#SGUnitedJobs Director, Audit & Compliance

Agency: Government Technology Agency
Job no.: JR-10000001405
Work type: Permanent/Contract
Location: Singapore
Categories: InfoComm, Technology, New Media Communications

The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. We also develop the Smart Nation infrastructure and applications, and facilitate collaboration with citizens and businesses to co-develop technologies.

Join us as we support Singapore's vision of building a Smart Nation - a nation of possibilities empowered through info-communications technology and related engineering.

GovTech is tasked with harnessing info-communications technology and related engineering for public sector transformation. The Governance Group within GovTech designs and implements progressive policies that continuously raise the technology standards and respond to the ever-changing nature of security threats. The group has also put in place an effective compliance framework and works with all government agencies to achieve this.

If you are someone with strong IT audit and compliance background and passionate about technology, looking for opportunities to work with a team of practitioners and leading industry experts at the Government level, we welcome you to join the Governance Group.

As Director, Audit and Compliance, you will be managing a team of audit professionals and tasked to lead the whole-of-government (WOG) IT audit and compliance management, covering over 100 government agencies.

What to Expect:

• Plan and develop the ICTSS Audit and Compliance capabilities for the Government
• Oversee all interactions with agencies, including briefings, audit fieldwork, management responses and follow-up actions to ensure timely execution of audit workplans.
• Plan, develop and conduct annual ICTSS policy compliance and process audits, as well as technical audits on critical systems and infrastructure.
• Review audit findings and assess agencies' and whole-of-government overall state of compliance and risks with the aim to identify weaknesses so as to inform policy development and central initiatives. Formulate mitigation plans and recommendations to improve state of IT compliance.
• Prepare and implement development plans to build internal capability in IT audit and compliance management. Promote best practices and raise organizational awareness on matters relating to Governance, Risk and Compliance.
• Plan, source and actively manage outsourced augmentation of internal capability, to deliver the committed deliverables.
• Undertake any ad-hoc projects or special reviews, which may include investigation, due diligence and advisory.
• Driving and implementing audit transformation initiatives via pilot projects, proof-of-concepts and build prototypes, especially in the area of continuous/anticipate auditing, and data analytics.

How to Succeed:

• Has tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or other related discipline.
• Possess professional certifications such as CIA and CISA.
• Has minimally 20 years' ICT experience, preferably with at least 10 years in ICT audit and/or compliance management positions.
• Strong strategic thinking and good understanding of IT management, technology and operations.
• Prior experience leading audit teams and conducting audit fieldwork and has good working knowledge and understanding of regulatory compliance, governance and internal controls.
• Possess strong leadership, negotiation and collaboration skills; able to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Experience in driving successful implementation of IT Audit-related transformation projects is highly desirable.
• Good written and verbal communication and presentation skills

Advertised: 07 Oct 2020
Applications close: 19 Nov 2020