Audit & Governance Careers Advice
Welcome to the Careers in Group specialist job boards Careers Advice area. Here you will find hundreds of exclusive articles, information and resources about Audit & Governance jobs and the Audit, Risk, Compliance, Data Analytics, ESG and Cyber Security industries.
Browse through our articles to find advice on how to get started in Audit & Governance, tips for creating your CV, what to expect in Audit & Governance job interviews, skill-building articles to help you move up the ladder in your Audit & Governance career, and articles on how to balance your work & personal life, and grow your confidence both in and outside of the workplace.
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Posted on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For the past 16 years, CareersinAudit.com and the Careers In Group specialist job boards have commissioned bespoke annual research investigating different issues affecting professionals working in the Audit & Governance industries. The latest survey, conducted in partnership with Barclay Simpson , investigated the main reasons why Audit and Governance professionals around the world change jobs ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2025 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Since 2008, CareersinAudit.com and the Careers In Group specialist job boards have commissioned bespoke research looking at different aspects of the Audit & Governance industry and issues affecting professionals working in these areas. Our latest 2025 survey, conducted in partnership with Barclay Simpson , aimed to uncover the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on the Audit & Governance industry, ...
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Posted on Monday, December 2, 2024 by EY UK — No comments
Michelle is a senior manager in Audit; she’s passionate about promoting flexibility and empowering her team to prioritise their wellbeing. Discover how Michelle found flexibility and balance in her own role, and how she’s creating the same environment for others. Working at a global firm Michelle joined EY as a graduate in Aberdeen in 2011. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 by EY UK — No comments
Fabrizio is a partner at EY in Glasgow. Discover how he harnessed his language skills to take part in a life-changing secondment in Italy. Supportive teams Fabrizio is Italian and grew up in Scotland. He studied Accounting and French at university, and has always had a keen interest in both numbers and languages. He was initially attracted to EY due to our global scale and international exposure, ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2024 by EY UK — No comments
James is an assistant manager in Audit, currently on secondment in our Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) team at EY. Discover more about how James’ career has evolved, and how he’s combining his experience in Audit with his passion for sustainability. University and beyond James joined EY as a summer intern during his second year of university. After completing his degree, he was ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 16 Oct 2024 Welcome to Barclay Simpson’s 2024 Recruitment Market Update, which provides an overview of current recruitment trends and insights across the cyber security & data privacy sectors. Market Overview The cyber security and data privacy recruitment market continues to be subdued, with an uncertain economic and political environment dampening hiring intentions across many of the ...
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Posted on Friday, October 4, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to Barclay Simpson’s 2024 Recruitment Market Update, which provides an overview of current recruitment trends and insights across the internal audit & controls sectors. Market overview Following the trends established in 2023, the internal audit and controls recruitment market remained subdued through the first half of 2024. This is a consequence of the challenging economic and political ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We all have multiple ‘selves’ – just take a look at your social media identities in comparison to your LinkedIn profile! These many selves can all be genuine facets of the real ‘you’ – a healthy psychological modus, bringing to the fore, particular characteristics, to facilitate relationships and navigate your different stakeholder environments, as well as to ‘play’ and simply have fun. But which ...
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Posted on Friday, April 19, 2024 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Both internal and external audit, as well as compliance, assurance and risk-related careers can all offer a structured, hierarchical career pattern, at least up to a certain point. But in the twenty first century, our career working lives are longer than ever, we might wish to step off the ladder, pursue a zig zag career, or even pivot to a new role or sector. In Life Beyond Audit, we explore ...
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Prior to the IHR Awards 2023, Dario Cappelli, Sales Director at the Careers In Group met with Rebecca Foden, Head of Student Talent Attraction at EY, to gain insight about the shortlisted 'Use Of Technology' featured within their recruitment process. Rebecca has over 20 years of recruitment experience honing and mastering the art and science across world leading brands and managing the complete ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 by The Careers In Group — No comments
While focused on niche sectors of the employment and recruitment market, CareersinAudit.com and Careers In Group job boards and their users represent a small cross-section of the wider talent attraction industry. Diversity and Inclusion is just as important to specialist sectors as it is to the wider world of work. But what is diversity, why is it important for both business and talent ...
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Posted on Friday, February 9, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Delve into the dynamic world of audit, explore the importance of transferable skills, and share insights into key risks for 2024 in the tenth episode of Inside the Auditorium by Eames Consulting with guest, Keith Burns, Audit Director of IT Operations and Financial Crime for Santander. This episode explores: The acceleration of data analytics : Keith shares his view on the pace of change, with ...
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Posted on Monday, February 5, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Listen to an insightful dive into the future of AI in internal audit in the ninth episode of Inside the Auditorium by Eames Consulting with guest Shehryar Humayun, Audit Director for Models, Data and Applied Sciences at Lloyds Banking Group. This episode explores: Navigating the AI Landscape : Shehryar sheds light on the widespread adoption of AI, particularly Gen.AI and LLMs in organisations. He ...
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Posted on Monday, January 29, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Explore climate change, data analytics and AI in internal audit in the eighth episode of the ‘ Inside the Auditorium ’ podcast by Eames Consulting, with Imtiaz Hussain, managing director and deputy chief auditor for BNY Mellon. This episode explores: Navigating environmental and climate risks : Financial services has a responsibility to the environment, and internal audit plays a big part in ...
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Posted on Monday, January 22, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Delve into the untapped potential and unique skill sets that internal auditors bring to the table in the seventh episode of Inside the Auditorium by Eames Consulting with Ivan Martinez, Chief Audit Executive at Santander. This episode explores: Unlocking hidden potential : Ivan shares his perspective on how individuals transitioning from non-audit backgrounds often perceive internal audit as mere ...
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Posted on Monday, January 15, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Explore the secrets of success and opportunities in internal audit in the sixth episode of the ' Inside the Auditorium ' podcast by Eames Consulting with guest, Scott Strachan, Head of Audit at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). Scott joins Hazel on the podcast to discuss the role of internal audit in the investment management industry and the challenges and changes facing the ...
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Posted on Monday, January 8, 2024 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Unlock the future of internal auditing in the fifth episode of the ‘ Inside the Auditorium ’ podcast by Eames Consulting, with Aaron Brewer, the Chief Security Architect for Standard Chartered Bank. This episode explores: Support leadership and talent retention : Aaron shares his views on supporting team members in their career journey and the benefits of allowing them to explore external ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 4, 2024 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Updated, January 2025 Warning: New Year Resolutions Can Damage Your Health It’s always tempting to start the new year with a batch of resolutions – commitment to give up something undesirable or intention to do better in some way or another. Not only does it feel a very natural project to kick off a new chapter, it also often seems perfectly placed following the trials and tribulations, ...
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Posted on Monday, December 18, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the fourth episode of the ‘ Inside the Auditorium ’ podcast by Eames Consulting, Peter Jones, the Head of Data Analytics Audit for Legal & General, dives into the intersection of data analytics and internal audit. This episode explores: Synergy between data experts and auditors : Peter sheds light on how analytics can transform core processes and applying tools to discover new insights and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data is changing the way American businesses work. Skilled analysts can uncover meaningful patterns, insights, and trends from raw data using various statistical and computational techniques. This information is extremely valuable because it aids decision making and enables more accurate predictions. Data analytics techniques are widely used and play a crucial role in numerous fields, including ...
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Posted on Monday, December 11, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the third episode of the ‘ Inside the Auditorium ’ podcast by Eames Consulting, Andy Blight, Chief Auditor for Risk at Citibank, pushes us beyond the traditional boundaries of internal audit and offers a fresh perspective that will resonate with internal audit professionals. This episode explores: Longevity in Internal Audit : Andy emphasises the appeal of navigating challenges within the ...
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Posted on Monday, December 4, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The second episode of the ‘ Inside the Auditorium ’ podcast by Eames Consulting, discovers the business-critical role of the internal audit profession. This week, Hazel is joined by Sandro Boeri, a leader and audit specialist with an impressive career trajectory from head of audit, to audit recruiter and trainer and now head of culture assessment for Deutsche Bank and his new role as president of ...
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Posted on Monday, November 27, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to the first of the ‘ Inside the Auditorium ’ podcast series, created by Eames Consulting. The show unlocks the secrets of success in the internal audit profession and aims to spotlight big names and influencers within this industry, delving into their passion for the role and uncovering what makes their teams and organisations extraordinary places to work. Each week, Hazel Rowe meets ...
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Posted on Monday, October 30, 2023 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Let’s start with defining terms. Generation Z is perhaps currently somewhat less exalted than older siblings, The Millennials, but as progeny of the late nineties and early noughties, their time is now. Their storming of the workplace has commenced; reader, you may be one! While this is not an academic piece, I do hate generalisation, so I took some of the sweeping characteristics of googled Gen ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2023 by Blick Rothenberg for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
As a graduate, you will have a wide selection of options available to you. Understanding what the best choice is for your own personal career goals is no easy task. One thing many consider at this stage is the size of company they should join. Joining a mid-tier firm such as Blick Rothenberg can offer the best of both worlds. With a reputation of excellence among their clients, Blick Rothenberg ...
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Posted on Monday, October 23, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis moved the needle on the value placed on compliance across the world. Governments suddenly implemented new robust policies, and previously passive regulators began cracking down on breaches and anti-money laundering (AML) failings using new punitive measures – forcing compliance functions to increase their resources and widen their scope. Amid this ...
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Posted on Monday, October 23, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A career in regulatory compliance involves ensuring all relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards are adhered to. It’s a critical business function across many industries including: finance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and energy. If you’re considering working in this field, you’ll need to be detail oriented, analytical, a good communicator, and committed to upholding legal and ethical ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re considering a career in risk management, but are short on details, let’s break down the basics of what’s involved and how you can get started. What is Risk Management? Every organisation must navigate uncertainty in order to achieve its goals. And while the future is impossible to predict with total accuracy, potential risks can be identified, assessed, prioritised, and mitigated to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The United States journey to become a more environmentally sustainable economy has accelerated the growth of specialist fields within the business landscape – from renewable energy to sustainable finance. Meanwhile, traditional businesses and organisations have made huge strides in a bid to reduce the environmental footprint of their operations. Amid this drive to “go green” a new category of ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When you work in compliance, you’ll encounter a broad range of people ranging from your own colleagues to external regulators. Most of them will be courteous and cooperative, but in this type of work, conflict can arise when people don’t see eye to eye. If you’re new to compliance, here’s a guide on what you can expect, along with strategies for dealing with difficult people you might meet in ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 10 Oct 2023 In today's hyper-connected world, near constant digital threats make the role of a Cyber Security Manager more important than ever. Working behind the scenes, they safeguard sensitive information and protect organisations from malicious cyber-attacks that can be financially and reputationally disastrous. If you’re wondering how that works out in practice, let’s look at a ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 10 Oct 2023 If you’re considering a career in cybersecurity, you might have come across the terms information assurance and information security. While they sound similar, and the two concepts are certainly related, their scopes and perspectives are rather different. In this article we’ll look at information assurance and information security in more detail and outline what sets them ...
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Posted on Monday, October 9, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Getting any new hire wrong can have serious consequences. There’s the cost of recruitment, lack of productivity, cultural disruption, as well as the impact on team morale. However, this fallout becomes even more significant when you’re recruiting an auditor because they deal with sensitive financial information. Make a bad appointment and it could be your corporate reputation that’s on the line. ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Which Sector is the Best Fit for Your Auditing Career? Every organisation needs to ensure its financial records, documents, and processes are accurate, up to date, and compliant with all relevant regulations and internal policies. This makes the role of an auditor extremely important because the work they do reveals whether finances are healthy, internal controls are robust enough, and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re interested in a career where you can make a real difference, then you might be familiar with the term ESG which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. People who work in this field get a huge sense of reward from helping organisations transform their operations to make them more sustainable which benefits future generations. Those in positions like ESG Researcher and ESG ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the business world, external audit managers ensure financial records are transparent, accurate, and compliant. Diligent and meticulous, their work ensures the integrity of financial statements giving stakeholders the confidence they need to make well informed decisions. External audit managers shoulder big responsibilities, but it's a rewarding role that offers an interesting career path. If ...
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Posted on Monday, September 18, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Given the buzz around analytics, you might find yourself wondering if it’s a good career path. Jobs in this field are certainly well paid and plentiful, but is it right for you? What is Analytics? The nuts and bolts of analytics involves collecting and interpreting data to gain new insights and make better informed decisions. Data professionals use a variety of techniques and software programmes ...
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Posted on Monday, September 18, 2023 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Wellbeing matters. And, despite the article title, it’s not just all about ‘work’ wellbeing. The best way to think about your wellbeing is to take a holistic approach, integrating ‘work’ with the rest of life, to consider the myriad of interlocking aspects of welfare, health and happiness. But first, what do we mean by ‘wellbeing’ and why does it matter for auditors? Scan the internet and you ...
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Posted on Monday, September 18, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 18 Sep 2023 As society becomes more reliant on digital technology, cyber security continues to grow in importance. Organisations must ensure that they have the necessary safeguards in place to protect personal data, prevent cyber-attacks, ensure business continuity, comply with legislation, and maintain public trust. As one of the world’s leading economies, the UK has seen a huge rise ...
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Posted on Monday, May 22, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In a world that is increasingly shaped by ethical consumption and tighter environmental regulations, more and more organisations are taking sustainability seriously. Beyond the public rhetoric, businesses are proving actions speak louder than words by committing to new reporting frameworks and sustainability certifications as they look to retain customers, meet government targets, operate more ...
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Posted on Monday, May 22, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in internal audit requires a combination of technical, analytical, and soft skills, along with a commitment to ethical conduct and attention to detail. Interviews are designed to assess your skills, experience, and personality to ascertain whether you possess these desired attributes. If you’ve already secured an interview for an internal audit position, congratulations! However, the hard ...
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Posted on Friday, May 12, 2023 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The month of May is Internal Audit Awareness month. The brainchild of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), this is an annual, international celebration and promotion of, perhaps a lesser known, yet indispensable organisational function which spans an awe-inspiring plethora of career roles and occupations. Since external auditors are frequently cited and portrayed in the universal media (not ...
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Posted on Monday, May 8, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
ESG and sustainability matter because they contribute to the long-term viability, resilience, and success of businesses while addressing urgent global challenges such as climate change. What’s more, stakeholders increasingly want to work for, buy from, and invest in, companies that adhere to the ethical performance indicators contained within this framework. By integrating ESG considerations into ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Organisations face many different risks that can affect their performance and reputation, including: natural disasters, cyber security, fraud, and regulatory changes for example. Without effective risk management, hard-earned brand image can be lost over a single incident; hence why proper identification and contingency planning are so important. By anticipating what is coming down the track, ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The United States of America was built on a foundation of risk-taking – from the pilgrims sailing across the Atlantic to establish a new home there, to the pioneers who travelled west across the frontier. Fast-forward to the modern day and risk management has evolved into an indispensable discipline in the United States business landscape. This process of identifying, assessing and controlling ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Moving abroad means gaining fresh perspectives, making new contacts, sharing ideas, improving language skills, and immersing yourself in a totally different culture, which means working overseas isn’t just exciting, it makes you more employable too. This career boost applies universally and compliance is no exception. If you’re an established compliance professional or aspire to work in this ...
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Posted on Monday, April 17, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The term reputational risk refers to the potential harm to corporate reputation, brand image, or public perception caused by negative publicity, events, or actions. These risks have various sources, including product recalls, legal issues, data breaches, ethical violations, or negative media coverage for example. Successful business leaders understand that brand reputation takes years to build, ...
