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Ref: OP957-15
Job description / Role
Objective:
• Execute & perform planned IT Audits of all divisions of Hamdan Group.
• Conduct IT audits to assess the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the established internal controls and procedures.
• Identify key areas of IT risk within the organization and purpose appropriate controls to mitigate the risk.
Job Description:
Plan Internal Audit Assignment:
• Quality and timeliness KPIs relating to Audit assignment.
• Engage with business to gain clea understanding of the control environment under review.
• Quality and relevance of audit assignment planning including links to concerns they may have major business and regulatory changes, alignment with major risk.
• Develop audit scope and objectives for each review and stakeholder concerns.
• Clearance of audit scope and objectives with management.
• Gain understanding of business and technical environment to enable identification of key risks to be reviewed during each review.
Execute Internal Audit Assignment:
• Perform audit fieldwork to assess the adequacy of control environments, risk management and control.
• Timely completion of annual audit plan, information and communication, and monitoring in the areas under review.
• Quality of audit documentations.
• Document fieldwork results and conclusions.
• Quality and relevance of audit issues raised and agreed.
• Identify emerging issues for consideration in reporting management actions.
• Flag potentially serious issues to audit and business management as they emerge.
• Conduct audit closing meeting with management to agree audit findings.
Reporting Internal Audit Reviews:
• Quality and timeliness of draft audit reports.
• Drafting audit reports for review by audit and business management.
• Timely identification / escalation of potential issues.
• Agree management action plans and target dates.
• Quality and timeliness of management action in audit documentation.
• Ensure all reported issues are evidenced in audit documentations.
Monitoring Management Action Plans:
• Monitor progress of assigned management actions plans resulting from audit reviews.
• Liaise with management to agree status of management action plans and updates PAWS actions tracking database accordingly.
• Quality and timeliness of action plan status updates.
• Where appropriate, contribute updates on management actions to IAM’s Monthly report to executive management.
Development and maintain Strong business understanding
• Proactive involvement in major business change initiatives.
• Develop and maintain a good awareness and understanding of key business, finance, regulatory and IT activities and risks.
• Develop and maintain a good awareness of significant development within the financial services industry.
Internal Audit Standards and Best Practice:
• Compliance with Hamdan Group, Internal Audit Policies & procedures, The IIA standards and ISACA standards.
• Develop and maintain strong understanding of IA process and procedures and apply these in the manual requirements execution of audit review.
• Own training and personal development plan.
• Develop and maintain good understanding of internal audit standards and best practice.
• Develop and own a personal development plan to support the above.
• Audit management satisfaction, interaction and feedback.
• Develop clear understanding of IA KPIs and metrics and achieve these in the execution of audit reviews.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting / Computer science or equivalent or professional qualification as CISA. Held a position in IT audit function of a multinational for at least 5-8 years;
• Operating Systems auditing skills such as Windows /Unix/OS400.
• Databases auditing skills such as SQL server / oracle.
• LAN/WAN network equipment’s auditing skills, such as routers, firewalls etc.
• Good audit knowledge of financial applications and Enterprise Resource Planning Packages (ERP) such as Oracle financials or SAP.
• IT Applications, hardware network, SDLC & proficient English Language.
About the Company
Hamdan Trading Group is part of one of the largest corporate conglomerates from the Sultanate of Oman the Hamdan Group. The group commenced its business operations in the year 1975 and has mirrored the growth of the Sultanate of Oman and contributed significantly to the Omani economy.
Today the group has more than fourteen well organized and diversified business units each establishing a benchmark in its own field. Hamdan Trading Group consists of three core divisions of business of the Hamdan Group Viz; Transport, Heavy Construction and Dunlop Agency.
The Transport Division is one of the largest and oldest in the Sultanate having the most diverse fleet. The most challenging and complex logistics requirements have been fulfilled by the division and has been awarded ISO certification.
The construction Division is engaged in large scale Civil and Private construction activities across the Sultanate employing over 300 full time workers.The Dunlop agency of Hamdan Trading Group is the sole distributor of Dunlop Tires across the Sultanate of Oman and it has currently 12 branches strategically located for the convenience of the customer and many more branches are in the pipe-line to be opened soon.