Team Member, Core Banking Applications Audit at United Bank for Africa (UBA)

Job Objective

• To implement the Bank and Audit Division’s mandate relating to review and assessment of controls over the information systems, safeguard the Bank’s assets, ensure the completeness and accuracy of transaction records; and prevent/detect incidences of related frauds and irregularities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate in process reviews/redesigns as well as systems upgrade/implementation efforts to ensure that appropriate system controls considerations are effectively taken on board and implemented.
• Identify the relevant role players in accordance with business requirements and dependencies.
• Identify risk areas and recommend appropriate internal controls and ensure they are implemented in the process design/ review.
• Assess adequacy of security and control built into the bank’s IT architecture.
• Review adequacy of security and controls built in architecture of various applications.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Team Lead, Core Banking Applications.
• Perform all assigned tasks from supervisor as and when due.
• Render technical support to other departments in Group Internal Audit.
• Respond to technical support/requests from other departments in Group Internal Audit upon approval of the Head, Information Technology & Digital Banking Audit.
• Participate in the regular audits of applications and operating systems as assigned by Team Lead.
• Carry out periodic audits as stated in the audit plan in a timely manner.
• Submit well-written report to the Team lead upon conclusion of the audit.

Requirements

• First Degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Accounting or any other numerate discipline.
• Relevant professional certification e.g. CISA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CISSP and MBA etc will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3 years work experience required

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Knowledge of banking operations, policies and procedures.
• Interpersonal skills and Communication skills (written and oral).
• Information Technology proficiency.
• Integrity.
• Good investigative skills.
• Good numerate and analytical skill.
• Structured Query Language (SQL Navigator).
• Audit Command Language (ACL).
• Unix operating systems.
• Business Objects (BO).
• FTP – file transfer protocol.
• Microsoft Office tools.