Vacancies Senior IT Auditor

Job Description

As a Senior IT Auditor at AkzoNobel, you will be important in providing valuable and objective insights to improve the company's governance, risk management, and control activities. You will be responsible for leading, coordinating, and executing internal audits, as well as advising management on potential risks and suggesting improvements to internal controls. Working within a highly international and diverse audit team, you can assess the internal control framework across various processes. 

As a Senior IT Auditor, you will often be involved in these types of audits:

1. Information Technology audits on existing environments and new projects/technologies.
2. Business Process audits focusing on SAP configuration controls, access rights, and obtaining process insights based on data analytics.

Job Requirement

• Lead or participate in internal audit assignments globally according to the Internal Audit Methodology. 
  (The lead auditor role involves leading the audit team and supporting the audit assignment manager in the overall execution of an audit. As a Senior Auditor, you are expected to lead your first audit within 
  6 months of appointment and thereafter, lead more than one audit per quarter.) 


• During audit preparation - Provide input for the audit scope and information gathering process, set up and conduct interviews with the audit client, and document the preparations.


• For business process reviews, liaise between the Operational Auditors and the Data Scientist to ensure that fit-for-purpose data and process insights are available.


• During audit execution, review assigned process, identify risks, test key controls, assess the impact of control weaknesses, write audit observations, and present conclusions.


• During audit finalization, complete audit documentation, update observations and actions, provide inputs to the audit report, facilitate the resolution of management comments, and follow up on actions.


• Stay relevant and current on audit knowledge and expertise.


• Collaborate and share knowledge within the internal audit function.


• Assist internal audit management with functional activities and continuous improvement initiatives outside of audits as needed