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Posted on Monday, April 17, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 17 Apr 2023 Cybercriminals don't discriminate: if you have money and/or digital data (usernames, passwords, documents, emails etc.) you’re a target. This means both public and private sector organisations are fair game as far as they’re concerned. Large businesses with bulging bank accounts and small businesses that lack the financial resources to deploy robust controls are obvious ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The emergence of three letters has thrust an organisation’s collective response to sustainability issues under the microscope: ESG (environmental, social, and governance). This isn’t another hollow corporate acronym; it’s a robust set of standards measuring a business's impact on society and the environment, and how transparent and accountable it is. With the pressure to satisfy ESG concerns ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re considering a career in data science or you've just accepted a junior role, then you’re probably wondering what a day in the life of a Data Scientist typically involves. The answer is, it depends! Every job is different and each day brings new challenges. You might be working for a large multinational with strict procedures and hierarchy or a startup with a flatter structure and looser ...
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Posted on Monday, April 3, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Did it take the worst public health crisis in modern history for businesses across the world to realise the importance of risk management? In the face of enforced homeworking, dislocated supply chains, and heightened cyber threats, organisations everywhere were left in little doubt that they were underprepared for a black swan event. The pandemic was the eye of a perfect storm of events that have ...
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Posted on Friday, March 31, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2023 Salary & Recruitment Trends Guide: Risk, Quant & Treasury Over the past two years, demand for risk professionals has reached new heights. Employers across the board have also reported major difficulties in sourcing skilled candidates, with salary expectations continuing to be the biggest barrier to hiring. Deep industry insight and understanding is needed by both professionals and employers ...
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Posted on Friday, March 31, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2023 Salary & Recruitment Trends Guide: Data Analytics The war for talent intensifies In 2021, the hiring demand reach heights rarely seen over the last 33-year history at Barclay Simpson. The UK vacancies hit record levels last year, climbing a staggering 114% over the 12-month period. Strong growth was arguably to be expected. Recruitment had been constrained throughout 2020 due to a perfect ...
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Posted on Friday, March 31, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2023 Compliance Salary & Recruitment Trends Guide The war for talent intensifies In 2021, the hiring demand reach heights rarely seen over the last 33-year history at Barclay Simpson. The UK vacancies hit record levels last year, climbing a staggering 114% over the 12-month period. Strong growth was arguably to be expected. Recruitment had been constrained throughout 2020 due to a perfect storm ...
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Posted on Friday, March 31, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2023 Salary & Recruitment Trends Guide: Internal Audit, Assurance and Control Despite uncertainty about the economy and talent shortages for 2023, employers are still hiring audit professionals at historically high levels. Audit salaries and bonus offerings continue their steady upward trajectory and contribute to a significant challenge for recruiting internal auditors. With such fierce ...
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Posted on Friday, March 31, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 Mar 2023 2023 Salary & Recruitment Trends Guide: Cyber Security, Data & Governance The war for talent intensifies In 2021, the hiring demand reach heights rarely seen over the last 33-year history at Barclay Simpson. The UK vacancies hit record levels last year, climbing a staggering 114% over the 12-month period. Strong growth was arguably to be expected. Recruitment had been ...
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Posted on Monday, March 27, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You know something is gaining traction these days when its search volume on Google skyrockets – which is exactly what’s happened to “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance). According to the world’s most popular search engine, ESG has displayed a hockey stick graph spike in popularity since 2019. The surge in searches represents more than an online trend; it underscores a shift in corporate ...
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Posted on Monday, March 20, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Introduced in 2002, in response to a number of corporate scandals including those involving Enron, Tyco International, and WorldCom, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act takes its name from Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley, the congressmen who drafted it, and set out new standards to help make financial reporting more transparent in order to protect investors. The SOX Act works by placing a clear divide ...
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Posted on Friday, March 17, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 17 Mar 2023 As the digital economy grows, the cyber-attack surface grows with it – a perfect storm of conditions that have given rise to the world’s biggest criminal growth industry. Damage from cybercrime is forecast to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 – a 300% increase from 2015 levels. The need to keep pace with this dynamic threat has triggered a surge in demand for cyber ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In many companies there remains a large gap between the ESG expectations of company stakeholders (investors, customers, employees, regulators) and company commitment. Given that a slew of sustainability disclosure standards are due to be adopted during 2023 and that growing numbers of institutional investors are increasingly active in expressing their dissatisfaction with companies failing to set ...
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Posted on Monday, March 13, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 13 Mar 2023 If you’re interested in technology and willing to learn continuously, Information Technology is a great career choice. It’s a broad field that offers numerous career paths, from software development and data analytics to cybersecurity and cloud computing. Plus, if you like to focus on the bigger picture, you could also consider working in IT governance. What is IT ...
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Posted on Friday, March 10, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Risk Management scores highly for work-life balance among finance jobs according to Emolument’s survey based on crowdsourced data – ahead of Trading, Sales & Structuring, Research, Middle & Back Office and Origination / Advisory. According to this data Risk Management is second only to Fund Management for work-life balance (and not by much!). So why might this be and is this true of all Risk ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
People who work in compliance need to have a thorough understanding of industry rules and regulations. Using this knowledge, they review internal processes and procedures to ensure their employers are operating in line with all relevant legislation. Compliance tends to attract people who are honest, thorough, and meticulous, and there are many different roles within this field including: ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Businesses are exposed to a blizzard of risks daily – from strategic risk and regulatory compliance risk to financial risk and operational risk. They have two choices amid this onslaught: adopt a reactive risk management strategy that is focused on damage limitation after a disruptive event or identify risks before they happen and develop strategies to avoid or alleviate them. This proactive ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 by the Careers In Group — No comments
Welcome to the latest Market Report from the Careers In Group specialist job boards. We have analysed the labour market to the end of December 2022, as well as our own job board data, plus the recurring themes highlighted by our clients and partners during 2022, to provide insights into the latest trends and how these are affecting the Audit and Governance recruitment and talent and employment ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is it feasible to switch career path into risk management? The answer is, as usual, “it depends”. Moves into risk management from Finance, Internal Audit, Compliance, Business Operations and even IT are not uncommon – but generally they are made more feasible if the skills of the particular risk management destination match those of the candidate. Risk management is a broad church so having a ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Analytics roles are many and varied. However, whether you are currently a Data Analyst, Data Scientist or Business Analyst, there are some useful ways of thinking about potential career paths that apply to all. Broadly speaking, there are three types of medium-term career paths that analytics professionals typically follow: Advancing within analytics Switching to “adjacent” roles Switching to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As ever, there is a seemingly straightforward answer to this question, along with a less straightforward one. Technically, candidates do not need a compliance qualification to get started in Compliance. There are however a variety of different compliance domains and roles and some are more hotly competed for (e.g., trade surveillance) than others (e.g., KYC) – so a compliance qualification can ...
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Posted on Monday, February 27, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance , a set of standards that are becoming increasingly important to modern consumers. Designed to encourage corporate responsibility by making businesses more mindful of their environmental impact and duty of care to stakeholders, by meeting ESG criteria , companies can properly demonstrate their credentials to socially conscious customers and ...
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Posted on Monday, February 27, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Feb 2023 Invitations to download software updates that fix glitches and boost cyber security regularly pop-up on our phones and laptops. Most of them are perfectly benign, but on occasion, like the Solar Winds supply chain attack in 2020, this process has been subverted by criminals or hostile foreign powers. In this instance, hackers planted a piece of secret code in the company’s ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Once the unsung heroes of businesses across industries, compliance professionals are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Their dedication to empowering an organisation to function legally and ethically while meeting its business goals has earnt them respect amid an increasingly robust regulatory environment: once viewed as a box-ticking exercise that was a barrier to business, ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What themes will characterise the world of ESG and Sustainability in 2023? ESG and Sustainability comprises a very wide range of issues and so we’ve focused on three trends that we think are likely to have sizeable implications for employment opportunities. 1. More transparency, more pressure on Boards 2022 saw worldwide impact investing pass $1 trillion for the first time , according to the ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 Jan 2023 From fingerprints to firewalls, the application of science to criminal and civil laws has evolved to include the recovery and investigation of material found on digital devices. Known as Digital Forensics, this branch of forensic science focuses on identifying, acquiring, processing, analysing, and reporting on data related to cybercrime. Amid an explosion in cyberattacks ...
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What will be the talent hotspots in data analytics in 2023? Here are three trends that we’ve identified in the business use of data and analytics that are likely to grow in momentum over the coming 12 months, shaping the skillsets sought by employers. 1. The use of data and analytics permeates an ever-wider scope of business functions Marketing and Risk have historically made the most use of data ...
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2023 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Cybercriminals are an opportunistic bunch. Their determination to exploit new and existing vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure has given rise to the world's biggest criminal growth industry – it’s estimated that the cost of global cybercrime will reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2015. When they’re not tweaking existing attacks to avoid ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Without risk, there is no reward in the uncertain world of business. This symptom of generating a profit is typically divided into numerous categories to help us understand and manage it – from competitive and compliance to credit and currency. But if we view these risks in their rudimentary form, we can distil them into two distinct types: financial risks and everything else (non-financial ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As last year’s geopolitical shocks showed, forecasts can quickly change due to unforeseen events. However, some clear industry trends for 2023 are emerging, and we can start to make some confident predictions about the likely challenges and opportunities for compliance departments in the year ahead. Cryptocurrency As cryptocurrency becomes more widely used and embedded in the financial system, ...
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Who cares wins in the modern corporate battlefield, where it is no longer enough for businesses to report on financial metrics alone. Today’s ethically conscious society demands a fresh corporate philosophy that drives sustainable growth and future-proofs against the risks of climate change. This clamour for products and services that put people and the planet ahead of profits has prompted a ...
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In a financial services company, the compliance department ensures that business is conducted in line with all relevant laws and regulations. This activity is essential to safeguard corporate reputation, and to protect customers from financial crimes like fraud. Examples of financial services regulations include anti-money laundering and data protection, while a host of legislation exists to ...
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Internal auditors play a key role in building resilient companies that are better able to manage risk and withstand external shocks. After the turbulence of the last few years, internal audit is very much in the spotlight, and teams around the world face continued challenges in the form of regulatory changes and further geopolitical uncertainty. As internal audit professionals gear up for the ...
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What will be the talent hotspots in Risk and Compliance in 2023? Reliable crystal balls are few and far between so rather than roll the dice we’ve taken a look at some of the trends that are already unfolding and that will continue to be factors through 2023 and – based on these – have identified four Risk and Compliance skillsets that we think are likely to be in high demand over the coming ...
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Posted on Friday, January 20, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
One of the hottest trending sustainability buzzwords, ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance . The phrase emerged from an environmental initiative at the United Nations and now refers to a set of standards used to measure how companies manage risks and opportunities related to these criteria. The three pillars in ESG represent the areas that companies are expected to report in: ...
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Posted on Friday, January 20, 2023 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Clarity and precision are highly prized in the world of compliance. You can therefore quite reasonably be forgiven for thinking that a Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) is no more than that – someone who reports suspicions or instances of money laundering within an institution. Whilst this is indeed one of the core responsibilities the role is much broader and is of such weight that the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Auditors inspect financial records to ensure legal compliance. It’s an important role because this work also helps organisations to become more efficient and protect against fraud. To become an auditor, you need to be able to build strong relationships and networks, pay close attention to detail, apply critical thinking skills, and be able to work well under pressure. The usual study route ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Thanks to the rise of smartphones and the Internet, data is more abundant than ever. This information is changing the way we live and work and has become hugely important in business. In 2017, The Economist Magazine went as far as declaring that “the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”, and over the past few years organisations have scrambled to use data more effectively as ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Risk management models are designed to help organisations identify, analyse, and mitigate risks so they’re prepared to deal with them should they occur. But how can risk professionals be sure the models have substance? Consider their staying power. Longevity is a scarce attribute in the dynamic world of business – especially when it comes to risk. The risk landscape is constantly evolving and ...
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Posted on Friday, November 4, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
No matter the extent of a financial institution’s ESG ambitions – whether it be aiming merely to achieve minimum compliance or, more ambitiously, to championing ESG as a key element of its customer, employee and wider stakeholder commitments – the business and operational impacts are far-reaching. New ESG roles and responsibilities are appearing in a wide range of areas: product and service ...
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Posted on Friday, November 4, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you were to rank order different professions by the importance of stakeholder management to them, Risk Management would be close to the top of the list. Why? Because individuals are behind every risk a business faces – whether that be a product management team bringing products to market, an underwriting team making lending decisions or an operations team handling inbound and outbound company ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is corporate governance the same as compliance? The simple answer is no – but they are closely linked. Both disciplines form a third of an integrated set of processes and procedures that enable a business to reliably achieve objectives, address uncertainty and act with integrity: governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Empowered by this integrated approach to GRC – rather than viewing ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
I spend a considerable amount of my day to day working life around accountants and auditors, and, as a veteran and intrepid reporter for CareersinAudit.com , I often ask, ’What’s new in Audit?’, slanting my question towards the careers’ end of the professional spectrum. Readers of these pages might not be surprised at my latest topic, but I have to say, for all my thirty plus years in audit, I ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Organisations face many different types of risk, that without proper identification and contingency planning, can seriously impact their performance, which is why risk management is so important. By anticipating problems that could be coming down the line, organisations are better placed to navigate uncertainty and remain on track to achieve their goals and objectives. The types of risk that ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It’s fair to say that one of the characteristics of most professional occupations in the 21st century is that there is no such thing as a “typical” day. This is no less true in the world of data science . Nonetheless, different types of organisations can have very different expectations of their data scientists which, to some extent, you can anticipate. The essence of data science is to analyse ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Insurance policies offer protection to individuals and businesses from the financial repercussions of unfortunate events such as fires, theft, car accidents and natural disasters. But, the insurance provider needs to calculate the premiums that they charge their customers carefully or else they face the risk of bankruptcy. Take flooding for example. If the premiums are set too low and catastrophe ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Oct 2022 By the time you finish reading this article, the cybersecurity landscape will have evolved. For example, the AV-TEST Institute registers 450,000 new pieces of malware every day – with one intention: to steal people’s data. If you work in the cybersecurity industry you can’t afford to stand still. This field is constantly expanding and becoming more sophisticated because of ...
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Posted on Friday, October 21, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Unlike External Auditors who are concerned with financial statements and balance sheets, Internal Audit Managers offer objective and unbiased advice to ensure risk management, governance and internal controls operate effectively. By focusing on issues such as regulatory compliance, the environment, growth, and employee wellbeing, they help to improve efficiency as well as safeguard corporate ...
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Posted on Friday, October 21, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the name “Business Intelligence Analyst” pretty much describes the entirety of the role: i.e., using analytics to generate business intelligence and insights. Yet there are a multitude of diverse activities that sit behind this seemingly innocuous job title – and Business Intelligence Analysts (whom we’ll call BI Analysts from here on to save paper!) have ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is the main purpose of a business to make a profit? You would be forgiven for assuming so. But this short-sighted view overlooks the driving force behind these all-important financial gains: the consumer. Profit is a by-product of understanding the consumer and giving them what they want – and their requirements are evolving. Today’s ethically conscious society demands products and services that ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 by the Careers In Group — No comments
With unemployment at a record low and high numbers of employers with urgent requirements to fill vacancies, businesses need to work harder and smarter to attract the right talent. We've analysed the labour market to the end of September, our own job board data and recurring themes highlighted by our clients and partners, to provide insight into the latest trends and how these are affecting the ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Well, that’s a tricky question. It’s certainly the case that no single profession is going suit everyone, but in our view there are four reasons why many should find the prospect of a career in Compliance an attractive one: 1. Intellectual stimulation. Compliance was once regarded as a box-ticking exercise driven by prescriptive regulation. As regulators move to more principles-based approaches, ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 13 Oct 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month – held every October – is a joint initiative between government and industry that was born in the U.S. to raise awareness about digital security and empower everyone to protect their data from cybercrime. Each year a theme is chosen for the month – and the theme for 2022 is: “See Yourself In Cyber”, offering tips and advice on how to keep your ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data analytics involves interrogating information to find emerging patterns and trends. Uncovering hidden insight can help improve decision-making and drive meaningful change. Real world applications of data analysis include improving medical care, stopping hackers, enabling precision marketing, promoting smart energy usage, and helping the fight against climate change. If you are considering a ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Hopefully by now, readers of these pages have embraced the premise of the essential nature of soft skills. Gone are the days of auditing, finance and accounting being hard skills-driven, perpetuating the stereotype of the nerdy, possibly boring (more of this next month) left-brain dominated professional. Technical skills are still, of course, essential, but they are also a given. Beyond entry ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Expectations of compliance professionals grow and expand as they move up in seniority. Meeting these requires developing a wider range of more nuanced soft skills. In the early part of your career you may have found that the soft skills you required were very similar to those needed by colleagues in non-compliance roles: good communication skills, the ability to work effectively in a team, strong ...
