to best practices and take practical steps to achieve the objectives set out by the IT Steering Committee.

Responsibilities:
Software Licensing
• Consolidating and identifying an organization’s license entitlement
• Combining and normalizing inventory data from multiple sources
• Creating and managing a centralized view of an organization’s licensing renewals
• Reconciling an organization’s software installs and usage against the entitlement
• Working out upgrades, downgrades and technology guarantees
• Managing the compliance of the virtual environment
• Creating detailed management reports
• Compiling inventory and entitlement data
• Auditing and managing license agreements
• Responding to software audits
• Dealing with ad-hoc SAM requests
• License reconciliation against entitlement
• Compiling install and software usage data or
• Negotiate new software contracts and agreements
• Re-harvest unused licenses
• Optimize current entitlement allocation
• Completing projected license modelling exercises for internal projects and to meet organizational growth
• Identifying, implementing and managing software processes and policies around:
o Software requests
o Procurement of licenses
o Deployment of software
o End of life and technology refreshes

Change Management
• Chair the Change Control meetings;
• Ownership of the change management process;
• Ensure that only authorised changes are implemented;
• Assess the impact of changes before implementation;
• Veto changes where it negatively impacts the business

Audit and Security
• Ensure security audits are conducted;
• Conduct follow up on security assessments;
• Conduct follow ups on IT audits;
• Reports on security assessments and IT audits.

Incident management
• Ensure that an incidents are dealt with in a speedily manner; and
• Conduct post mortems on all major incidents.

Requirements:
• Matric
• National Diploma/Degree in IT
• ITIL
• Certified Software Asset Manager
• IT experience: 10 years
• Insurance industry experience: 5 years (advantage)
• Software Asset Management Experience: 5 years
• Have had exposure to Corporate financial insurance services industry
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• The ability to communicate at all levels using different channels/media.
• Report writing is essential.