Senior Associate – IT Advisory Jobs – Grant Thornton

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Job Title:   Senior Associate – IT Advisory

Organisation: Grant Thornton

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About US:

Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organisations of independent assurance, tax, and advisory firms. We are made up of over 56,000 people in over 140 countries. Our Vision is to become the most valued network in the profession by 2025.

 

Job Summary:  The IT Advisory Senior Associate will be responsible for planning engagements, supervising staff, and executing IT Risk Advisory, IT Risk Management, Application Controls Security Assessments, ERP Functional and Security & Controls, Embedded Risk Management, and other IT Audit projects as needed.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Manage delivery of timely engagement results and high-quality deliverables in accordance with professional and industry standards.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and identify technological and operational risk mitigating opportunities as a first-choice advisor.
  • Supervising, training, and mentoring staff level personnel and coordinating with client resources as needed
  • Establishing performance expectations for staff level personnel and providing performance feedback.
  • Developing and managing the execution of IT Risk Assessments in conjunction with the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management governance structures/programs and the develop of client annual audit plans.
  • Developing leading practice IT integrated Internal Audit Methodologies, for internal use and client service delivery.
  • Developing and leading ERP (e.g., SAP B1, SAP ECC, Hana, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Microsoft Navision, Finacle) advisory and assurance related activities, which may include business process improvement, Security risk & controls review, SoD analysis, SoD conflict management design, and application security assessments.
  • Identifying opportunities within current engagements to expand the scope of services rendered and the ability to be market facing to identify and potentially pursue new client prospects.
  • Partnering with financial audit teams to effectively integrate and coordinate appropriate IT General controls testing procedures in accordance with ISA 240 and ISA 315





Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in IT/ B. Tech Computer Science
  • At least five years of experience in the advisory/consulting space.
  • CISA [mandatory requirement), CEH (added advantage)
  • Understanding of control concepts/frameworks (e.g., COBIT 4/5, NIST 800.53, COSO, ISO/IEC 27001 etc.)
  • Knowledge of frameworks such as GTAG and Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions and prior implementation of cost-effective approaches for achieving IT compliance.

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates should apply through Click Here and send  CVs ONLY to recruitment@ug.gt.com

 

Deadline: 26th May 2024

 

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Date Posted 2024-05-15T06:57
Valid Through 2024-05-27T00:00
Employment Type FULL_TIME
Hiring Organization Grant Thornton
Job Location Kampala, Kampala, Kampala , 0256, Uganda

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