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Posted on Monday, October 3, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 03 Oct 2022 As the millennium dawned, the rapid growth of the internet from a U.S. government project to an interconnected computer network that underpins society meant cybercriminals had more devices to exploit than ever before – and the techniques they used to execute cyberattacks were becoming increasingly sophisticated. By 2004, cybercrime was booming amid this ever-expanding ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In evaluating career opportunities in risk it is important to have a good understanding of different risk roles. In particular, there is often confusion over where the boundary between risk analysis and risk management lies. Here we discuss the differences and bring these to life. First, let’s start with risk management. Risk management is the umbrella term given to the end-to-end process of ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Sep 2022 Cyber risk has evolved from being considered an IT issue into a top board priority. Cyber-attacks have been on the risk radar since 1988 when Robert Tappan Morris accidentally executed the world’s first Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Back then – and for a long while after – cyber-attacks were only viewed through a technical lens. Powered by the rapid growth of ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The role of the Compliance Officer has evolved this century from a bolt-on middle-management position where someone drew the short straw of added responsibilities – something akin to being a fire warden or first aider – to an essential full-time job amid ever-changing and escalating regulatory demands. In those early days businesses typically viewed the role as a box-ticking exercise, rather than ...
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Posted on Friday, September 2, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Competitive success in many industries is becoming increasingly dependent on the ability of businesses to exploit data science. With the growing importance of data science there has been a corresponding expansion in both the hard and soft skills expected of Data Scientists. There are numerous websites which provide long unstructured lists of example interview questions. Rather than repeat these, ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Third-party relationships have become a fulcrum of successful operations for agile organisations in the transformative age – a time of both limitless opportunity and unprecedented risk. These opposing forces are inherent in the process of working with vendors in today’s increasingly complex and competitive global marketplace. Yes, these relationships have become critical to cost reduction, ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Job Search Motivation 101 Some of you will have been fortunate enough to have moved swiftly and effortlessly between jobs, perhaps even headhunted, without any formal job search. For most of us though, at some point or other, we will be in active job-seeking mode, pursuing a progression, responding to redundancy, or simply seeking a change of scenery. This article explores how you can keep ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 30 Aug 2022 Cybercrime is big business. In 2022, we’ve already seen attacks on Microsoft, Crypto.com, and even the Red Cross, resulting in the theft of customer data, company sensitive information and millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency. Given the financial and reputational consequences of these breaches, demand for cybersecurity professionals is at an all-time high. There’s ...
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Posted on Monday, July 18, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Now, it would be so easy for me to give you a comprehensive list of tips, tricks and techniques to improve your work-life balance. And we certainly need a re-boot given post-pandemic changes to working environments, the marketplace and our own expectations. But surely the place to start is discerning what work-life balance actually is, hence my rueful header: does not, the ‘whole of life’, trump ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 12 Jul 2022 The propagation of cybercrime was accelerated by the pandemic after it dealt society an indiscriminate blow in March 2020. Amid the worst public health crises in modern history, cybercriminals seized their chance to cash in on escalating uncertainty – turning the pandemic into a nefarious business opportunity. As business models shifted away from the office and digital ...
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Posted on Friday, July 8, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Businesses are waking up to the critical role they must play in limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. This figure was set as a target in the Paris Agreement: the first legally binding international climate change treaty. Fast forward six years to November 2021, when the Glasgow Climate Pact was agreed, ushering in a new era of investment in limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and building ...
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Posted on Friday, July 8, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Taking an unusual path into an audit career, Sam made the move from freelance trumpet player to an Audit Associate at Azets UK. We find out what attracted him to accountancy, what he enjoys about his role, and what tips he has for others looking to start their careers in audit. Tell us a bit about you and your background I was born in Portsmouth and spent most of my childhood either at school, ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Kameron Balaggan, Assistant in the Audit & Assurance team at Azets based in Wolverhampton discusses his Audit career journey so far and what advice he would give to someone looking to study a professional qualification. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? I studied BSc Accounting & Management at Queen Mary University of London, graduating in 2019. It was here was where I ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We are faced with a business landscape far more complex than ever before and in some cases, traditional internal audit approaches have lost their lustre and their impact. The rise of data analytics has touched upon numerous areas of business in its ability to reveal actionable insights that help drive that business forward, and internal audit has certainly recognised the benefit of leveraging ...
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Posted on Monday, June 6, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Future is Now: Auditor Skills and Competencies, to Infinity and Beyond The markets are buoyant; your technical expertise, supported by a rich bedrock of commercial softer skills, are keeping you at the top of your game in the race for audit talent. This is 2022. But before you get too complacent, spare a thought for the churning turmoil just beneath the surface. This is the twenty first ...
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Posted on Monday, June 6, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
B Corporations - what are they? You may have seen the logo: a circled uppercase letter B above a thin black line. The B Corporation movement started in 2006, and currently, over 4,000 businesses across 150 industries in more than 70 countries are Certified B Corporations. This growing cohort includes some very big names. Yet ‘B Corp’ status can still seem a little obscure. Simply put, B ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Izzy Chaplin, one of the Audit Seniors based in the Azets UK Beaconsfield office tells us about her career journey with the firm. Dive into what her role involves on a day-to-day basis and hear about why it’s important to embrace every opportunity. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? I started my accountancy career while at University. I was part of the first BSc Accountancy ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Lindsey Tyler is Azets UK ’s Head of Audit. Her role focuses on developing and implementing the Azets UK Audit growth strategy. It is very much a commercial role and involves working alongside Azets UK Head of Regulatory Compliance, Carol Warburton and Head of Audit Quality & Technical, David Smith. Lindsey’s remit is to embed operational excellence and align regional plans to deliver growth, ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The war for talent: current labour market trends In 2020, the UK suffered its biggest economic slump since records began, with GDP plummeting 20.4% across the second quarter of the year due to the impact of Covid-19. As in most downturns, businesses initially curtailed recruitment. Throughout most of 2020, employment growth declined and unemployment rose. The KPMG/REC graph below shows the steep ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The war for talent: current labour market trends In 2020, the UK suffered its biggest economic slump since records began, with GDP plummeting 20.4% across the second quarter of the year due to the impact of Covid-19. As in most downturns, businesses initially curtailed recruitment. Throughout most of 2020, employment growth declined and unemployment rose. The KPMG/REC graph below shows the steep ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The war for talent: current labour market trends In 2020, the UK suffered its biggest economic slump since records began, with GDP plummeting 20.4% across the second quarter of the year due to the impact of Covid-19. As in most downturns, businesses initially curtailed recruitment. Throughout most of 2020, employment growth declined and unemployment rose. The KPMG/REC graph below shows the steep ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 18 May 2022 The war for talent: current labour market trends In 2020, the UK suffered its biggest economic slump since records began, with GDP plummeting 20.4% across the second quarter of the year due to the impact of Covid-19. As in most downturns, businesses initially curtailed recruitment. Throughout most of 2020, employment growth declined and unemployment rose. The KPMG/REC graph ...
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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Over the past couple of years, a culmination of political, public, corporate, and governmental interest and will has created exponential growth in the sustainability market. This trend has catalysed increased demand for sustainability services, creating new roles as companies get to grips with lofty targets and new metrics. However, the market is yet to catch up in terms of it’s supply for this ...
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Posted on Monday, May 9, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Should I stay or should I go now? There is no denying the 2022 zeitgeist, ‘it’s a candidates’ market’. From The Great Resignation to record levels of employment and startling wage-inflation (in at least some sectors), the demand for audit, assurance, risk and compliance professionals is comfortably buoyant. But from a career-perspective, is it the right time to be changing jobs? Let’s consider… ...
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Posted on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As we race into 2022, keen to put into action the commitments and pledges made in Glasgow alongside organisational sustainability objectives, one of the biggest challenges the recruitment industry faces is that of talent. Demand is already outstripping supply and the gap is growing by the day. Over the last 24 months the recruitment industry has witnessed an explosion in interest and demand in ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In this episode of IAC's Sustainability Spotlight Series, the Sustainability Team were delighted to welcome Fiona Quinlan to talk to the IAC community about TCFD. TCFD stands for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. It is a framework that organisations can use to publicly disclose the climate-related risks and opportunities to their businesses. With over 150 attendees from ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Earlier this year, IAC’s Sustainability Director Chris Brooker presented at Sustainability Live in London discussing recruitment trends, challenges and solutions in the rapidly evolving ESG talent landscape. His presentation below provides an overview of the ESG talent market, diving deeper into some of the emerging dynamics and how organisations can navigate the current environment.
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Posted on Friday, April 8, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re planning a move away from your career in audit , the key things to consider are where your skills can easily transfer, where your experience can add the most value and what your career objectives are. Drivers for moving out of audit vary and can derive from social influence as audit professionals observe their peers moving into, what they deem to be, ‘cooler’ roles within financial ...
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Posted on Friday, April 8, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 08 Apr 2022 The business world has a strong reliance on digital information. Not to mention the networks from which they can leverage the virtual domain of the internet. So, the need for individuals who understand how to protect those networks to safely share information interconnectedly, is high. The breadth of cyber security jobs encompasses the security of data networks. So, for ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With the UK pledging to fight climate change and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, jobs in the ‘green collar’ sector are hotter than ever. What skills do you need for a job in sustainability , and what do you need to know to find the perfect role? Understanding the lingo Terminology in the sector can be difficult to understand, with buzzwords like ‘sustainability’ and ‘ESG’ falling in ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Now, I’ve been working in and around audit for more years than I care to remember, and I’ll readily admit to starting my career in a previous century! So, you might wonder if my recollections of a younger auditing self are still relevant today. When CareersinAudit.com asked me to pen a letter of advice to my fledgling self, I did question the extent of how the world and auditing have changed in ...
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Posted on Friday, March 25, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Mar 2022 Did you know, men currently outnumber women by 3 to 1 in the cyber security space (according to research by (ISC)2)? In the wake of International Women’s Day, the conversation around encouraging the fairer sex into traditionally male occupations has certainly gained more traction. Cyber security as an industry, has recognised the need for greater diversity in its workforce ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The short answer to our title question, is no. Financial risk is certainly a term we are all familiar with, however, in a world that is continually shifting, evolving and finding itself subject to unexpected events; risk extends beyond the parameters of money alone. As global warming moves steadily from a G8 talking point to real world issues causing mass flooding, earthquakes and fires; and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Can you switch things up professionally and move from accounting or risk management to data analytics? The first question you should be asking is, do you really want to? Have you done the research to fully understand what it will be like to work in data analytics? Or are you just interested in the trendy sounding AI and machine learning job titles? Why Data Analytics? Most data analysts must put ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Also known by various other titles such as Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) or Director of Sustainability, the Head of Sustainability (HOS) provides an organisation with the tools and expertise to manage sustainability-related environmental, social and governance issues. The HOS typically brings technical skills and “soft” skills and works with the company’s senior management to align ...
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Posted on Monday, March 7, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As businesses raise their social and environmental consciousness, the role of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) becomes more pertinent and more central within numerous organisations, and certainly the majority of larger organisations. The importance of ESG has in turn led to the need for dedicated professionals to guide businesses along a more sustainable path, and possibly the strongest ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Biden administration is chasing a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 target in the fight against climate change. This means that carbon is the hot topic for US businesses, who are reacting to incentives put in place by President Biden to produce lower carbon emissions. “The US is really focused on carbon, primarily because a number of executives in its larger corporations, such as ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Just three years ago, as chair of a local board, I scandalously suggested that we should conduct at least some of our meetings remotely. A number of our members were travelling two hours each way to attend a ninety-minute traditional round table session, incurring costs and dead travel time. Unsurprisingly, attendance was patchy which, in turn, impacted the diversity of active participants ...
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Posted on Friday, February 25, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Although it is not easy to pigeon-hole ESG roles, it is generally accepted that the primary objective of an ESG Analyst is to research relevant material on the Environmental, Social and Governance risks, opportunities and capabilities of an organisation or analyse the activity data of the organisation. Individuals applying for ESG Analyst jobs will probably have a relevant degree in a subject ...
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Posted on Friday, February 25, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Even if you are unsure about how to do it, it is important to take ownership over your career, especially in a field as diverse as sustainability. From continuous assessment to looking at your industry through lenses besides your current role, there are a number of ways those working in ESG and Sustainability can take responsibility for their careers. As a basic first step, you should maintain ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The type of qualifications required to work in ESG jobs fundamentally depends on the area of ESG you intend to work in. Certain areas will of course demand specialist knowledge and/or degrees and experience. To break it down into some of the key areas, this is a basic guide to some of the expectations employers will have for those embarking on careers in ESG . Engineering-based Roles One of those ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The beauty of moving into a career in ESG is that there are so many professions whose skills feed into the sustainability space so seamlessly. Taking, for example, the investigative skills of a policeman, the technical system knowledge of an engineer, the research skills of a journalist or lawyer; it is clear that those professionals can easily apply their respective expertise to ESG and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When looking for a new job in the Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) sector, it is common to compare your personal values with those of the organisation you are looking to work for. As such, you may be willing to somewhat turn the interview tables around (figuratively) during your ESG job interview and grill the organisation on their systems and overall values. So what are the types of ...
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Posted on Friday, February 4, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Billion-dollar fines for money laundering have become something of an unfortunate regularity in recent years, as both financial terrorists and regulators have equally ramped up their efforts to control the world’s funds. Together with the evolution of data analytics and the sheer volume of data generated on a daily basis, not to mention the technology created to support it; the demand for experts ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What you’ll be asked at your ESG job interview is largely dependent on your level of experience. For someone with no experience in the field, employers will be more concerned with the attitude of an individual and their values. Whereas, for someone coming into a more senior ESG role, the hiring manager wants to understand what sort of leadership capabilities you possess, as well as the specific ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Broadly speaking, there tends to be two pathways into ESG and Sustainability careers; the choice is largely dictated by whether you’re in the technical camp (particularly engineering and the sciences) or the non-technical camp (ranging from legal to activism). Historically, it was easier to start working in ESG and Sustainability via the technical route. In the last two decades, however, things ...
