Internal Audit - Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

• A career within Internal Audit services, will provide you with an opportunity to gain an understanding of an organisation’s objectives, regulatory and risk management environment, and the diverse needs of their critical stakeholders.
• We focus on helping organisations look deeper and see further considering areas like culture and behaviours to help improve and embed controls. In short, we seek to address the right risks and ultimately add value to their organisation.

   Job Summary

• The candidate will work in the technology stream of the IA team in PwC Nigeria to lead technology audits and deploy audit analytics and make presentations to internal/external clients at as required.

Job Responsibilities/Requirements

• Demonstrate skills and audit experience across a number of focus areas, such as Systems Audit, Information Security, IT Infrastructure reviews (servers, networks, routers, e.t.c), IT Governance, IT Operations, IT Resilience e.t.c
• Conduct audits or lead audit teams in performance of IT audits and reviews of systems, applications and IT processes
• Excellent knowledge of ACL application in data interrogation and analytics including writing of ACL scripts.
• Moderate to advanced proficiency in the development of analytics/scripts for meeting audit objectives
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills in areas such as data analysis, machine learning and visualizations, leveraging tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau, R, Galvanize, Idea and Power BI
• Extensive experience with performing data extraction, cleansing, transformation and analyses from a wide variety of data sources
• Design and develop data analytics routines/scripts and processes to support internal audit activities and processes
• Use data analysis tools to create repeatable data analytics scripts to support continuous auditing of critical KRIs, KPIs and audit tests for our clients
• Ability to automate and develop dashboards for monitoring and reporting
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the technical and functional requirements of audit software e.g. TeamMate, Galvanise, CURA, Isometrix, PentanaMK (MKinsight), etc.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of business issues across multiple industries and the relevance of technologies with a view to identify, pursue, and ultimately win business opportunities for internal audit practice in PwC
• Demonstrate extensive project management skills especially in the application and adoption of technology to enable the activities of internal audit clients of PwC
• Ability to support a series of high-profile co-source or outsource audit engagements across industry sectors
• Ability to multitask across various projects and deadlines
• Ability to develop and deliver technical and functional trainings on audit analytics solutions as required; to enhance the broad understanding and use by clients
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for audit reporting/discussions with internal and external stakeholders
• Report writing, presentation and inter-personal skills including good written and oral communication skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Second-Class Upper Bachelor's degree
• Degree Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Audit, Finance, Accounting or related field
• Certification(s) Required: CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, ACA or any relevant certification
• Candidates should have at least 4-6 years of experience within Internal Audit functions ideally, or professional services / audit firms.
• Candidate must have in-depth experience of Technology processes and Technology Risk Management
• Consulting background will be an added advantage.