Job Opportunities at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• The role of the Technology Trainer (Senior) will work closely with our passionate Snr Developers and System Architects to develop and impart technical training with primary focus on Java technologies. The level of training will range from introductory to advanced. It will include learners from Graduate up to Snr Developers. In parallel to the training activities there will always be at least one technology research topic that will enable organizational technology innovation. The role requires a SME who understands and can apply the fundamentals of SOA and microservice architectures, demonstrable understanding of OO principles and methodologies. The Technology Trainer (Senior) must be a team player with the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues in formal and informal settings.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The successful candidate will be required to perform but not limited to the following key outputs in respect of the Enterprise Architecture Management portfolio:

• Develop training materials and prepare for sessions
• Deliver lectures, seminars, practical demonstrations, and fieldwork
• Define and mark assignments
• Check and assess work
• Act as a personal tutor to students
• Supervise learner’s research
• Taking part in organizational training and continuous professional development
• Carry out administrative tasks such as learner’s curriculum and schedule
• Read academic and technology leaders journals
• Write research proposals, papers, and other publications
• Attend and contribute to professional conferences and seminars.
• Learn continuously on the edge new technologies
• Lead the design and development of one (at a time) complex software engineering project
• Collaborate with senior technical professionals in building new technologies modules
• Provide training reports to Discovery management

Competencies

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:

• Passionate about upskilling and couching people, technology, and development
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and cope with multiple concurrent training activities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high-level requirements
• Self-starter who takes ownership and accountability, and can work with minimal supervision
• Strategic thinker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education and Experience

• Computer Science Master’s Degree (Doctor’s degree advantageous)
• Additional Certification / Degree for Instructional design or related qualification
• Part- or full-time lecturing / instructing experience for at least 5 years (5+ years Java systems development experience advantageous)
• Technologies knowledge: Spring/Spring Boot, Maven, Hibernate/JPA experience, Oracle, and PL/SQL knowledge (or similar SQL knowledge), Atlassian product stack, Formal modelling languages (UML, ArchiMate etc.), modelling tools (Enterprise Architect)
• Methodologies: Agile including Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development
• Advantageous: programming AND training experience

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Key Performance Area

Tasks

Strategic:
Build / maintain relationships with:

• Discovery Invest, Life, Employee Benefits, Insure, Corporate, Health, Vitality RSA, Vitality Group, VitalityUK
• Attend Audit Committee meetings to present audit observations and provide feedback on the audits.
• Attend Risk Committee meetings to gather issues that can impact an audit environment.
• Facilitate the maintenance of risk profiles (inherent & residual view of IT risks).
• Challenge risk management information received from the business and provide meaningful input to management on where IT risk management processes and controls can be improved.
• Responsible for the implementation of the Internal Audit plan with regards to assigned companies / areas.

Technical
Knowledgeable in some of the following areas:

• IT General Controls
• Application Controls
• Technical Infrastructure
• Data Assurance
• Project and Programme Management.
• Cyber and Information Security
• Perform Peer Quality Review Assessments.
• Perform maturity assessments based on the COBIT framework.
• Keep abreast with current trends and improve the audit methodology and approach.
• Liaison with peers on IT risk management, policies and execution strategies.

Operational:

• Scheduling and planning of audits, assignment of staff and review resource requirements.
• Defining the purpose, scope and audit approach of each audit for assigned areas of audit coverage.
• Agree audit scope with client and provide final engagement letter to Senior Audit Manager for approval and distribution.
• Ensuring that all risks are addressed for the specific audit engagements.
• Provide feedback to Senior IT Audit Manager on the planning, execution and reporting of the audits.
• Review and sign-off of planning, working papers and reports, and where required raise review notes for the work performed by Senior IT Auditors / IT Auditors (pertaining to Engagement Letters, APMs, system descriptions, walkthroughs, process flow diagrams, RACM, test procedures, working papers, reports and action plans).
• Address review notes raised by the Senior IT Audit Manager.
• Monitoring of the quality of work performed by the audit team and taking corrective action (where applicable).
• Provide training and supervision to audit team in order to ensure that that the required audit objectives are met and that adequate practical coverage is achieved.
• Assist Senior IT Audit Manager in developing the Audit Universe, Annual Internal Audit Plan, and the Three Year Rolling Plan.
• Monitor progress of audits against plan.
• Track progress /changes in business risks and align audit plan.
• Request feedback from management.
• Escalate cases where feedback is not received.
• Ultimately responsible for quality of audit files (Pentana or other).
• Proactively take on additional tasks as requested by Senior IT Audit Manager.
• Provide meaningful input and monitor the effective and timely implementation of management actions to address any control weaknesses identified through risk profiling, risk events and control self- assessment.
• Conduct a Quality Assurance review of audit files and finalise once comfortable.
• External audit – develop and manage the relationship with external audit as it pertains to the reliance on IT Audit work, data requirements and co-ordination of resources to deliver specific assurance for external audit.

Follow-ups:

• Follow up on outstanding audit issues and management actions.
• Preparation, submission and presentation of follow-up progress reports at risk and/or audit committees.  

People Management and Development:

• Self-development: studying, attending courses and chapter meetings.
• Day to day management of the assigned audit staff members and / or consultants / contractors.
• Assist with staff development so as to increase competence and delivery of the department.
• Determine personal development plans and training needs, as well as implementing career path plans.
• Manage staff productivity by means of timesheets and cost recovery from auditees.
• Manage Senior IT Auditors and other direct reports.
• Review feedback from management on performance of auditors (Senior IT Auditors / IT Auditors).
• Completion of mini-appraisals.

Reporting:

• Drafting and review of engagement letters and final reports for Senior Management review.
• Review of draft observations and forwarding these to business for comment.

Reporting to:

• Audit Committees
• Business Risk Committees
• Company Exco’s
• Management (detailed audit reports)
• CAE (where applicable)
• Preparation and submission of Risk and Audit committee reports / packs.
• Attending Audit and Risk Committee meetings, as and when required.
• Assist in periodic reporting on the status and results of the annual audit plan and the sufficiency of department resources.
• Ad-hoc reporting.

General:

• Stay up-to-date with Internal Audit profession and industry developments.
• Ongoing development and improvement of audit methodology.
• Travel if required.

Qualification:

The following qualifications are a requirement:

• B Degree or equivalent (and relevant) qualification.
• Honours / Masters (with Computer Science / Computer Auditing / Information Systems / Auditing as majors)
• CISA
• CA / ACCA / CIMA / CFSA / CPA / CIA / CISA / CISM / CRISC / CGIT  / CCSA (one or more of the afore mentioned is preferable)

Experience:

• 5+ years audit experience and 2+ years audit management experience.
• Solid IT audit experience with a broad range of exposure to all aspects of business planning, systems analysis and application development.
• Experience in conducting financial, operational or IT audits.
• Reporting to Audit and/or Risk Committees.
• Essential knowledge:
• Internal Controls
• Risk management framework (COSO)
• IT General Control reviews
• Application Control reviews
• Internal controls
• Corporate and IT governance
• IT Infrastructure technical knowledge (reviewing of databases and operating systems)
• CAATs / data analytics
• Cyber security
• Corporate governance principles
• Computer literacy