Job Title: IT Audit Officer (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: I&M Bank Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Manager IT Audit
About Organisation:
I&M Bank is a leading banking and insurance group in Eastern Africa with a presence in Kenya, Mauritius, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. I&M Bank Uganda is a commercial bank headquartered at Kampala Road plot 6/6A with a growing regional presence. The Bank offers a wide range of commercial banking and financial products and services, and prides itself on introducing innovative products and services based on the needs of its customers.
Job Summary: To conduct IT & cyber risk management, IT audits of the Bank’s IT controls, operations, and governance processes. The IT Audit Officer will play a key role in ensuring the Information and systems security, efficiency, and reliability of the bank’s IT processes and systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review and evaluate internal controls and systems to determine their adequacy, efficiency and effectiveness in ensuring that the bank’s objectives are achieved in compliance with the applicable internal and external policies, procedures and laws.
- Assess client business processes, information systems and internal controls and conduct an IT Risk Assessment to identify and analyse threats and potential risks to the Bank’s IT assets to ensure the timely identification and reporting of any IT systems vulnerabilities.
- Conduct Information and Technology audits or advisory engagements (e.g. Technology Projects, Cybersecurity, IT Operations, Third-party Risk etc) as per the Annual Audit plan and in compliance with internal and external standards.
- Identifying business objectives, understanding risks inherent in activities to be audited and develop audit plans and risk control matrices as per the audit standards for the assigned IT audit engagements.
- Perform field work and prepare quality working papers in compliance with audit standards to ensure that sufficient and reliable evidence has been gathered as a basis for reporting.
- Discuss Audit observations and engage the Audit Clients to ensure timely provision of corrective actions and implementation timelines.
- Championing and assisting the department to leverage on deployed IT audit tools and technologies such as TeamMate and IDEA and drive the uptake of computer-assisted audit tools (CAAT) to analyse data for audits and providing support to all users when necessary.
- Collaborating with other departments to enhance IT processes, Systems, and safeguard data integrity.
- Keep track of emerging technologies in ICT and ensure that the bank has sufficient controls in place to mitigate against the associated risks.
- Conduct special tasks as requested by the Chief Audit Executive to support management to achieve its business objectives.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Computing, Computer Engineering.
- Professional qualification such as CISA, CRISC, CFE, CISM, CISSP, ISO27001, ISO20000 (or any equivalent). Other Certifications such as CIA, CDPSE, COBIT etc are an added advantage.
- Proficiency in data analytics technologies like IDEA
Work Experience.
- Minimum of two years’ relevant working experience in a commercially oriented organization within the field of IT Audit.
Key Required Competencies & Skills.
- Attention to detail
- High degree of Integrity and confidentiality
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of audit tools and techniques, including process mapping, control identification, analysis, and design of audit tests.
- Knowledge of IT security frameworks and compliance requirements.
- Knowledge in IT & Cyber risk assessment and control concepts /methodologies.
- Knowledge of information systems and corporate resource planning tools, and Data analysis.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 27th June 2025
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24