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Posted on Friday, January 28, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
One of the key figures of any organisation’s management team, the fundamental duty of the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is in overseeing the compliance across the business with regards to all relevant laws, regulatory requirements and procedures. “This needs to be someone who fulfils both a leadership role and specialist role,” says Compliance veteran, Nathan Dearinger, “a rare person who can ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Every Data Analyst will start their day a little differently though one can assume coffee would be a common denominator ahead of the daily inbox check. Getting prepared for the day, Data Analysts will go through their emails and reply to as many as possible before the daily Stand-Up meeting with their team. Occurring around 9-9.30am, the Stand-Up meeting is a daily fixture on a Data Analyst’s ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In simple terms, a risk modeler is someone who looks at historical information and events in order to make predictions about the future. They will take that information and construct models based on specific variables, correlations and events in order to ascertain the likelihood of future losses or incidents depending on which area of risk they are working in. Within the financial services ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If the past two years have taught us nothing else, it’s that resilience is key. As organisations worldwide have been forced to adapt to the new normal of a hybrid workplace, bent to the need for flexibility and worked harder to remain relevant and useful; the question is how does this apply to audit? At ground level, the basic day-to-day of internal audit has largely moved online with the ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2022 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance professionals in the 30-something age bracket are both blessed and cursed to be launching their compliance careers in a time of increased rules and regulations around the way companies can do business. Every industry from financial services to healthcare is affected, which of course means plenty of jobs in compliance , but also places a greater responsibility in the hands of its ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2022 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 11 Jan 2022 Data protection has become a more centralised issue for modern businesses, particularly since the advent of the EU GDPR in 2018. As such the demand for those with the experience and skills to take on the role and/or responsibilities of Data Protection Officer is high. Still a relatively new role in many companies, the practical application of Data Protection Officer jobs ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data collection is a central concern for pretty much every business, so the demand for skilled people to fill Data Scientist jobs and make use of this information is high. Companies need data experts who can organise the collected information and extract valuable business insights. When hiring for Data Science roles, companies are looking for the trifecta of strong business acumen, technical ...
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Posted on Friday, December 17, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is common for media pundits to describe current industry conditions as ‘uncertain’ or ‘volatile’. We are used to hearing that the commercial landscape is ‘evolving rapidly’. What’s perhaps unusual is for these remarks to be understatements rather than hyperbole. However, 2020 and 2021 proved to be periods of unprecedented change for UK businesses. And Internal Audit’s role of providing ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There are many facets to working in Internal Audit and when you sit down across from a hiring manager or future employer it’s important that you fully understand what the organisation’s approach to audit is, what’s expected of you and what your Internal Audit career could look like in their hands. With over a decade of experience in prepping candidates for Internal Audit jobs , Lee Hine, Director ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance jobs exist in basically every industry. Education, retail, healthcare, finance, aviation and so on. So when we talk about the different types of compliance it will ultimately come down to which field you work in. However, it’s also about how you practice compliance, whether you’re coming at it from a legal angle or a regulatory one that will define the different types of compliance. ...
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Posted on Thursday, December 9, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
First impressions of course count towards your ability to impress so following the basic rules of interview engagement apply regardless of which industry you’re targeting. Beyond your ironed shirt and/or sleek up-do, when applying for jobs in risk it is what lies within that will make you stand out. Lee Hine, Director of Asia Pacific for KPP Search, says the first thing a company will be looking ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Staying ahead of regulatory change is a mammoth task for many financial institutions. For example, it took 30,000 pages and 1.5 million paragraphs to fully describe the rules for MiFID II — and that’s just one legislative framework. According to regulatory thinktank JWG, the UK had likely amassed a staggering 300 million pages of financial regulations by 2020. The annual cost of anti-money ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
While you will be expected to answer questions on career goals, experience and Data Analysis basics, the real proof of your worthiness to fill a Data Analyst role is in your technical proficiency. A new-age translator for a heavily data-led landscape, it should come as no surprise that much of the content of Data Analyst job interviews would be focused on the technical aspect of the role. ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Risk Analysts are an integral cog in the business machine, guiding organisations through risks and opportunities to drive the business forward. Undeniably no one day mirrors the next, in large part due to the highly reactive nature of working in risk analysis. However, though the content of a Risk Analyst’s day may fluctuate on a case by case basis there are things that are relative constants ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Data Analyst is in a unique position to act as intermediary between all factions of an organisation, brokering the knowledge they decipher from performing statistical data analysis to guide and improve the business. The types of questions you’ll get asked during your Data Analyst interview will largely depend on the level at which you’re applying to. Generally speaking the interviewer will ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When you’re going for an internal audit interview you can expect your interviewer to target four key areas. Their line of questioning will likely cover everything from why you’re sitting across from them, and your internal audit journey thus far, to your technical expertise and whether your soft skills measure up to their expectations for the role. Why do you want this job? The initial part of ...
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Posted on Monday, October 25, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Finding a balance between work life and home life can be a challenge, particularly if you are at the start of your career. That’s the time for putting in the hard yards as you establish yourself within your chosen field. If you’re thinking about working in compliance you can certainly expect some long hours and a weekend here and there as you work your way up the ladder. It really depends on your ...
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Posted on Friday, October 15, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The term ‘Agile’ stems from a concept which originated to create more productivity within software development. Designed to drive an efficient and effective way of working, it has been picked up more widely across the business world, including within audit. In adopting an ‘Agile’ approach, Internal Audit teams can elevate their impact by generating insights and feedback at a much faster rate. ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The first thing to note when compiling your Risk CV is to ensure it is no longer than three pages. Hiring managers do not want 'War and Peace', just a simple run-down of who you are and your experience. Lee Hine, Director for Asia Pacific, KPP Search, advises candidates that their CV should outline clearly the areas of risk they have expertise in. “People need to know what you’re targeting and ...
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Posted on Monday, October 11, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 11 Oct 2021 Ekow Oduro is a great example of how following your interests can lead to a career that you love. Always intrigued by technology, he is currently working as an Information Security Analyst for a global modern luxury fashion brand offering designer clothing for men and women, with a wide selection of stylish accessories, shoes, and home goods. We asked Ekow a few questions ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 29 Sep 2021 At first glance you’d assume all compliance is important, particularly when it has to do with an organisation’s IT systems. However, the question of whether it equates to a comprehensive shield against external threats and cyber-attacks is not as straightforward as one would expect. “Being compliant is not an assurance or guarantee of any kind of protection,” says Dylan ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 Sep 2021 Whether you’re already ensconced in a cyber security career or you’re looking to enter the industry, the road map for your success ultimately lies with you. There are steps you can take to drive your career in the right direction. If already working in a company with a cyber security division, some organisations will have some kind of career counsellor system in place, ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data makes the world go round. So long as we have the experts available who can interpret it. Businesses rely on Data Analysts to make the connections they need between their customers, their products, processes, inputs, and the market, using the data being generated. Using the insights and information Data Analysts extract from the data, organisations can then make informed decisions to drive ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 26 Aug 2021 The demand for cyber security professionals with expertise in cloud security has evolved with the ever-increasing number of businesses moving to the cloud. Moving away from the historic server or on-premise model and into the cloud model has opened up a whole new set of security questions and challenges to overcome. Speaking to Dylan Holloway, Cyber Security Manager for EY, ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There’s always two sides to every story and that includes a career in audit. The question is, is it the Internal Audit or External Audit side that is going to procure you your happily ever after? What? The first thing is to understand what the final objective of either audit type is. External Audit, in 9/10 cases is to express an opinion on financial statements. This is done in accordance with ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The most important point to note when deciding to make a professional move, is not to get caught up in the supposed expectations. If you’re considering a move into a career in compliance and you’re coming from an unrelated space, that doesn’t mean you should drop down to a less senior level. “Don’t be afraid to match your skill and experience coming into a compliance role,” says Senior Compliance ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 3, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It sometimes happens that people find themselves at a crossroads in their career and make the decision to apply their skillset elsewhere. The ease and mechanics of such a transition is of course dependent on the profession you have selected. If you are looking to make your career in risk without a background in risk, you should consider what you can bring to the role and how best to network and ...
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Posted on Sunday, August 1, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Our modern existence is powered by reams and reams of data, as businesses utilise this immeasurably invaluable commodity to glean insights into their consumers and convert them into lifelong clientele. The importance of data equates quite neatly to a demand for Data Scientists whose job it is to analyse and interpret the data to unearth meaning, patterns, insights and trends in order to make ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance jobs may not feature on the bucket lists of our teenage selves, however when you reach university or come to a professional crossroads at a point in your adult life, experience plays into a new perspective. You may still hanker for a life on the stage or in a sporting arena, but the reality may be that you need something more stable that better fits your abilities. Senior compliance ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Spend just a short time talking to Ben Kaye about internal audit and if you’re not already interested in the profession, you might just find yourself thinking it sounds like something to consider. He’s been working in internal audit for 20 years, he loves what he does, and his passion for the internal audit profession is almost palpable. We asked him about his role, how he got to where he is now, ...
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Posted on Friday, July 16, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It's common knowledge that historically, internal audit roles have been predominately held by men and those with similar backgrounds. In a study titled “Women in Internal Audit: Perspectives Around the World” carried out by the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), it was found that women make up a smaller percentage of the workforce in all global regions apart from North America. In ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 13 Jul 2021 Vulnerability Analysts tend to be the Cyber Security professionals who have an interest in dissecting systems. Coming in at the final stage of analysis, the expectation is for you to uncover the weaknesses that are essentially invisible to most other humans’ eyes – aka other IT experts. From these findings you will then share your recommendations with the business. Your ...
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Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As a Risk professional, your job is defined by the identification, assessment and mitigation of threats to an organisation. As recruitment consultant Lee Hine explains, working in risk casts you as a barometer for the business in order to understand how it is performing and to see where its’ weaknesses are and where improvements can be made. Whether you’re working in operational risk, credit ...
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Posted on Friday, July 2, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 02 Jul 2021 We hear constantly of new online threats, cyber-attacks, scams to watch out for and new technologies that both streamline our lives and yet make it that much easier for cyber-criminals to get hold of our money. Are we fighting a lost cause when it comes to cyber-crime or is the battle strategy simpler than we think? The truth is that while the fight may seem futile, the ...
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Posted on Friday, July 2, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 02 Jul 2021 The global pandemic may just prove (eventually) to be a blip on our historical timeline, but we cannot ignore its implications, professionally speaking. Pushing us all out of our comfort zone has been a great life lesson both to employees and their companies, resulting in a resounding demand for people who can cope well with change and navigate it with ease. This is no less ...
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Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
On January 31st 2020, the UK formally withdrew from the European Union (EU) – more than three-and-a-half years after the country first voted ‘Leave’ in the 2016 referendum. Less than a year later, the nation has also left the bloc’s single market and customs union. In more conventional times, Brexit would be the biggest story of the year in European governance circles. However, the arrival and ...
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Posted on Friday, June 25, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Jun 2021 The demand for cyber security skills around the world has gone through and shattered the roof. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in the U.S. estimates a cyber security job growth around 31% through 2029, that’s just over seven times faster than the national average job growth of 4%. The totality of unfilled cyber security positions in the U.S. is shooting up (expected to ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 24, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you’re coming at an audit engagement from an internal audit or external audit perspective, your objective is to get the information you need in order to truly ascertain what is happening in the business area you’re auditing. Beyond the paperwork are the people working within the business and their insights are just as crucial to the audit process. So, how do you go about building that ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you’re just entering the compliance job market, or you’d consider yourself an industry veteran, taking personal responsibility for your compliance career should be a key priority. But what do we mean when we say that? You’ll find that the people who become successful come under the professional dictionary alongside terms like 'taking the initiative', 'being proactive', 'being self-aware'. ...
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Posted on Friday, June 18, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The 2010s was the hottest decade since records began in 1880. It’s a trend which shows little sign of abating over the next ten years, with NASA calculating that 2020 was tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever recorded. In fact, the last seven years have also been the seven hottest in terms of global average temperatures. Climate change, fuelled by excessive greenhouse gas emissions, is ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in data analytics opens a great many doors but as with anything those opportunities will only materialise if you lay the right foundations. Whether you’ve come to an analytics career from an unrelated route or you’re slowly working your way up the proverbial analytics career ladder, there are two critical things you need to make it to base camp one, and those are the right skills and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 by the Careers In Group — No comments
At the Careers In Group we’ve thought a lot about the Covid-19 crisis and how this will impact employers. Talent attraction has changed considerably. Candidates are now flooding the market and filtering through irrelevant CVs is a time-consuming task that should be avoided. It is currently a critical time for the industry and we are here to ensure that you secure the very best talent in the most ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With age comes experience and until you’ve gotten to a certain point in your career you may not be fully aware of what should and could be expected of you. For risk professionals in their 30s, they are at an interesting point in their career where they’ve done a lot of the groundwork to establishing themselves within a risk management role and are most likely managing a team of people. So what ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You’ve got the basics down pat, the smart outfit (online interview or not), the company researched, and your own CV memorised, but for compliance jobs in particular, what are the things that will make you stand out in an interview? Of course, it will always depend on the kind of compliance role you’re interviewing for but there are some fundamental traits that will set you apart from the crowd. ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Quality assurance and audit are two very distinct functions, however when the two are married together they become a powerful tool to improve the quality, consistency, and reliability of a business’ operations. The intent of a quality assurance audit is to evaluate whether an organisation is adhering to the principles and requirements as prescribed by the overseeing regulatory body and, equally ...
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re looking to launch your career in risk analysis or risk management , credit risk could provide a great opening gambit. Offering an excellent view into the business and its interests as well as the type of people interacting with the business, you are well poised to climb the credit risk career ladder or move into more senior finance positions, or even take a different direction and head ...
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 28 May 2021 It goes without saying that cyber security is as broad as it is wide so understanding the line of questioning a candidate should be preparing for an interview will of course be subject to the specific job title, industry, and level of seniority. However, guided by a recruitment expert in the cyber security field, we have picked out some key questions to ask, from entry ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
To be a successful auditor there are skills you need that go beyond the technical expertise and necessary soft skills. Being able to self-audit on a regular basis to keep yourself accountable as well as remembering that part of your job means dealing with human beings are equally important. Working in audit effectively translates to having highly attuned skills for evaluating others and the many ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2021 by Gabby Baglino — No comments
When it comes to raising alarms about misconduct at companies, whistleblowers in Europe have been left to themselves for many years. A stigma attached to whistleblowing hints at Europe's dark history of fascism and World War II. Yet the EU Whistleblower Directive marks a new era in the discussion of this subject. The attitude toward whistleblowing has evolved significantly over the last decade. ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
No matter your line of work, it’s important to have personal accountability in what you do and to take charge of your career and its development. This is absolutely true for careers in audit. We guide you through what we’ve learned about how you can take responsibility for your audit career. What are your personal career goals? Setting goals and realistic timelines for your career establishes a ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in data analytics undoubtedly demands that practitioners are technically skilled. However, it’s important not to discount the value of soft skills, particularly if you’re looking to move up the data analytics career ladder . But which are the soft skills you need to set your data career on the track to success? Communication For candidates coming directly from university, one of the key ...
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Posted on Friday, May 7, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The first thing to say is that organisations need good compliance more than perhaps they even realise. It’s like a silent partner and bodyguard all in one, as with a strong compliance function you reduce your risk, operate on a proactive basis and within an ethical framework. With the traditional tick-box approach to compliance evolving in line with increasing regulatory pressures and tighter ...
