IT Audit Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and perform audits of general and application information technology controls to support statutory audits.
• Conduct IT audits of both financial and other systems as part of internal audit services for clients, including audits over both system development and data management procedures.
• Review IT control design and operating effectiveness.
• Assess the risks associated with a company's information technology systems, as part of statutory audit and internal audit.
• Recommend design and implementation procedures to mitigate these risks.
• Extract and process different types of datasets for analysis and audit tests.
• Support the IT audit team with project management tasks.
• Prepare detailed working papers and supporting documents.
• Report key findings and outcomes of the assessment of the business and IT risk environment and its related controls.
• Communicate audit findings to management and other stakeholders (Audit Committee).

Requirements:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in IT
• At least 5-6 years’ experience in IT audits and security management
• Professional qualifications such as CISA or other IT security certifications.
• Able to appreciate business process issues and understand business transaction scenarios, and how an application system can support them
• Basic understanding of ERP configurations e.g., SAP, Oracle, Navision.
• Good appreciation of fundamental accounting knowledge and/or audit knowledge and financial controls
• Good grasp of IT technical concepts, e.g., Operating Systems (Unix, Windows, OS/400, etc), Databases (Oracle, SQL, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Logical thinking, good attitude, fast learner and good team player
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines