Senior Associate, IT Assurance at KPMG

Job Summary

KPMG Nigeria is currently seeking an experienced Senior Associate to join the IT Assurance unit in addressing technology risks for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Deliver client facing projects across a broad range of IT audit clients in the Financial Services (FS) and Non-FS sectors
• Identify and communicate IT audit findings to senior management and clients
• Work with clients to assess their technology risk environment, the maturity of risk management processes and the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.
• Plan and execute the day-to-day activities of IT audit and advisory engagements for a variety of clients
• Evaluate the design and effectiveness of technology controls throughout business processes
• Supervise junior team members on engagements
• Build an understanding of client businesses and markets to assist in the development of new client opportunities
• Support the development of proposals
• Develop and maintain a positive, productive, collaborative professional relationship with the client and engagement teams to provide well-coordinated and consistent high-performance results
• Demonstrate a quality service mindset in cultivating positive relationships with the client’s personnel and inspiring their confidence by identifying potential business process improvements.

Requirements

• Minimum Years of IT Audit Experience: 4 – 7
• A minimum of 5 O’ Level credits at one sitting (including English and Mathematics)
• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of a Second-Class Upper Division
• Minimum 3 years post NYSC experience in IT audit/ compliance/ risk management 
• Relevant industry certification such as CISA, CRISC, COBIT5, ITIL, ISO or other specialised IT certifications
• Excellent technical skills and valuable experience in using data analytic & visualization tools such as SQL, Oracle, Python & Power BI 
• Ability to perform CAAT procedures using CAAT tools such as IDEA, ACL
• Strong controls testing and data analytic skills
• Strong Robotic Process Automation (RPA) skills and knowledge of RPA software such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere or other specialised tools
• Good knowledge of core banking applications such as Finacle, Flexcube,T24 and ERP solutions such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics
• Ability to identify and assess complex technology risks & controls, to relate them to the wider business environment and to express opinions clearly to all stakeholder levels
• A specialist understanding of IT risk & cloud, and its impact on the business control environment
• Technical Knowledge of IT audit methodologies and emerging technologies