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Posted on Friday, May 7, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 07 May 2021 A Penetration Tester (‘Pen’ Tester) or Ethical Hacker is the person you want attempting to break into your network, computer system, web or mobile application in order to find the holes before the criminals do. All organisations are riddled with vulnerabilities and the Pen Tester’s job is to find them so they can be fixed and thus lessen the risk of a cyber-attack. Pen ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It may seem like the simplest part to getting a job in audit, but the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of your CV is arguably the most critical element. It’s the first impression a recruiter gets of you that makes them decide whether you’re worth their time, and with reams of CVs in their inbox you need to make yours stand out… for all the right reasons. It should go without saying that all CVs regardless of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Want to impress in your Risk job interview? We have some tips to help give you the edge when it comes to what hiring managers are looking for in candidates for risk jobs . One thing to prepare for is that you may get an interviewer who is very technical and knowledgeable on a particular product, such as lending, cards, treasury or ethics. Thus, their line of questioning will likely focus on that ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data science jobs are no doubt in vogue right now, as the burgeoning field continues to evolve in its pursuit of utilising data analysis to inform important business decisions. For candidates wanting to break into a career in data science, we shed some light on how best to prepare for your job interview and what hiring managers are looking for. First thing to know is what specific data science ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 Mar 2021 If you want to work in cyber security but feel hesitant because you got your start in healthcare, or business, education, or have even taken time out for parenthood, take heart from the fact that as a still relatively young profession, even those at its helm are unlikely to have started their career working in cyber security. Don’t assume that coming from a non-technical ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It should come as no surprise that on graduating university, the simplest and most common route into a career in risk comes from entering one of the Big Four consultancy firms. Getting your start with the likes of PwC, KPMG, Deloitte or EY as an internal auditor or external auditor will give you a good grounding in risk and controls, as well as giving you a good overview of that space. However, ...
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Posted on Monday, March 8, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is the most common and popular trajectory for aspiring auditors, but is the Big Four the best launchpad for a career in audit? Compared with other consultancies it certainly holds stature on the job market, but does the Big Four have the edge on Tier Two firms? The Big Four is perfectly poised for starting a career on the global stage with a client roster that includes some of the best ...
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Posted on Friday, March 5, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Mar 2021 In a time of ‘unprecedented connectedness’ where the number and type of online devices multiplies seemingly daily and personal data is handed out as freely as candy at a kids party; our exposure to risk is at an all-time high when it comes to cyber-attacks. In a market economy that thrives on interconnectivity, there must be a strong sense of cyber security to protect ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most jobs require candidates to possess a balance of technical expertise and “soft” skills. Compliance jobs are no different. The function within a business that is designed to protect the company’s ethical integrity from becoming tainted by financial disrepute or similar; what are the skills a compliance professional needs to do that effectively? ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For a typical first line Risk Manager, the majority of his or her days are punctuated by the occurrence of incidents. Starting the day around 9am, risk incidents or events – different banks will assign different terminologies – drive much of what a Risk Manager will do on a day-to-day basis. The hours a Risk Manager keeps can be as generic as the typical ‘9 to 5’, or 9am-6pm in the case of Risk ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you want to work in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) then naturally the first thing is to understand that these terms refer to software that has been designed to learn in a similar way to humans. Utilising speech recognition, language translation, auto pilot features and so on, AI systems are gaining prevalence in the modern world. Before we tackle the ‘what’ ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 04 Feb 2021 Also known as a Computer Forensic Investigator, computer forensics analyst, digital forensics examiner and so on, digital forensics jobs involve the investigation and analysis of evidence extracted from computers, networks, mobile devices and more to identify the “suspect behind the keyboard”. Obtaining a bachelor’s degree in computer forensics, computer science, cyber ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As in many professions that have the capability to be reactive, working in compliance does not typically afford one a standard 9 to 5. The usual routine may begin with the checking of emails and calendar, but the contents of certainly one’s inbox is liable to direct the activity of the day. Reading the news and addressing the latest headlines from reputable regulatory blogs and related news ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It may surprise you to learn what can prevent a risk professional from landing his or her ideal role. From interpreting the job description to the interview process, some candidates can fall short in both impressing employers and instilling any sense of trust in their competency. Some risk professionals can seem to lack a real understanding about the purpose of working in risk or what risk ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you plan to have a successful career in audit, there are some things you need to know when starting out that will set you apart and set you up for the future. Simon Wright, Director of CareersinAudit.com, shares some practical points every first-year auditor should be aware of. Be Adaptable Being an auditor means being willing to go with the flow and be flexible. It is not a job that sees you ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by The Careers In Group — No comments
While focused on niche sectors of the employment and recruitment market, CareersinAudit.com and Careers In Group job boards and their users represent a small cross-section of the wider talent attraction industry. Diversity and Inclusion is just as important to specialist sectors as it is to the wider world of work. But what is diversity, why is it important for both business and talent ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2020 has been a year of great change and necessary technological advancement as remote working and business continuity headed up the bill thanks to COVID-19. Employment has inevitably taken a substantial hit and new graduates and more established professionals alike may be wondering what direction to take in the coming year in light of what the existing one has served up. A Career in Internal ...
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Posted on Friday, November 20, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As career paths go, the internal audit career path is a lucrative one given how high the demand is for Internal Auditors across numerous industries. The more regulated the world becomes across every industry, from banking and financial services to insurance and healthcare, the more driven companies become to reinforce their internal audit function. Internal Auditors provide the business they work ...
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Posted on Friday, November 20, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data Analyst is one of the hottest jobs on the current job market but in today’s ever-changing business landscape, what is the outlook for your career prospects long-term? The rise in demand for Data Analysts is of course a reflection of a general realisation across the business world that leveraging data equals better business. With more and more companies generating, collecting and storing ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A number of subsets exist within the risk career group, covering different areas of business including market risk, credit risk, conduct risk, technology risk and so on. Operational risk relates to the mitigation of risks that manifest from internal processes, people and systems. Any issues that arise when conducting business, such as power cuts, loss of employees, inability to access necessary ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The first thing to know about progressing to partner level in your external audit career is that once you reach senior management level there’s a fairly structured process in terms of what’s required of you in order for you to reach audit partner. If we’re looking at career progression within one of the Big Four accounting firms, the first thing to be mindful of is the variation in how that ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Nov 2020 In spite of how few businesses hold a digital presence in the Middle East, there is expected to be significant growth in its cyber security market. This is in part thanks to continuing security breaches across critical industries in the region and their increasingly sophisticated modes of attack. Government measures have responded in kind, implementing tougher regulations ...
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Posted on Friday, October 30, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 30 Oct 2020 The healthcare industry is an obvious target for cyber-crime. Rife with valuable personal data, the advent of technology has only made that information more accessible to those with malicious intent. Paperwork of old has now relocated to the cloud and database systems and while this has proven usefully efficient to patients and their medical practitioners, the increased ...
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Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 24 Oct 2020 The pandemic has been a key catalyst for companies to embrace remote working and accelerate their digital transformations. As a result, organisations have increased investment in technology infrastructure, the cloud and digital services to facilitate better communication amongst their scattered workforces. This report provides clarity on the rapidly changing security ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance jobs don’t tend to vary too much between industries. Certainly, the fundamental goals and responsibilities are universal in ensuring the legal and ethical compliance of the organisation as well as keeping it aligned with all applicable industry regulations. If you want to work in healthcare compliance, you can expect the role to cover most obvious bases but there are additional points ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2020 by Kathy Rees, author of Courageous Auditing — No comments
With years of auditing experience to my name, I have come to recognize the flaw in auditing education. Beyond technical training, little is offered to enhance and develop an auditor’s Emotional Intelligence (EQ). I have been an auditor in Australia for almost two decades and over this time have come to extensively pinpoint the failure of our auditing system. Auditing is a lifelong practice – one ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in external audit can be extremely rewarding. It plays on your strengths with numeracy, relationship management and communication, and your understanding of finance and business; all of which provide an excellent foundation for the progression of your audit career. The question is, in which direction will your career in external audit take you? Lars Sigmond, former External Auditor with ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You’re working as an Audit Senior, but you want to make the move to Audit Manager. You spend your days planning and executing risk-based internal audits for the business reporting to the role you’re aspiring to. So, what can you do to make your ambitions a reality? The greatest tip is to look for opportunities, typically at the start of an engagement, to have a discussion with the manager or ...
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Posted on Monday, September 21, 2020 by the Careers In Group — No comments
At the Careers In Group we’ve thought a lot about the Covid-19 crisis and how this will impact employers. Candidate attraction has changed considerably, with a firm shift to an employer-driven market. Candidates are now flooding the market and filtering through irrelevant CVs is a time-consuming task that should be avoided. It is currently a critical time for the industry and we are here to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Generally speaking, auditing looks much the same all over the world. This is largely because everyone is conducting their external audits in compliance with the same international auditing standards. Where the key differences lie is culturally. Lars Sigmond, former External Auditor for KPMG in the Netherlands and Brazil, says “Audits all over the world should be the same, the differences come in ...
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Posted on Monday, September 7, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Reading the job description will only get you so far when it comes to getting a sense of working in internal audit, so Simon Wright, Director of CareersinAudit.com spoke to a former Associate Director of Internal Audit at KPMG to understand what a day in the life of a Senior Internal Audit Manager really looks like. The first thing to acknowledge is that the role is pretty fluid. On any given day ...
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Posted on Friday, September 4, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 04 Sep 2020 As with most areas of cyber security, network security is one that is continuously evolving as the threat landscape changes, technology advances, and the relevant tools and software upgrade accordingly. A specialised field, network security focuses on the protection of an organisation’s computer network infrastructure, both internally and externally, via data analytics and ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 3, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When we talk about compliance, we’re referring to the business function that ensures an organisation adheres to external rules and internal controls. Within the financial services sector compliance teams must align the business with key regulatory objectives to protect investors and ensure the markets remain fair, efficient, and clear. They also work to reduce system risk and financial crime. ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Risk management exists to support organisations in making the key decisions that will help drive business forward; for every important decision there is an element of risk attached. The risk team helps the business put effective strategies in place to anticipate, manage and respond to future risks and scenarios. The first thing to decide when choosing to work in risk is the sector you would suit. ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
No one needs reminding that we are in challenging times. A small number of industries will benefit from current changes in economic patterns, but the majority will suffer. However, a lot of organisations will survive and thrive in the years ahead, this article looks at common actions and behaviours which maximise the likelihood of this outcome. The ideas in this article are not in any way new, ...
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Posted on Friday, August 28, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Just as businesses require an audit of their accounts and financial statements, so too their IT infrastructure, policies and operations need equal evaluation. This is where IT Audit comes in. IT Auditors examine those technical areas of the business to see where improvements can be made and make recommendations to the board. IT Audit can typically be categorised into three separate work streams: ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Business Analysts are a highly valued role in many companies. But what exactly makes a Business Analyst so vital? And, why are these analysts considered one of the top, indispensable positions in many businesses? Business Analysts are predicted to shape the future of business in many ways. The scope of their role is fairly broad and undefined to a degree. As a surface level summary, a Business ...
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Posted on Monday, August 24, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Objectivity is key in business. It sends out the right message to interested parties that the business is being run properly, keeps the business compliant and adds a layer of transparency to internal proceedings to ensure any issues are identified quickly. External auditors are the key to this objectivity, acting as a much-needed ‘fresh pair of eyes’ to financial statements and accounts and ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Over the last few months several trends have emerged relating to internal audit and business operations, many of which are of great interest. However, this article focuses on the emerging risks that have been highlighted most often among organisations during the Covid-19 crisis. These risks will to a greater or lesser extent be relevant across all sectors and company sizes. What are the emerging ...
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Posted on Monday, August 10, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to the second instalment of the 'World of Audit' video interview series, created and carried out by Michael Rose of Five One Recruitment . These interviews are designed to give auditors, and those interested in pursuing a career in audit, an inside view on the way audit is approached around the world, and the latest trends and insights on issues facing the audit industry as a whole. In ...
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Posted on Monday, August 3, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re working in assurance or hoping to start a career in assurance, an important step in finding a new assurance job is of course getting through the interview. But what is expected and what kinds of questions might be asked? Typically, the questions vary based on your experience level. So, we’ve put together some example questions that you might face at each level to help you prepare. ENTRY ...
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Posted on Saturday, August 1, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Careers in Quantitive Analytics are competitive and demanding with long hours and heavy workloads common. However, it is a job surprisingly untouched by bureaucracy, internal politics or personal networks. With dedication, work ethic and knowledge the main drivers for success, those with an analytics passion are being drawn more and more to a career in Quantitative Analytics. Below outlines what ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Any company operating successfully in this day and age, no matter its capacity, needs to effectively leverage its technology systems and make effective use of data. It is inevitable now that if a company wants to progress it must make a significant investment in technology. While these technology investments and innovations are required, it comes at a cost. This increased dependence on IT by ...
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Posted on Monday, July 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance, though incredibly crucial to the success of any business, does not typically come under the list of dream jobs of young professionals. Most people who find themselves working in compliance, journey there by way of careers in areas including policy, law, accounting or finance. All solid launchpads to a compliance career with a number of transferable skills; though it is understanding ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 21 Jul 2020 2020 has quickly claimed the award for ‘the year that put remote working on the map’, for obvious reasons. In business terms this equates to a significant increase in devices carrying sensitive company data and thus an even greater risk of a cyber criminal hacking in. Remote working aside, more and more companies have been gradually transferring their data over to the cloud ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 by the Careers In Group — No comments
Here at the Careers In Group we’ve thought a lot about the Covid-19 crisis and how this will impact employers. There is no doubt that recruitment has changed considerably and will be changed for the foreseeable future, with a firm shift to an employer-driven market. How will this impact businesses and what can you do to ensure you are securing the best talent in a timely and cost-effective ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 9, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There are a number of avenues into a career in audit. The most common and arguably most traditional route is to start with one of the Big Four accounting firms following graduation. There you would get your grounding in risk advisory services running internal audits or join the assurance/financial audit function and complete your Chartered Accounting (CA) qualification before looking to move from ...
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Posted on Monday, June 22, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 22 Jun 2020 One of the greatest aspects of the Cyber Security industry is the sheer breadth of roles it encompasses. While the terminology in job titles can seem confusing to those outside the industry or new to the field (think ‘Penetration Tester’ and ‘Ethical Hacker’ as examples), those in the know recognize the subtle differences between the many role titles within Cyber Security ...
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Posted on Monday, June 1, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A career in Data Science requires a mix of technical expertise, an array of soft skills to match and considerable experience on top of this. These three areas need to not just be grasped but rather refined and flawless to even get a top employer’s attention. Below explores how a Data Scientist should best communicate their potential on paper and how to have your CV stand out (and above) on the ...
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Posted on Friday, May 15, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether working as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst or even a Web Analyst, there are some tools and knowledge that span the entire analytics field. No matter the speciality, these are the skills that every analyst needs to know from the get-go: Programming Languages Undoubtedly the most important skill for any analyst is knowledge of programming languages. Think SQL, Python, R and Oracle – ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Disconnected compliance functions are a proven fast track to corporate scandal. Just look to Volkswagen, Enron and the countless other companies with the scars of compliance scandals forever tied to their name and degrading their reputation. Despite the growing list of examples, disconnect continues to trouble businesses with compliance vulnerabilities still present across various sectors. With ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 13 May 2020 Are the cyber hygiene practices followed by your business up to scratch? While a one hundred percent cyber hygiene score would be the ideal goal for any business, unfortunately, this is rarely the case. In fact, confusion around whose job is it to maintain a company’s cyber hygiene is normally where a business can fall short. So, how exactly is cyber hygiene maintained? And ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to a special episode of the 'World of Audit' video interview series on the fraud & corruption risks that companies are now facing due to Covid-19. In this episode, Michael speaks with Alex Gaft, CFE CISA (Global Manager Cyber Security & Fraud at ICL Group in Israel), Marcio Ferreira CA, CIA (International Controls and Compliance Manager at Appian Capital in Brazil) and Nikolay Kolesnikov, ...
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Posted on Monday, May 4, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The world as we know it will continue to be increasingly driven by data. From a corporate perspective, data analytics is the tool that helps business owners in this day and age both understand how their business is faring and pinpoint areas that need attention. In its function to deliver critical insights as to whether a business is moving in the right direction, data analytics is fundamentally ...
