Specialist Assurance Services

Our team offers our clients services relating to:

• assurance over contract and project management;
• procurement, including tendering;
• asset management;
• risk management practices;
• performance management and reporting; and
• sensitive and discretionary expenditure.

Specialist Assurance Services are generally contestable, and the team is required to undertake business development activities.

As an Assurance Manager your responsibilities will include:

• extending and/or developing new client relationships to generate new opportunities;
• providing support to our audit teams in our specialist areas;
• raising internal awareness of specialist assurance services;
• building internal relationships to ensure clients receive maximum benefit; and
• maintaining a high level of technical currency/expertise in core service line(s).

Your past experience will demonstrate:

• serving as a leading practitioner in a least one or two of our service lines;
• industry and public sector experience; and
• likely background as an engineer, project manager, assurance consultant, or chartered accountant.

We also have a rapidly growing Information Systems Audit and Assurance team.

Information Systems Audit and Assurance specialists

Your responsibilities will include:

• assessing the IS risks and controls facing our public sector clients;
• analysing clients' business systems and applications to determine if there are adequate safeguards for the processing and protection of data;
• providing support to financial auditors; and
• carrying out other assignments, such as the evaluation of computer systems in development, and providing assurance over major IS projects.

Your past experience will demonstrate:

• a minimum of five years' experience in computer auditing or IS risk management;
• a sound knowledge of technical computer concepts related to hardware architecture, databases, software and security; and
• experience in the evaluation of project implementation, knowledge of systems development life-cycle methodologies, as well as general IS Auditor (CISA) or security, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Page last updated: 25 September 2007