IT Audit Team Leader

Role & responsibilities

Job Description:

You are Responsible for

An IPE/ITAC Specialist focuses on ensuring the reliability of system-generated data and

automated processes that are crucial for financial reporting and operational integrity.

1. Control Testing & Evaluation: Perform detailed design and operating effectiveness

testing of IT Automated Controls (ITACs) and review the completeness and accuracy of

Information Produced by the Entity (IPE) to support key financial controls.

2. IPE Validation: Execute procedures to validate the completeness and accuracy of

key system-generated reports (IPE). This involves testing the underlying data, report

logic, and parameters used for extraction.

3. ITAC Assessment: Analyze and assess the system configurations, workflows, and

automated rules that constitute the ITACs, ensuring they are functioning as designed

without manual intervention.

4. Documentation & Work Papers: Meticulously document all test procedures,

evidence, results, and conclusions in formal audit work papers, ensuring they meet

the standards required by both internal and external auditors.

5. Liaison with Business Owners: Collaborate directly with business process owners to

understand how IPE is used in their manual control activities and to confirm the

relevance of the data being tested.

6. Coordination with IT Teams: Serve as a key point of contact for IT departments to

obtain source code, system configurations, and other evidence needed for testing

and to discuss the technical aspects of control functionality.

7. Deficiency Identification & Reporting: Identify and document control deficiencies,

assess their potential impact on financial reporting, and clearly communicate these

findings to management and audit teams.

8. Remediation Management: Assist in developing practical remediation plans for

identified control gaps. Track the status of remediation efforts and perform re-testing

to validate that deficiencies have been resolved effectively.

9. Audit Support: Act as a subject matter expert during internal and external audits,

providing clear explanations and walkthroughs of IPE and ITAC testing processes

and results to auditors.

10. Inventory Maintenance: Maintain and regularly update the central inventory of all key

IPE reports and ITACs across the organization's systems, ensuring the audit scope

remains current with business process changes.

To succeed in this role you should have the following

• Prior Experience in IPE, IT controls testing.
• Extensive knowledge of the internal control framework (specifically COSO) and a solid

understanding of the concepts of control design and operational efficiency.

• Experience working in a dynamic IT environment similar to a high tech start-up.
• Experience of solving multiple and complex challenges.
• Exposure in audit planning and execution, controls operation, and handling audit queries

with external/internal auditors.

• Strong governance, risk and assurance management background which encompass

knowledge of corporate governance, control framework and risk.

• Aptitude for leading teams; influencing and galvanizing others to follow you toward a

solution.

• Ability to guide and train team members.
• Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills along with an aptitude for information technology.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Understanding of business drivers and related risk and ability to interpret the relevant

management information is appreciated.

• Good communication and Analytical skills
• Having risk and controls mindset
• Ability to challenge and open to different views and opinions.
• Self-starter and ability to manage diverse cultural/ethnic sensitivities.
• Ability to deal effectively with complexity and having focus to details.
• Ability to prioritize and ensure delivery of priorities.
• Quick learner and resilient

Mandatory Skills : Team Coordination, Leadership, sox, ITGC, IT Audit, IT Governance,

Information Technology, Communication Skills

Desirable Skills : IT Risk Management, Cobit, Cisa, Cism, Cissp, team leading, Risk

Compliance, Information Security, IT Risk.