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Posted on Monday, May 4, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to the third instalment of the 'World of Audit' video interview series, created and carried out by Michael Rose of Five One Recruitment . In this two-part episode, Michael interviews Lech Olszak, Director of Internal Audit (America region) at Faurecia. He talks about what attracted him to Internal Audit in the first place, the importance of having external audit experience, transitioning ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 28 Apr 2020 For many professionals an internship is a right of passage. An in-between phase bridging university and the dreaded, or anticipated, full-time world. For the lucky few, an internship can even lead to job offers. However, looking at the cyber security industry directly, many cyber novices question whether an internship in the cyber realm is as important as other industries. ...
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Posted on Monday, April 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Confidence is vital in almost every position. From leadership roles to middle management and below, those with confidence all unite through their shared level of empowerment. Connected through their self-belief in their own ability and value. Risk Management takes the need for self-confidence one step further. Risk Managers are constantly operating in an environment of expectation from both ...
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Posted on Monday, April 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Considering a career as a Business Analyst? As a high paying and highly desirable analyst pathway, working as a Business Analyst is a cool career choice. However, like many analyst jobs, understanding exactly what the role entails can be tricky to define. What does a Business Analyst do? At a surface level, a Business Analyst is a career pathway within the Information Technology family. There are ...
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Posted on Monday, April 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance scandals are not a new issue, however, the shifting of blame is. This shift has seen the fault narrow from the business as a whole to the compliance team or Compliance Officer responsible for the business's operations. As the latest compliance scandals emerge, the root issues are being increasingly tied to negligence from the businesses’ compliance teams. Whether stemming from cover-up ...
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Posted on Monday, April 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The role of an IT Auditor within an organisation is to maintain the security of the company’s IT systems, ensuring they are efficient and cost effective. They must maintain the firm’s internal controls, records and data as well as to help organisations operate within the law to guarantee they’re not in breach of compliance and regulatory standards. When it comes to the types of questions an ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to the second instalment of the 'World of Audit' video interview series, created and carried out by Michael Rose of Five One Recruitment . These interviews are designed to give auditors, and those interested in pursuing a career in audit, an inside view on the way audit is approached around the world, and the latest trends and insights on issues facing the audit industry as a whole. In ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data Science is a hot job. In fact, it was labelled the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review. It’s a lucrative and challenging career area that is consistently expanding. Despite the industry’s glamour, Data Scientists are quitting at concerning rates. With the talent pool diminishing, it begs the question - what is driving Data Scientists to leave their jobs? The Data ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What does compliance mean to a business? At its core it refers to the steps an organisation must take to ensure it is acting responsibly and in line with the law. Compliance defines the values and ethics of an organisation and works to create an environment within which all employees understand and refer to them and by extension agree to be held accountable by them as well. Operating from a ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 Apr 2020 A Security Engineer, bridging the gap between engineering and information security, is a highly desirable tech job. It is one without a cookie cutter fit and a role that probably looks different every day of the working week. Find out why a career in Security Engineering is one of the coolest jobs in the information security sphere. What does a Security Engineer do? ...
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Posted on Friday, April 3, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Despite it only being March, the past three months have felt like a decade. The current world pandemic, better known as COVID-19, is wreaking havoc globally and unfortunately, the world economy has already taken a massive hit. The coming recession brings a host of uncertainties for businesses and professionals. When the COVID-19 dust eventually settles, business as usual for many companies will ...
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Posted on Friday, April 3, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether your interviewer is located far from where you are or just a business’ preference, the job interview process is being shifted more and more towards the online space. Whether it is Zoom, Skype or even Google Hangout, online interviews are now somewhat the norm during the pandemic lockdown and may become much more utilised from here on. While it can be easy to fall into the trap of seeing ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 2, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Coronavirus outbreak has brought with it a whole host of unpleasant side effects, not least of which is a state of uncertainty where employment is concerned. However, in spite of the potential layoffs and hiring freezes taking hold of the global business world, the cogs continue to turn, just perhaps a little more slowly. So what can candidates do to ward off not only the symptoms of COVID-19 ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When we think of corporate governance most of us will likely immediately relate it to the prevention of things like fraud and scandal if implemented correctly. It is equally important to acknowledge the need for corporate governance measures that protect organisations in the instance of a natural disaster or other unexpected event. Effective corporate governance fosters a culture of integrity. ...
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Posted on Monday, March 30, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to the first of the 'World of Audit' video interview series, created and carried out by Michael Rose of Five One Recruitment . These interviews are designed to give auditors, and those interested in pursuing a career in audit, an inside view on the way audit is approached around the world, and the latest trends and insights on issues facing the audit industry as a whole. Michael Rose is ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 19 Mar 2020 Planning for the possible questions you’ll be asked when interviewing for a job in cyber security depends largely on the organisation you’re hoping to work for and the area of cyber security you’re experienced in. Most university graduates, coming from a degree in computer science, cyber security or similar should be focusing their job search on those entry level roles that ...
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Posted on Friday, March 6, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The role of an External Auditor is to come into an organisation sans bias and review their financial information. From their findings they can gauge whether a company is operating efficiently and within the law. These findings are then relayed to relevant parties, including key business stakeholders, the board and in some cases, government entities. So, what are employers and hiring managers ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It may seem like a narrow pathway but in reality working in compliance offers impressive variety. Whether working internally or externally, in the government sector or healthcare industry, the opportunities for employment are diverse as are the compliance positions. The below explores how a compliance specialist, analyst, advisor and consultant differ under the compliance umbrella. Before the ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Considering taking your analytics career to a Big Four firm? Whether starting out in the field or considering a lateral move, working at either KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY) or Deloitte may be the right fit for your analytics career. Below explores the positives and drawbacks of working in Data Analytics and Data Science at one of the world’s largest professional services ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Mar 2020 Are you a cyber professional plagued with self-doubt? You’re not alone. More than half of those working in the cyber security industry feel the same. A recent survey found that of the 10,400 cyber professionals questioned, over 58 percent admit to suffering from imposter syndrome despite working for major global companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon. The question is ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Mar 2020 More and more Cyber Security professionals are embracing a nomadic lifestyle and taking their career global. Bouncing between incredible locations without sacrificing their career prospects, it is no wonder onlookers are asking how. How are these cyber professionals doing it? And, how can you join them? The digital nomad concept centres around a laptop. More specifically, ...
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Posted on Monday, March 2, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Auditing has been an enticing career path for decades. It is a role that has continually evolved, adapting with the wider evolution of the business world, from technology advancements to regulatory changes. With progression in role function and importance, comes revision of salary, and for audit jobs, this is no different. So, how have salaries for auditors progressed in response to the continual ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Climate change is undoubtedly one of the largest global issues of the coming decade. Its impacts continue to creep into day-to-day and wider year-to-year aspects of life, with people, businesses and the environment all affected by the global environmental changes. As the effects of climate change are experienced around the world, humans are being forced to adapt and accommodate for these changes ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data Analysts are in huge demand, as are Big Data experts. Yet confusion surrounds the factors differentiating the two fields. Are they the same job with two differing job titles? Or, are they completely different roles? Defining the Roles Data Analysis is all about extracting insights from raw data. Data Analytics professionals are typically tasked with a question, or set of questions, that need ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2020 by BDO for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
Achieve the extraordinary with BDO East Anglia Auditors at BDO East Anglia unanimously agree - working for the firm has never been more rewarding. Over the past five years, BDO East Anglia has reshaped their culture and seen a workplace beaming with #EAPride (East Anglia pride) emerge. This pride is reflected in everything BDO do, from their recent hires to those at director level. It is a ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Feb 2020 With demand for Cyber Security professionals continuing to outpace nearly every other industry, the qualifications and requirements for landing a job in this field are somewhat tricky to pinpoint. Whether looking to work as a Cyber Security Analyst or succeed as a Cyber Security Engineer, is a degree necessary to carve out a career in Cyber Security? Simply put, yes - ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Feb 2020 The Cyber Security industry has seen continual change in the last ten years, with new technologies and cyber security issues evolving at a pace unlike anything seen before. The industry’s growth reached an unprecedented level with the likes of ‘cryptocurrency’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ transforming from little-known terms to household phrases. The growth of the Cyber ...
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Posted on Friday, February 21, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 21 Feb 2020 Application Security is the practice applied to the installation, use and development of applications. Most companies nowadays have an App linked with their business, from banks to retail and healthcare organisations and everything in between. However, with the addition of applications comes another point of attack for hackers, a fact that is evident in the number of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Considering a career as a Data Architect ? Not sure where to start? We break down exactly what working in Data Architecture entails and how to best get your foot into one of the most challenging data fields. What does a Data Architect do? Bridging business strategy with technical execution, it is the job of a Data Architect to articulate how data is “collected, stored, transformed, distributed ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The analytics field is one guaranteed to look different from sector to sector. And, the scope of role within these sectors sees the work of analytics novices a far cry from those sitting at the board table. Below delves into the career progression of an analytics professional, from graduate to C-suite, and the skills needed for long-term trajectory. Entry-Level Analytics Having a university ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether incorporated as part of a larger audit or conducted independently, social media should be on an auditor’s radar. After all, a company without a social media presence is essentially unheard of in today’s digitally driven era. The need for social media audits centres around risk and governance. Whilst auditors do not write social media policies, an audit of these policies and practices ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2020 by MHA Larking Gowen for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
In our increasingly busy world, many auditors are taking a more holistic approach when evaluating their career choices than they have in the past. Gone are the days when the company name was the first thing jobseekers were looking for in a job advertisement, followed closely by the salary on offer – today’s auditors are looking for more than just a brand to put on their CV. Flexible working, ...
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Posted on Monday, February 3, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Merging the roles of Data Analyst and Data Scientist, a career in Data Engineering may be the perfect pathway for data gurus in search of a lucrative salary and career longevity. What is Data Engineering? Working alongside Data Scientists, Data Engineers are responsible for readying data for either operational or analytical use. A Data Engineer’s work can be funneled down to three main areas of ...
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Posted on Friday, January 31, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In an Analytics job interview, it’s not just what you say, but how you say it that is important. While technical skills, qualifications and experience will be the main areas an Analyst job candidate will be evaluated on during a job interview, there are other skills that can help you stand out amongst the competition. Set yourself apart from the other applicants on these skills, and you could be ...
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Posted on Monday, January 27, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The term ‘analyst’ is rarely a job title seen alone. Whether financial, data, research, quantitative, digital or even risk, the analytics scope is seemingly unending. Below expands on three of these analytics titles, exploring what Data, Research and Financial Analytics entail and how each of these roles are distinct. Data Analyst Arguably the most well-known within the analytics family, those ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data Science is a discipline that incorporates the application of statistics, data analysis, machine learning and computer science. The goal? To get value from data through analysis so as to better understand how a business is performing. With this information, the Data Scientist builds AI tools to automate certain processes within the organisation. There are a number of tools at the Data ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Careers in Risk Management are essentially careers managing the unknown. Whether considering internal or external factors, risks are an obvious and unavoidable factor of any business. Yet, when looking beyond these continual risk hurdles, Risk Managers are tasked with another everyday challenge – managing. Beyond simply being an aspect of any managerial role, proactive risk management is ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 09 Jan 2020 Looking for a new challenge, fancy switching jobs or wondering which ones are futureproof? We've delved into techie cyber-space, with a helping hand from expert Simon Wright, director at CareersinCyber.com and CareersinRisk.com, to find out which jobs will be the hot tech, cyber and risk opportunities in 2020 and beyond. Data Scientist Data Science is the process of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Data Analyst interviews are notoriously technical. Interviewers are known for putting theoretical knowledge on blast and expertise to the test, and with possible questioning broad, feeling fully prepared can pose a challenge. Below covers just the surface of those frequently asked interview questions, from basic to personal, that Data Analysts can anticipate. The Technical Questions "Talk us ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Diversity, in all forms, enriches business beyond just reputational benefits. Tied with an increased bottom line, companies championing diversity dominate their gender-homogeneous counterparts by 85% percent when looking at financial return and 50% when considering performance, according to a recent PwC survey. Research by McKinsey mimics PwC’s findings, reporting that “companies in the top ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
From the rise of flexitime to homeworking, flexible working strategies are receiving some serious airtime in the auditing and accounting arena. With 63 percent of full-time employees already working with some form of flexible working arrangements, workplace flexibility is both in demand and on the rise. Top tier companies are rolling out flexible working policies in conjunction with their ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 08 Jan 2020 One-third of businesses are still failing to meet GDPR compliance according to new research by RSM. Despite the regulation being in full effect for well over a year, only 57 percent are confident in their businesses’ compliance and another thirteen percent are uncertain either way. With GDPR now erased from the priority list for a third of survey respondents, middle market ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 08 Jan 2020 Beyond university qualifications, certifications are a great addition or even alternative for Information Security professionals at every level. Some of the certifications, which are available by the hundreds, hold as much value as a degree or professional experience in the eyes of employers. Whether advancing your career is the intention or simply getting your foot in the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 08 Jan 2020 The cyber industry has huge potential for professionals – from growing demand to continually increasing salaries and varied opportunities, we have listed the three main reasons why pursuing a path in cyber security is worth your consideration. 1. Growing Demand for Professionals The demand for cyber security professionals has never been greater and with the predicted 3.5 ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 08 Jan 2020 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are tasked with many challenges, but arguably the biggest headache of the role surrounds getting that elusive board buy-in. With responsibility for a company's information security falling to CISOs, those struggling to achieve this all-important buy-in see their company a ground for cybercrime and security vulnerabilities. An ...
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Posted on Monday, January 6, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Alan Turing pre-empted the era of machine learning, saying in 1947: “What we want is a machine that can learn from experience.” From the birth of computers and then the internet to a world practically ruled by technology, Machine Learning has manifested. What is Machine Learning? Machine Learning is essentially the marriage of machine and artificial intelligence that enables said machine to ...
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Posted on Monday, January 6, 2020 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Exploring careers under the analytics umbrella, whether considering data analytics, business analytics, big data analytics or even data science, uncovers diverse pathways that share a surprisingly homogeneous foundation. With most entering the wider field from a Data Analyst route, foundational requirements of all analytics positions see fundamentals like Python, SQL and statistics degrees a ...
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Posted on Monday, January 6, 2020 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 06 Jan 2020 Alan Turing pre-empted the era of machine learning, saying in 1947: “What we want is a machine that can learn from experience.” From the birth of computers and then the internet to a world practically ruled by technology, Machine Learning has manifested. What is Machine Learning? Machine Learning is essentially the marriage of machine and artificial intelligence that ...
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Posted on Friday, December 13, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Auditing fundamentals for those in the external arena can be funnelled down to five key points: honesty, innovation, empathy, familiarity and independence. With these five skills in grasp, External Auditors are best prepared to succeed. But what to each of these points cover? We take a closer look: Honesty, always Remaining honest seems obvious, but when dealing with global corporations and ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 28 Nov 2019 Ethical Hackers, not to be confused with their malicious counterparts, are computer security experts in high demand. With pay substantial and creativity required, the role of an Ethical Hacker entails protecting information so it stays as intended - confidential. The Role Malicious Hackers and Ethical Hackers work in almost identical ways, using overlapping methodologies ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As compliance expectations periodically grow, the need to look external is driving the compliance outsourcing trend. Increasingly stringent regulations , the talent crisis and diminishing compliance budgets are the pressures driving outsourcing, alongside the rising reputational pressure connected to compliance scandals. One-quarter of companies have already turned to these third-party options ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Despite the evolving risk landscape threatening to redefine the Risk Management skillset, those fundamental skills at a Risk Manager’s core have proven unscathed. Below outlines those technical and soft skills that will continue to hold relevancy for Risk Managers in the technological era. Highlighted on their CV and developed throughout their career, with the below four skills Risk Managers can ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Entering the Data Science workforce can require fielding, navigating and patience. Even with the technical chops and an academic foundation, getting into Data Science is not as easy as some perceive. Below outlines advice for novice Data Scientists looking to enter the expansive Data Science industry. The CV This one to two-page document needs to cover a lot for Data Scientists. Beyond previous ...
