Central Bank Of Oman Requires a “ Senior Information Technology Auditor “ (Position Reference No. : HRMD/IAD/1/2009)

Applications are invited for the post of Senior IT Auditor for the Internal Audit Department of Central Bank of Oman (CBO).

Key Duties & Tasks:

• Performing IT audits as per the annual audit plan approved by Audit Committee to ensure that risks and controls have been identified and correctly assessed.
• Working as an audit team and ensuring audits progress as planned, as regards scope, budget and timetable.
• Continuing to update awareness of IT risk issues and changes across relevant business areas and using this knowledge to set strategy and direction for IT Audits.
• Promote and incorporate the use of CAATs and other automated tools into integrated audits to improve fieldwork efficiency and depth of coverage.
• Providing guidance to Audit staff on IT issues during their assignments.

Required Qualification & Experience:

• The candidate should have Bachelor’s Degree in Computers or any other recognised equivalent professional auditing or accounting & finance qualifications
• The Candidate should have minimum Certified Information and Systems Auditors (CISA) certification and hands on experience of using CAAT.
• Certifications like CIA, CISSP or CEH will be an added advantage
• Prior experience of about 5-10 years of working as Information Systems Auditor with an emphasis in systems and workflow analysis in Financial services industry along with excellent understanding of databases
• Candidate should be fully conversant with the risk based IT audit concept and have worked in an environment, where best practices are implemented
• Excellent understanding of application architecture and risks associated with complex financial systems with identification of weaknesses.
• Deep Understanding of the control, regulatory and risk issues in IT infrastructure security, Treasury, Credit and Finance.
• Broad IT security/control experience of various OS and databases.

Appointments will be on contractual basis, renewable yearly. Salary and other emoluments will depend on qualification, experience and accomplishment of the candidate.
Interested candidates fulfilling the above requirements are invited to submit their applications along with detailed CVs and copies of their qualifications, indicating the position reference number, to the following address latest by Tuesday, 21st of April 2009:

Note: Applications that do not meet the requirements and those received after the above-mentioned date will not be considered.