Description
Assignment Objective
To enable GIA’s strategy 2025-2027 a new operating model has been finalized. A specific Executive role has been established to look after Digital Transformation (including Information Technology and Data). A specific senior resource is required to oversee and manage the team and deliverables while elevating the assurance and insights to include strategic inputs and industry best practice.
Full Assignment Scope:
The resource will amongst others, but not limited to, be responsible for the following:
- Oversee and manage the portfolio and the team as well as senior stakeholders
- Ensure audit plan for remainder of 2025 is sufficient to discharge GIA’s function and duties
- Oversee, manage and review audits on the plan and ensure strategic insights and best practices are provided throughout the review (planning, fieldwork and reporting)
- Prepare Board reporting (and specifically Group IT Committee) where necessary for the CIA review
- Audits on the audit plan include IT (including traditional IT and non-traditional IT like Gen AI, Cloud), Cyber and data (data migration, data management and data infrastructure reviews)
Skills Required:
Seasoned Executive resource with at least 10 years’ experience is required with extensive experience in the following:
- Specialist / SME with IT, Cyber and Data experience.
- Banking (or similar) industry experiencing rapid change and innovation is required.
- Executive and Senior stakeholder engagements
- Audit and Board reporting and elevating outcomes with a strategic and industry lens and insights
- Managing a team at all levels with line manager responsibilities to be filled
Desired Skills:
- Audits
- Data
- Data Migration
- Ethics
- Financial Accounting
- Internal Audit
- Portfolio Management