Senior Associate-IT Advisory job at Grant Thornton

JOB DETAILS:
Join Our Dynamic Team
Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organizations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firm. We are made up of over 73,000 people in over 150 countries. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, committed and highly talented individual for the role of IT Advisory Senior Associate for our Uganda office.

Overall Role: Senior Associate-IT Advisory
The Successful individual 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.

Essential 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

The Ideal Candidate Should Have:
• 5+ years of experience in the advisory/consulting space.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT/ B. Tech Computer Science
• 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.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Suitable and qualified candidates should apply through https://www.gtuganda.co.ug/en/careers/ and send  CVs ONLY to recruitment@ug.gt.com by Sunday May 26, 2024. Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted.