Information Technology Audit Manager

Role overview:

The Technical Audit function is responsible for executing and championing best practices in audit governance, developing robust audit plans, and providing concise, insightful audit results to the Board Audit Committee and Senior Management. This function leverages data analytics to highlight audit issues and prepare summaries that help the Board and Senior Management understand and better manage risks.

The successful candidate will be future-oriented, energetic, a team player, and data-analytics-driven, contributing to the organization’s proactive risk management and audit strategies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop the audit plan in collaboration with business units, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and identifying potential gaps in controls, processes, and compliance.
• Perform audits, including planning, fieldwork, and reporting, ensuring compliance with IA methodology and quality standards.
• Partner with business units to close identified gaps by developing or enhancing policies, procedures, and controls that improve the overall control environment.
• Communicate audit opinions, findings, and recommendations clearly to relevant stakeholders.
• Lead closing meetings to discuss findings and recommendations with auditee management.
• Monitor and escalate overdue audit issues to business managers for timely resolution.
• Identify and escalate significant risks and issues to the Head of Internal Audit.
• Stay informed about changes in business risks and external factors to improve audit planning.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, group values, and ethical conduct in all audit activities.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders during audit assignments.
• Perform ad-hoc audits or investigations as requested by the Head of Internal Audit.

Job requirements:

• Possess a Bachelors' degree with a major in Computer Science, MIS, Finance, Business Administration, or an equivalent education.
• Examples of IT related certifications as listed by BNM in payment services regulatees (PSRs) such as such as CISA
• Have a minimum of 5 years of professional services assurance and/or IT auditing experience and a strong knowledge of internal control principles (e.g. COSO, risk-based auditing & etc.).
• Good knowledge and background in local regulatory requirements (e.g. BNM RMiT, PayNet procedures and guidelines) and understanding of key risks involved.
• Have working experience and a sound understanding of digital financial services/managed services/advertising and their operations, relative risks and regulatory and other external factors facing the organization.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-motivated achiever, with the ability to work with minimal direction.
• Well versed with MS PowerPoint and data visualization tools (MS Power BI, Tableau) for presentation materials to the Committee/Management as well as for data analysis work.