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Posted on Monday, November 25, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Nov 2019 Mental health and cyber security frequently feature in the same sentence. With stress often a concern, the industry has become witness to burnout at a staggering rate. Issues of fatigue and burnout, when coupled with the growing skills shortage and diversifying cybercrime landscape, have made the burden of burnout a daily concern for over half of cyber professionals ...
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Posted on Friday, November 22, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Looking for a new medium to keep you risk management aware? Consider podcasts – perfect for the daily commute and handsfree learning. The below podcasts are the best subscriptions to get the latest in risk management directly on your phone and in your ears. Mastering Risk Management Podcast with Anthony Wilson Covering topical risks and interviewing industry experts, this bi-monthly Australian ...
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Posted on Friday, November 22, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 22 Nov 2019 The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the latest regulation to attempt to control the murky world of personal data. With strong ties to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), CCPA is among a myriad of global data controls coming that will attempt to tip the scales on privacy and control. The act comes into effect on January 1st 2020, with enforcement taking ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 21 Nov 2019 You may not know much about the dark web, but it may know things about you. What is the Dark Web? The dark web is a part of the internet that is not visible to search engines. What makes the dark web, dark? It allows users to anonymise their identity by hiding their IP addresses. This makes those using the dark web nearly impossible to identify. Only 4% of the internet is ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The job of Data Scientists and Data Analysts can be described as interconnected, but distinct differences divide these two roles. From mathematical expertise to interpersonal skills, both fields look to professionals with skills ranging from problem solving and investigate know-how to a technical skillset that is refined and expansive. Yet, when delved further, the divide between analytics and ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As the move to automation progresses, Machine Learning is steadily becoming one of the most attractive fields for professionals. Stemming from artificial intelligence, Machine Learning aims to minimize human efforts by ‘teaching’ machines to learn automatically. Achieved through analytical model building, it follows the idea that machines can learn patterns through data to then make human ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Storytelling is one of the most powerful professional skillsets, irrespective of the industry or position. Humans have evolved through storytelling. Our minds are attuned to a good story; they hold the power to engage audiences, capture interest and compel action. The mind, however, has not yet evolved to view data, statistics and facts in the same capacity. Nor have humans evolved to fluently ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Dubbed “The Sexiest job of the 21st Century” by the Harvard Business Review, data science has seen explosive growth in the pasted decade. From the growing demand to great C-suite recognition, data science is everywhere in 2019 – including in our ears. Podcast have become the latest industry trend with numbers reaching well into the hundreds. With this abundance overwhelming, ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Analytics is a hot market to work in as the business of data continues to grow and evolve. In a consultancy role, you will be examining systems with a view to proposing ways of improving data and its usage within an organisation. It’s more than likely that you’d be entering the world of consultancy with a number of years’ work experience to your name. Whether you’ve come from a career in ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The amount of data being produced and consumed today has created a new and strong demand for skilled data professionals. Undoubtedly, one of the hottest career paths on the current job scene, Data Analytics jobs are available across a variety of industries from healthcare and marketing to finance and logistics. For candidates considering a career in Data Analytics here is our guide to helping you ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With data surrounding everything, it is no surprise that in today’s business and technology driven world, understanding the insights held within this data has become indispensable. This quest for insight has catapulted the role of Data Analyst into a highly sought-after career pathway with annual demand anticipated to reach 700,000 new recruitments by 2020. Data Analytics involves converting raw ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The world, more and more, is leaning heavily toward automated processes, the ease of artificial intelligence (AI) and the support of machine learning. As a result, job opportunities are increasingly prevalent in those areas. AI is used in almost every industry, presenting a viable platform for career opportunities as more and more brands and businesses adopt its functionality to streamline their ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whilst the qualifications and technical experience required of Data Analytics professionals is somewhat conclusive, those soft skills employers screen for remain undervalued by professionals. Soft skills are becoming increasingly esteemed for those working in the field as the importance of understanding and utilising data in becoming more widely adopted by all departments in a company. After all, ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Our digital footprint is something which more and more, businesses are having to consider far more carefully, both as a source of customer insight and as a means of improving internal efficiencies. There is a great demand for analytics professionals in the UK, as British organisations recognise the value of hiring data experts, particularly those with an advanced skillset. The need of course ...
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Posted on Monday, November 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether looking for an entry-level position in Data Analytics or searching to move into the expansive field of Machine Learning, creating a free account on CareersinAnalytics.com offers ongoing benefits. An account not only leads top employers directly to your profile, it also allows one-click applications, personalised job alerts and a host of other benefits. Our extensive, industry leading CV ...
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Posted on Friday, November 15, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With the nature of risk broad and highly diverse, the high-threat risks facing one sector can be completely unique when compared to another. CareersinRisk.com have broken down the top risks facing the four leading industry sectors below. Financial Services The financial services sector continues to be the top risk target given the lucrative money, data and power contained within the sector. ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by Mazars UK for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
Elisabeth Maxwell, Mazars UK Executive Member, shares her views on traits of a successful auditor… Be Curious… What do I love most about being an auditor? It’s our responsibility not to automatically believe what we’re being told! If something doesn’t feel like it adds up, despite what the numbers are telling you – ask yourself and others why. Think of the bigger picture. Numbers are crucial to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whilst technical knowledge and business acumen rank highly of those required compliance competencies, when delved further, compliance professionals with a well-rounded soft skill set bring the real added value. Below categorises the top soft skills for compliance professionals wanting to maximise their employability and longevity in the industry. Ethical Integrity A compliance fundamental - ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The notion of ‘digital fitness’, as coined by PwC’s 2019 Global Risk, Internal Audit and Compliance Survey , looks at bringing internal audit and the wider organisation back on the same page. With technology gaps widening, companies without alignment saw digital transforming almost everything. Internal audit, however, was lacking dexterity to swiftly pivot and keep pace with the advisory and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Risk management – highly diverse and highly collaborative. A career in risk management is underpinned by communication. Communication is infused throughout every function of risk management. This communication is a multidirectional process which calls for risk information to freely flow throughout the organisation. Whether communicating with the board, stakeholders, partners, employees or ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 12 Nov 2019 Once upon a time, cyber security jobs were a novel concept, little understood and assumed to have something to do with IT. Fast forward to the back end of 2019 and cyber security is practically a household name. In its evolution it has spawned its own brand of job delineations as new technologies have emerged, threats have intensified and the tools with which hackers ...
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Posted on Friday, November 8, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
CareersinAudit.com’s annual survey 2019 took a focus on cyber and data security, delving into the top risks concerning those in Audit, Risk, Compliance and Accountancy. The results were telling, with data breaches unanimously king concern for companies across the board. Unsurprisingly again, the shifting regulatory environment of the past few years added these changes as the second headache for ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 22 Oct 2019 Whilst highly valued in any profession, communication is undoubtedly the most vital skill for cyber professionals even in comparison to the technical hard skills. The stereotypical cliché that cyber professionals are socially awkward introverts no longer holds truth. Simply put – companies cannot afford to hire cyber professionals unable to operate as part of the larger ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 22 Oct 2019 Whether searching for a Security Engineering position or a role as an Ethical Hacker, creating a free account on CareersinCyber.com is the best way to secure your ideal cyber job. Let leading employers find you by uploading your CV, specifying your job preferences, setting up email alerts and shortlisting jobs are among some of the benefits of creating on account on ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 22 Oct 2019 Pursuing a career in the Cyber Security Engineering realm is one that does require qualifications, experience and a well-developed skill set. But boasting lucrative pay and plenty of progression opportunities, a Cyber Security Engineering position is a career worth pursuing. As an information security and cyber security professional, a Cyber Security Engineer works across a ...
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Posted on Monday, October 21, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When financial crime and the financial services sector are hitting headlines, the news is rarely positive. Whether the headline surrounds money laundering scandals or heightened regulations, financial crime is not lacking headline making news. Financial crime, thanks to globalisation and technology, is diversifying and leaving businesses in the financial services sector increasingly vulnerable. ...
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Posted on Monday, October 21, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The business landscape is experiencing a compliance shift. Consider GDPR, cognitive technologies and the #MeToo movement - these global changes are responsible for rapidly shifting how businesses operate and the role compliance needs to adopt. This ever-changing and often unpredictable environment has left modern compliance at the epicenter of all organisations, not just those companies operating ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Just when companies feel they can finally breathe in the wake of GDPR , the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) throws another curveball forcing companies to assess their data protection practices – again. Despite almost one-third of companies still failing to meet GDPR compliance, the new landmark privacy law is the second hurdle for companies, many of whom are still struggling to face the ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Staying informed in the auditing world is becoming easier and easier, and arguably the easiest and most convenient of these channels, podcasts, should not be an overlooked information channel by auditors. CareersinAudit.com have compiled our top six podcast picks that we continually look towards to stay informed and entertained. 1. ISACA Podcast ISACA, an independent, nonprofit, global ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Employees have indisputably become the greatest vulnerability to a company. Despite more individuals becoming savvy to the online risks that could leave them and their company vulnerable, the number of hacks from the likes of phishing scams, malware vulnerabilities and hacking continue to climb. Thirty percent of employees still are unaware of what the terms ‘phishing’ and ‘malware scams’ ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When it comes to pursuing an auditing position across any level, competition is steep and the calibre of talent is high. Knowing what employers are looking for, whether it is those hard skills or soft, will give you the edge to stand out against the growingly competitive talent pool. In today’s environment the technical skills have become expected from auditors. Having them alone fails to leave a ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With compliance becoming a pivotal business consideration, professionals are left scrambling to stay updated with the evolving demands of ‘compliance’. We’ve compiled our top podcasts that promise to keep you updated. Each uniquely span compliance from expert hosts who truly know the industry. 1. FCPA Compliance Report With his 35 years of law experience, the Compliance Evangelist Tom Fox ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When working up the compliance career ladder, the role of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is an aspiration position at the top of the profession. Requiring one to be both a leader and expert, the role is a position which holds considerable power, influence and lucrative finance salaries. Looking beyond these lucrative salaries, the average of which is currently £136,738 annually in the UK , demand ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by GIAA for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
Whilst perceived by some outsiders as over-regulated and lacking progression opportunities, the Government Sector can promise to be anything but. The sector offers an enticing arena for auditors seeking influence, fulfilment and long-term career prospects, along with a platform to implement change on an immediate and widescale level. With pathways and departments diverse, CareersinAudit.com sat ...
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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 11 Oct 2019 It’s a statistic that is monopolizing cyber headlines and leaving employers pre-emptively sweating – 3.5 million cyber security jobs will remain unfilled by 2021. In a time when the need for cyber professionals has never seen such significance, the coming skills shortage is raising some serious concerns. Hiring for long-term prospects is an immediate requirement but to find ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 3, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 03 Oct 2019 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545; min-height: 14.0px} When contemplating a career in cyber security and deliberating whether a lateral move would be worthwhile or the pursuit of up-skilling in a certain area, there are two schools of ...
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Posted on Monday, September 30, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has caused an evolution of the regulatory landscape in the EU and arguably worldwide. Almost fifteen months later, CareersinCompliance thought it was time to unpack GDPR’s impact and look the where the regulation is focussed next. With the initial fear stemming from the possibility of €20 million fines or 4% of a company’s global turnover, aligning ...
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Posted on Monday, September 30, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 30 Sep 2019 It has been a cyber buzz of 2019. Gender equality in the cyber space has saturated the media and when combined with the predicted 3.5 million cyber security job openings by 2021, it is evident why the issue has monopolised headlines. The need for gender equality and diversity spans industries yet the cyber space continues to lag whilst others flourish, or rather – ...
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Posted on Monday, September 30, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 30 Sep 2019 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545; min-height: 14.0px} Whilst closely linked and often used interchangeably by most, Information Security and Cyber Security are not synonymous. On a basic level both focus on protecting sensitive company ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A recent report by ICAEW revealed some worrying figures on the pay disparity in accountancy and auditing. With the gap widening 5.4 percent since 2014, the report highlighted the average annual salary for males in senior auditing to be £100,900 compared to the female average of £63,900. This is a huge difference of 37 percent. The accounting and auditing profession offer excellent career ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whilst the perfect job is a fictional idea, a great job is not. Yet finding this elusive great job that manages to tick both your must-have and nice-to-have boxes can take considerable searching. For auditors, the Big Four represent a dominating portion of the industry. These four privately owned firms – KPMG, Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) represent the powerhouses ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The recent vulnerability exposure of Slack, the American cloud-based team collaboration online tool provider, has raised renewed scepticism surrounding the safety of workplace communication platforms. With the assumption that internal networks like Slack, TeamViewer and Teams mean guaranteed security, attacks stemming from these platforms are catching companies vulnerable. Especially with those ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If the news is anything to go by it’s looking more and more likely that Boris Johnson, unwittingly or not, is leading the UK towards a no deal Brexit. An uncertain state of affairs to say the least and one which will undoubtedly stir the nerves of businesses. For those working in audit , these are the things to consider as the 31 October deadline looms. The most practical advice is of course to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The European Union (EU) has just announced the EU Whistleblower Directive, an EU-wide protection which is the first of its kind for whistleblowers. Referred to as “pathbreaking legislation” by Transparency International , the legislation ensures a high level of protection against the conscious and inadvertent retaliation typically inflicted on whistleblowers. The call for stronger protection was ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 17 Sep 2019 With increasing cyber attacks linking back to insiders, are employees the greatest threat to a company’s security? Whether the insider is a disgruntled colleague, third party contractor or a careless employee, the potential enormity of a cyber attack from the inside is an underacknowledged threat. With these insider-caused incidents costing organisations almost double that ...
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Posted on Monday, September 16, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether actively or passively looking, creating a free account on CareersinAudit.com offers ongoing benefits. Having an account allows you to upload your CV , specify your Job Preferences , create a shortlist of jobs and instantly apply for positions. Our CV database is the first point of call for recruiters when searching for skill professionals. Uploading your CV as part of your ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Sep 2019 Artificial Intelligence is an indisputable factor in the way we do business now and it will only continue to reinforce our processes and operations moving forward. Driven by big data analytics, supervised and unsupervised machine learning; the question is to what degree the power of AI can change the face of cybersecurity in order to streamline business? At face value, ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With its reimagined approach to businesses’ technology, the growth of cloud computing has become one of the fastest growing in the IT Industry. Despite its attractiveness, this relatively new environment has been a slow adoption process for some companies with compliance concerns at the top of the hesitation list. This shift towards the cloud is now being referred to as the ‘Next Architecture’ ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 Aug 2019 The combined talent shortage along with the proliferation of technology and an avalanche of data have created a goldmine for cyber criminals. With more than 40 percent of CEOs highlighting cyber threats as a top concern, businesses are left scrambling to keep afloat as technology continues to develop at an impossible rate. This cycle of catch up leaves businesses focussing ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 1, 2019 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
The business landscape has certainly developed since our 2013 article on why risk management is important in an organisation on CareersinAudit.com, yet to this day it remains one of our most popular resources. With businesses shifting to digital, and data breaches and cyber threats proving costly to organisation’s bottom line and reputation, the relevance of Risk Management has only heightened ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 1, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The past two to three years has seen a shift in jobseekers’ priorities. High salary positions with top tier companies are no longer enough – jobseekers are now taking a more holistic approach to job hunting; considering factors such as career progression, company ethics and work-life balance as far more important evaluation tools than they have done in the past. Our recent survey revisited ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 Jul 2019 Daily reports of cyber-attacks, heightened regulatory change and data protection laws has created even more demand for cyber security professionals. The current recruitment crisis has left demand for cyber security experts at an unprecedented level with a predicted 3.5 million cyber jobs to be unfilled by 2021 . Companies are questioning where future cyber security ...
