Vacancy title:
Senior Auditor Digital Services

Jobs at:
MTN-Uganda

Deadline of this Job:
28th March 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Reports to: Senior Manager-Internal Audit

MTN-Uganda is the leading telecommunications Company in Uganda, providing payphone, fixed lines, fax/data, internet and mobile services.

Job Summary: The Senior Auditor Digital Services is primarily responsible for performing company-wide assurance reviews of Digital services and working closely with management to ensure that control weaknesses are resolved and recommendations are implemented.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Formulate a digital services assurance framework supporting the identification & measurement of key risks and mitigating controls for critical digital services and the review of these controls for adequacy & effectiveness
• Establish a Digital Services Controls Monitoring Dashboard and timely periodic reporting on key controls supporting digital services offering
• Carry out enterprise wide digital services risk assessments and maintain updated registers of these risks
• Perform root cause analysis of fraud & revenue leakages affecting digital services offering to ensure required improvement or resolution of weaknesses
• Tasked with planning and Execution of scheduled audit engagements on digital services offering including gaming, entertaining & financial services among others
o Reviews functions and activities to determine the nature of operations, procedures, and related internal control to achieve established objectives;
o Determines the scope, nature and timing of audit activities;
o Designs audit procedures and programs;
o Holds opening conferences to communicate with auditees on issues related to the audits;
o Prepares audit planning memoranda for the supervisor’s approval;
o Execute audit tests to determine the effectiveness of internal controls underlying various digital services
o Engage management and agree mitigating actions to resolve key control issues
o Prepare engagement reports for audit engagements executed
• Continuously engage management in the resolution of identified control weaknesses and periodically report on the status of issues resolution.
• Performs pre and posts products assurance testing to ensure that digital products and services have sound controls to mitigate against fraud, regulatory, revenue leakage and related inherent risks
• Work closely with IT business partners to ensure full understanding of data flow, data integrity and system security underling digital services
• Represents Business Risk management on organizational project teams and tenders related to the delivery of digital services
• Coordinate audit reviews on digital services by external reviewers and facilitate issues assurance initiatives

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• The ideal candidate for the MTN Senior Auditor Digital Services job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field such as BSc (Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering), Computer Engineering, Telecommunications; or Computer Science with strong liking for engineering; statistics, commerce or the equivalent
• Possession of a post graduate qualification such as CISA, CIA will be an added advantage
• At least five years of in a digital & financial services sector, at least three years in external or internal audit specializing in business process & technology assurance with a reputable organization.
• Proficiency in the use of auditing software, data analysis automation such as ACL Audit Exchange
• Sound knowledge of information security risks & controls knowledge
• Broad working knowledge of auditing techniques and standards
• Previous Technology & Products risk assessment experience
• Strong experience in performing and leading technology risk assessments as well as development and execution of audit plans
• Prior exposure and experience working with management at all levels
• Experience in products design & development in a telecom environment is added advantage
• Additional Training in Internal audit , Data analytics, Risk assessments , Process Assurance
• Considerable skill in assessing the effectiveness of internal controls, identifying significant exposures, analyzing and detecting changes in key risks and/or control effectiveness.
• Skill in developing appropriate recommendations to address exposures.
• Considerable skill in planning and project management, and in maintaining composure under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines.
• Proven ability to learn new operations quickly and work independently a must.
• Requires a conceptual knowledge of aspects of IS, process and products auditing
• Conceptual knowledge of digital services and inherent risk exposures.
• Ability to formulate an audit program with appropriate testing mechanisms, execute the audit program, recognize control weaknesses, assess the materiality of these weaknesses, and relate them back to the scope and objectives of the audit.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, (i.e. active listening skills and presenting findings and recommendations).
• Ability to establish and maintain harmonious working relationships with co-workers and external contacts.
• Demonstration of positive independent attitude and team spirit
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines.
• Good with fraud detection and control
• Excellent negotiation and problem solving abilities
• Good reporting skills
• Highly developed stakeholder relations management
• Possess strategic thinking abilities
• Good listening skills
• Highly developed customer focus
• High levels of Integrity & trust
• Highly action oriented persona
• Possess a drive for results
• Negotiation & Leadership skills
• Strong statistical and analytical skills
• Facilitating and presentation skills

NB: Please note that presentation of false academic documents and certification will lead to criminal prosecution.

Job application procedure
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their Job Applications with detailed CVs, certified copies of academic certificates (originals are to be presented at the interview) and names and addresses of three referees addressed to the: Recruitment Officer, MTN- Uganda, P.O. Box 24624, Kampala, Uganda