Senior IT Auditor

AkzoNobel; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AkzoNobel seeks a Senior IT Auditor to provide objective insights to improve governance, risk management and internal controls across a highly international organization. You will lead and coordinate audits, assess processes including SAP configuration controls, and advise on improvements.

In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, to obtain fit-for-purpose insights and drive enhancements.

Qualifications

• Lead or participate in internal audit assignments globally according to the Internal Audit Methodology.
• Provide input for audit scope and information gathering; set up interviews and document preparations.
• Liaise between Operational Auditors and Data Scientist to ensure fit-for-purpose data and insights.
• Review processes, identify risks, test controls, and present conclusions during audit execution.
• Complete audit documentation, update observations, facilitate management comment resolution, and follow up on actions.
• Stay current on audit knowledge and expertise; share knowledge within the function.
• Collaborate with internal audit and assist management with continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in internal audits globally; ensure alignment with Internal Audit Methodology.
• Support audit planning, scope definition, and information gathering; conduct client interviews.
• Collaborate with Data Scientist to obtain useful data insights for process improvements.

Job description

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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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:

• Information Technology audits on existing environments and new projects/technologies.
• 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

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.