Job Openings at Airtel

What you will do

• Plan periodic reviews of the processes and procedures of the East Africa Opco's and the mobile services business to provide assurance on the internal controls and business/enterprise and operational risks.
• Review control mitigation plans of Functions and ensure adequate and prioritized management attention on remediating known issues and preventing recurrences.
• Ensure that issues arising from audit and other compliance reviews are well understood by all levels of management and staff and that learning on fraud and control issues are shared amongst relevant teams
• Lead the auditing process and successful completion of financial and operational audits.
• Draft audit comments and report issues to support findings identified during the fieldwork.
• Manage the partner associates and/or Airtel Audit staff during the auditing process.
• Interact with management to gather necessary information.
• Review and resolve problems faced by staff auditors and make recommendations.
• Perform various risk and control assessments.
• Perform and lead periodic assessment and testing of key controls.
• Train and guide the internal auditors.
• Ensure timely completion of audits and submission of reports.

You should possess the following qualities and experience;

• Must be ethical and be able maintain independence of internal assurance
• Ability to manage projects through prior planning and regular check points
• Ability to challenge the status quo by using concrete facts
• Relationship management of different stakeholders
• Report writing skills
• Communication skills

Technical requirements

• Minimum 6-8 years’ experience in Audit, Risk, Control and Compliance related roles.
• Experience in Telecoms/Service or Mobile or traditional Financial Services Industry added advantage
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent planning skills
• Hands on attitude
• Able to handle and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously
• High personal standards and results oriented
• Excellent interpersonal skills; stakeholder management and collaboration
• Excellent and effective communication skills, both written and oral

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What you will do

• Conduct periodic meetings with IT and Network Functional Heads, Country IT directors and other stakeholders in technology to understand the environment, address key audit findings and monitor implementation of management actions.
• Assist in creation of IT & Cybersecurity audit plan across Airtel Africa operating countries and lines of business.
• Execute the audit plan through performance of IT, Networks and cybersecurity reviews including but not limited to pre-implementation reviews, IT audits, Network security audits, application controls reviews, cybersecurity reviews (including but not limited VAPT and cyber-maturity reviews)
• Ensure that IT and Networks audit issues are well understood by all levels of management and staff and provide pragmatic and realistic recommendations.
• Prepare value adding audit reports post alignment with technology functional heads.
• Maintain a tracker of all IT and Network audit issues
• Perform a revalidation of audit findings marked as implemented by management and
• Prepare monthly control reports for the Executive Committee.
• Track major projects in IT & Networks that are key in closing control gaps.
• Maintain a calendar of Audit and Risk Committee meetings and consolidate information for reporting to the board on a quarterly basis.
• Keep abreast to changes in the business, IT and Network landscape through;
• engaging with other stakeholders in the industry
• Continuous learning and development
• Continuous research of new vulnerabilities, methods of compromise at all levels of an application stack and reviewing applicability to Airtel Africa
• Continuous learning of industry best standards

You should possess the following qualities and experience;

• Must be ethical and be able maintain independence of internal assurance
• Ability to manage projects through prior planning and regular check points
• Ability to challenge the status quo by using concrete facts
• Relationship management of different stakeholders
• Report writing skills
• Communication skills

Technical requirements

• 6 to 8 years experience at least 5 being in the IT and cybersecurity assurance space.
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Holder of a security certification (e.g., CEH, CISSP, OSCP)
• Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity and penetration testing tools and methodologies including but not limited to Application Security, Database Security, Web services security, Network Security, Mobile Security, VAS systems security, endpoint security and SOC systems.
• Strong and working knowledge and experience in data analysis
• Knowledge in IT and Telecom Infrastructure
• Experience working in information systems and cyber security assurance
• Experience in big 4 audit firms is an added advantage