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Senior Group IT Audit Manager

Woking, Surrey

£73,000 - £90,000 + Generous Bonus and Benefits Package

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The role of the Group Senior IT Audit Manager is to provide strong support to the CIA in carrying out the global role of leading, directing, co-ordinating and providing professional guidance to the Group’s Internal Audit functions regarding IT-related audits.

Key Purpose Statement

•To ensure that Internal Audit’s IT audit activities are conducted consistently across the group and in accordance with the requirements of: the IIA; ISACA; ITIL; ISO 27000:2009; and best practice programme management principles (e.g. PMBOK, Prince, MSP)

•To ensure the department’s Group IT audit activities are coordinated to ensure appropriate quality and coverage and to support country specific IT audit departments to do the same.

•To ensure that a satisfactory level of internal control in the IT area (business and usual and business change) is maintained in all operations by appraising the effectiveness of procedures, systems and processes

Outputs and Accountabilities

The role of the Group Senior IT Audit Manager is to provide strong support to the CIA in carrying out the global role of leading, directing, co-ordinating and providing professional guidance to the Group’s Internal Audit functions regarding IT-related audits. The Group Senior IT Audit Manager is a key member of the HO senior internal audit management team, this being the CIA, the Group Senior Audit Manager and the Group Senior IT Audit Manager.

The Group Senior IT Audit Manager will have significant responsibility in the following areas:

•Develop and communicate a comprehensive set of annual IT audit objectives. These are to be based on a detailed group-wide IT risk analysis conducted in conjunction with key IT stakeholders

•Develop and execute a strategy via an annual IT audit plan to achieve those objectives, working closely with Hub audit functions and global stakeholders, by optimising and directing Group and co-sourced Internal Audit Staff

•Manage all global IT theme audits and provide regular updates of progress against the annual plan to the CIA

•Co-ordinate the planning, fieldwork and reporting of all Corporate Centre IT audits

•Providing the CIA with a ‘real-time’ view of IT risk levels across the Group

•Prepare / review reports of IT audit activities for subsequent transmission to senior management, hub FC&A meetings and the PLC Audit Committee

•Ensures the follow up of IT audit recommendations to establish that businesses achieve corrective actions within agreed timescales

•Liaise with large business transformation programmes to ensure IT risks have been properly addressed and adequate assurance is obtained to validate that

•Appraisal of IT audit skills sets across the Group and GIA department with recommendations to the CIA on the same

•Identification and delivery of IT-related training to both IT and financial/operational auditors

•Ensuring that latest thinking on ‘best practice’ IT audit techniques is identified, via benchmarking and market contacts, and is designed into the SABMiller IT audit approach as appropriate

•Involvement in the recruitment and training of Hub-level IT audit managers

•Maintain regular contact with Group and Hub IT management

•Maintain regular contact with Hub internal audit teams and other key stakeholders

•Co-ordinating IT audit coverage with the external auditors to maximise the leverage of the work performed by IA and minimise any overlap

•Provide leadership and direction to staff as required

•Represents the department at selected external forums / discussion groups

•Performs other duties as assigned

Competence Requirements

Knowledge and Experience Required

1. Good first degree essential, masters preferred
2. CISA / QiCA (or equivalent) professional certification essential
3. PMI / MSP (or equivalent) professional certification preferred
4. 10+ years of senior IT audit experience gained in one or more large scale international businesses essential (FTSE 100 preferred)
5. Operational IT experience preferred
6. Comprehensive knowledge of COBIT, ITIL, ISO 20000 and ISO 27000 series:2009
7. Strong knowledge of the methods for determining and evaluating IT risks
8. Solid actual experience with IT-enabled business transformation programmes
9. In depth knowledge of one or more ERP applications (preference for SAP)
10. In depth knowledge of network technology, one or more operating systems and/or databases preferred
11. Strong track record of influencing management at all levels and effecting value added business change
12. Extensive experience with reporting audit findings to different levels of management
13. Experience with managing multiple teams across the globe and at the same time
14. Experience with managing 3rd party specialists
15. Experience with integrated process-based audits where financial, operational and IT auditors work together to audit an end-to-end process.
16. Thorough knowledge of audit procedures, including the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Standards and Guidelines, and risk-based auditing techniques
17. Fluency in a second language (preference for Spanish)
18. Financially literate
19. High level of mobility (approximately 40% travel element to job)

Roles, Skills and Attributes Required

1. Exercise initiative and judgement in all aspects of work
2. Present a professionally competent and credible image to the business
3. Gain the confidence and respect of staff and of management at all levels
4. Establish and maintain effective working relationships throughout the organisation
5. Manage the expectations from the different stakeholders throughout the Audit cycle.
6. Gather, analyse and evaluate facts and prepare and present concise oral and written reports
7. Communicate clearly and effectively , both orally and writing
8. Develop, present and implement plans for Global Internal Audit coverage and related budgets
9. Supervise and motivate staff through proper direction and counselling
10. Management skills to ensure IT audit plan is executed as planned, on time and within budget.
11. Ability for having the high level helicopter view combined with the ability to drill down in the technical details.
12. Manage and implement change in Internal Auditing arrangements, efficiently, effectively and for the benefit of the organisation
13. Team player and leader
14. Honesty and integrity
15. Energetic with a practical, common sense approach
16. Potential to develop into more senior roles outside the department