Pride Microfinance Limited (MDI) (Pride) is the leading Microfinance Deposit Taking Institution in Uganda with 37 networked branches and 7 contact offices countrywide; regulated by Bank of Uganda under the MDI Act, 2003 and is in the transformation process to a tier 2 by December 2024. Pride is an equal opportunity employer looking for competent and experienced individuals to fill the following positions: –

Senior Internal Auditor-IT

The Senior Internal Auditor -IT reports to Audit Manager IT, the Senior Internal Auditor -IT is responsible for providing assurance audits on risk, governance, and control of the Bank’s Information Systems to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Bank’s Information Systems & Infrastructure.

Key duties and Responsibilities:
• Identify business objectives, understand risk inherent in activities to be audited and develop audit plans in assigned audit engagements.
• Perform field work and prepare quality working papers in compliance with audit standards and policy.
• Provide input in developing appropriate audit tests aimed at addressing identified IT risks and achieving the desired audit objectives to provide assurance that IT risks are effectively managed or mitigated.
• Conduct all assigned audits end-to-end; including planning, evaluating and documenting the results, reporting and follow up in accordance with the annual audit plan.
• Providing input to the annual IT audit plan/strategy to be included in the overall departmental Risk Based Annual Audit Plan.
• Provide first level assurance services on all key levels of system development life cycle and acquisition process on all Information Technology System and modules being integrated into the Bank’s IT environment.
• Responsible for the identification of IT control gaps to mitigate frauds and loss of revenue

Minimum Academic Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Accounting/ Finance/ Statistics/ Economics
• For Candidates without IT degree qualifications professional qualifications in CISA/CISM/CRISC is a must.
• For candidates with Bachelor’s Degree in IT related field professional qualification in CISA, CISM, CRISC etc will be an added advantage.
• Job holder should have at least 3 years’ experience in IT audits