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Posted on Monday, July 29, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The modern function of Internal Audit centres around a proactive awareness of risks. With risk being a constantly evolving threat to organisations, mitigating against them whilst planning for their potential consequences are all part of an effective risk-based strategy. With organisations shifting towards digital and regulatory changes posing an ongoing headache for auditors, these four trends ...
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Posted on Monday, July 29, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 29 Jul 2019 The evolving, and frankly overwhelming pace of the cybersecurity industry makes remaining on the pulse a challenge. The demand to know the latest trends and industry news is a burdening task for professionals across the world, so we have summed up the top five trends influencing the industry over the coming years. 1. Skills shortage & AI With a predicted 3.5 million ...
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Posted on Friday, July 26, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The world may be connected by tangible bridges, roads and pathways but since ‘smart’ became the adjective for everything from our cars and phones to essentially the way we manage our households (cough) Alexa; connectivity has redefined itself. The Internet of Things (IoT) applies to any system, app, device or platform connected to the web making for a more interlinked society than has ever ...
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Posted on Friday, July 26, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Since 2008, CareersinAudit.com has commissioned a yearly piece of bespoke research looking at different aspects of the Audit, Governance, Accountancy and Technology world. This year we revisited our previous research into your views on moral and ethical dilemmas in the workplace and intimate relationships at work. The results were telling, with more than a third of all accountancy professionals ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 24 Jul 2019 Very few of us relish the prospect of a job interview, even though it is often a crucial and exciting part of our career path. Yet, with the right mindset and preparation, an hour’s conversation (and that’s how we should all approach interviews) could make all the difference to you landing your next position. The Junior When you’re applying for an entry-level role – whether ...
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Posted on Friday, June 28, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 28 Jun 2019 The demand for cyber security jobs is not about to wane any time soon, but the specific roles within its discipline face their own fluctuation in the popularity stakes based on the greater business need. With the continued move toward automation and a greater emphasis on network security due to the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), candidate requirements are ...
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Posted on Friday, June 14, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 14 Jun 2019 To paraphrase a famous pop song, we are living in a technological world, as all things digital look set to take over the world as we know it. Systems driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in particular are causing a furore as the human element of roles across certain industries look set to be replaced by machines. So, with the advancing influence of automation, AI and ...
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Posted on Friday, June 14, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 14 Jun 2019 Filling roles in cyber security can be tough, particularly when dealing with HR or business personnel with minimal understanding of a role and thus the right candidate for the job. So how should you prepare as a recruiter in the cyber security space? It’s Who you Know Talk to professionals in the cyber security industry. Networking is key and the hope is that you would have ...
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Posted on Friday, May 3, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 03 May 2019 Technology is changing at a rapid pace and as it continues to evolve, the role of tech-savvy IT professional keeps adapting. As the IT industry welcomes this continuous change, awareness and knowledge of the current challenges facing the industry are a top priority, and if seeking to shine in the IT job market this awareness cannot be overlooked. The current threat ...
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Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 29 Apr 2019 Did you know that everything Internet-related generates data? A text message, a YouTube tutorial, checking LinkedIn, buying a saucepan off Amazon all generates data, and businesses use that data to gain valuable insights into everything from their customers to their productivity. But what is data without people who know what to do with it? Cue the Data Scientists. Typically ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Various economic, political and regulatory headwinds continue to buffet the internal audit recruitment market. Here, we examine the factors that had the biggest impact on hiring last year, as well as predict key trends for 2019. Economic and regulatory drivers Economic and regulatory drivers Is UK economy recovering from shaky 2017? Uncertainty was perhaps the main theme running through our last ...
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Posted on Monday, April 8, 2019 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 4: Audit and Assurance Big 4 apprenticeship Name: Dalian Paul Age: early 20s Employer: EY, 2nd year ACA trainee, level 7 audit apprenticeship From Cornwall to Liverpool, Living the Dream – Audit Style When Dalian Paul qualifies as an ACA, in around 3½ years’ time, not only will he have dodged the dreaded student debt, he will have been earning for 5 years, visited around 50 different ...
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Posted on Monday, April 8, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
How often do you leave a job interview and wonder if you did enough to get the job? Candidates are left in the dark more than not as to what let them down, so we decided to shed some light on the ‘why’ factor when it comes to what interviewers are looking for. Accountants and auditors, we know, are numbers people. Speaking in facts and figures and technical terms that sound like a foreign ...
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Posted on Friday, April 5, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The conversation around AI and the impact machine learning and its robotic ilk is likely to have on our future careers is one that sparks uncertainty in most. The idea that a fundamental role like accounting could become computer generated is daunting, but the reality is this; while it’s true that automation is an undeniable factor in professional and industrial evolution, so too is the ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2019 by KPMG in Bermuda for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
If you’re considering relocating your career to a destination that combines sunshine, beautiful beaches and an abundance of career opportunities, then KPMG in Bermuda should be at the top of your shortlist. Brian Archibald made the leap from Scotland to Bermuda over four years ago and for him, the island lifestyle and KPMG in Bermuda community has created that elusive work-life balance that most ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The importance of auditing corporate culture is growing, in large part thanks to the recent Royal Commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry in Australia and subsequent report from Commissioner Kenneth Hayne . Royal Commissions are defined as major ad-hoc formal public inquiries into specific issues, with previous examples of such proceedings ...
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Posted on Monday, March 25, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Mar 2019 Podcasts have steadily become one of the most popular formats to consume information. No matter the topic, format or time frame, you can always find an abundance of podcasts that fit your criteria. The bite-sized chunks of information are a great resource for the expert and the amateur alike and the cyber security sector is not exempt. Whether it is years of experience, ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You know you deserve it, they should know you’ve earned it, now how do you make it happen? Whether you want to move up the ladder or have your efforts reflected in your pay slip, these are some pointers that could help make that happen. Record your Highs In the moment you may laugh at the idea of forgetting that glowing feedback you just received from a client, or how well you executed that ...
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Posted on Monday, February 18, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You’ve done the prep, you’ve ironed the shirt, you’ve memorised your CV. It’s interview time. Sitting across from the person who holds the fate of your career in their hands can cause your mind to run away from you when those all important questions are being fired out. So, here are some things to bear in mind to help you secure your next role in accounting or audit. The first thing to know is ...
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Posted on Friday, February 15, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As corporate misconduct continues, from the bad old days of Enron, to the more current examples of Volkswagen, Nissan and NAB foreshadowing the dark side of business in the event of compliance failures; there is an overwhelming need for corporate culture to be added to the internal audit workload. So say IIA Global , whose 2016 white paper asserted that ‘auditing culture helps the organisation ...
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Posted on Friday, February 1, 2019 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It’s two months to the 29 March Brexit deadline and finance professionals must likely be getting twitchy with wondering what the effect will be on their careers. Certainly relocations to Continental Europe have been and are occurring as financial services firms look to Frankfurt, Paris, Dublin and Luxembourg to mitigate the impact on their clients as Brexit takes hold. However, at this stage, ...
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 28 Jan 2019 We all know the demand for cyber security professionals is high and will only continue to grow in the coming years while the availability of aptly skilled individuals remains limited. Now really is the time to consider whether a career in cyber security is right for you . With lucrative salaries on the horizon and new technologies continuing to direct the flow of industry, ...
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 21 Jan 2019 A penetration or pen tester is the person hired to assess the strength of a system’s security. Utilised in security audits, integral to conducting risk assessments and divided between white box and black box software testing; penetration testing is designed to root out all vulnerabilities in a business’s applications, systems and networks. With a typical salary of around ...
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 21 Jan 2019 The very peak of cyber security careers, the commander in chief leading security teams into virtual battle, the advocate for new IT initiatives company-wide; it’s safe to say that the role of Chief Information Security Officer or CISO is a powerful one. As you may have guessed, a position with such power also requires substantial prior experience; so IT or security ...
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 21 Jan 2019 Completing practical skills assessments and other challenges is only half the hurdle to jump over in a Penetration Tester interview , as then come the questions. In terms of the types of questions you may be asked, expect them to get fairly technical and specific about the various elements involved in penetration testing. They may start with the obvious ones, such as what ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 16 Jan 2019 Within a space that is as diverse as it is broad, the role of cyber security consultant is positioned as a jack of all trades of sorts. An all-round security guru. Expected to perform a variety of roles within the field, working in cyber security as a consultant will see you straddle both sides of the equation, understanding both attacker and defender. Thus you will need an ...
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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 Dec 2018 Also known as Systems Security administrator, Network Security administrator and IT Security administrator, Cyber Security administrator jobs are a useful entry point into a career in cyber security . The first line of defence in securing databases, which is the universal power behind basically every website, application and system known to man; a data security ...
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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2018 by Simon Wright for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Micromanager? Dictator? Bully? Favouritist? Incompetent? Bad bosses come in many forms and if you don’t address the issue, working for them could have a severe impact on both your job performance and mental wellbeing. Whether it’s a boss with anger management issues who flies off the handle over bad grammar or a lazy boss who expects you to pick up all the slack; Simon Wright, Managing Director ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Dec 2018 What is a cryptographer? An algorithm-whisperer, a code breaker and simultaneously maker whose sole purpose in life is to secure networks and protect important data. Of course there’s a great deal more to it, but if this already sounds like you, read on. The first thing to know if you want to work in cryptography is that it is one of the hardest areas of cyber security to ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Dec 2018 Computer or digital forensics was borne of the rise in technology. With the advent of computers, the Internet and mobile devices, there has been a significant shift in the practice of law enforcement. Technology has changed both the way in which police work and the nature of the types of crimes they’re investigating, which themselves are constantly evolving. Constant ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Your online reputation – could it be helping or hindering your next career move? Simon Wright, Managing Director, CareersinAudit.com gives the accountancy profession some pointers The way we interact and communicate has fundamentally changed over the past 15 years. The likes of Google and many social media apps are here to stay and whilst some channels may not last, the monopoly of some such as ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 29 Nov 2018 Computer crime, also referred to as cyber-crime most commonly, e-crime, electronic crime and hi-tech crime is the branch of cyber security you should consider if your aspirations lie in criminal justice or cyber forensics. Cyber security jobs outrank nearly all other career paths, making it into LinkedIn’s top 5 emerging jobs taken from their recent survey of over 500 ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 29 Nov 2018 Programming, or coding, is a lucrative option for cyber security professionals who are interested in working with computer function and programming language. There are seven different paths to programming jobs , so consider carefully where your skills and experience would best fit. Computer Programmer is perhaps the most common programming role on the job market. Entailing ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2018 by Barclay Simpson — No comments
The European governance recruitment market is complex and multifaceted. But despite each nation’s unique economic, cultural and political influences, our first European Market Report found many shared challenges and opportunities across the continent. Here is a snapshot of our findings: Employers remain in Brexit limbo Brexit has dominated media headlines, and the UK’s impending split from the EU ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Last month, a new batch of 26 students began the Asset and Liability Management Association's (ALMA) CertBALM® course. They are part of a growing cohort of bank treasury professionals keen to broaden their skills and earn an accredited qualification. ALMA currently runs the course twice a year after completing a successful pilot in September 2016. Over the past two years, CertBALM® has already ...
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Posted on Monday, November 5, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
“Should I stay where I am or should I go to a different location?” used to be a fairly simple question for many audit and accountancy professionals looking for a better work life balance , to find a new challenge or in some instances, gain a step up in their career. Yet with the uncertain global political and economic landscape, Simon Wright, Managing Director of global job board ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 3: Quality Assurance professional, in industry Name: Jane McGee Age : 40s Employer: Several organisations serving national and global markets Audit is essentially a career in service. Often it directly provides a public service; sometimes it serves a more immediate group of stakeholders, but ultimately, in some shape or form, it delivers a whole suite of benefits and assurance to the ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 2: The Audit Senior (at a local firm moving to a Big Four firm) Name: Claire Harbourne Age: 20s Employer : Small firm, general practice, started as graduate trainee, making first career move to big four. Claire was just coming up to the end of her ACA training contract when we first met. I wanted to find out how she had made her initial career decision on graduating and how she had found ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Simon Wright for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many will remember the headlines in October 2001 – when the Enron scandal broke in the news. What followed was not only the bankruptcy of the company, a hefty prison sentence for CEO Jeffrey Skilling and other employees, but also the de-facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen – one of the Big Five. Cited as the biggest audit failure in history, the accountancy profession, which had always played a ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 1: The Big Four Audit Director Name: AG Age: 30s Employer: Single organisation, from graduate trainee, twenty years and counting… AG is your complete audit specialist. External audit is what she does, has always done and even after twenty years of honing her expertise, audit, remains, to this day, her professional passion. As a big four audit director, her technical abilities in audit and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is there really any other profession as diverse as assurance and compliance audit? Even after working in, and with, the audit profession for over thirty years, I am still astonished at the sheer range of careers, roles, individuals and skills that our profession attracts. As president of my district society of chartered accountants, I currently have an unprecedented, privileged and highly ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
The first thing to know when preparing to work in compliance in the UK is that it’s not necessary to have a particular qualification. Furthermore, as we’ve said before, though people assume compliance is synonymous with having a law degree that is not in fact a necessity. Due to its increasingly quantitative nature on account of developments in machine learning and data analytics; compliance ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
It’s been a decade since the credit crunch hit and its domino effect has seen boards recognise the need for better reactiveness, regulators become tougher and the financial services industry place greater importance on risk management . So for UK candidates wishing to pursue a career in risk, knowing which qualifications could bolster your BSc or BA and practical experience is a helpful step in ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
Compliance has always been a staple of the business landscape; part of the furniture in its typically middle-back office function. However, with the regulatory climate changing in the aftermath of the economic crisis and further to accommodate advancing technology, compliance has become something of a household name on the financial stage. New and updated rules and guidelines rolled out across ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Sep 2018 Cyber security jobs , as we know, are in vast supply while the aptly skilled candidates required to fill them, are not. In light of this talent shortage, those at the helm of business and education have made it their priority to create opportunities for more people to re-train into the cyber security arena. Case in point, the UK government is investing a £1.9bn spend on ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Most risk professionals come from a solid numerical background. Embarking on a career in risk means you will have likely completed a degree in Maths, finance or economics. A degree in business administration or statistics will also stand you in good stead. However, that is not to say that candidates coming from other degree fields as diverse as Geography, Anthropology or even History of Art won’t ...
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Posted on Monday, September 10, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Self confidence, self belief, self regard, self assurance, self worth and self efficacy. We’ve discussed all of these previously on these pages. But how are they different from self esteem and why does self esteem merit its own article? Let’s find out… The Dictionary Definitions, self esteem: ‘Confidence in one’s own worth or abilities; self respect’ . ‘ Belief and confidence in your own ability ...
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Posted on Friday, September 7, 2018 by EY for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
How EY helped Panos and Maria build their audit careers in the UK Panos Merziotis, who was working in Cyprus and Greece, and Maria Lantero, who’s originally from Spain, both relocated from mainland Europe to take up positions in Audit at EY UK. Neither have looked back since. So what are their perspectives on settling in a new country with a new firm, and how have their careers developed since? ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Audits are projects. From the most junior trainee up to director or partner level, we all manage projects or aspects of projects in some shape or form. At one end of the spectrum, many of us have never formally been taught any project management skills , we just figure it out as we go along. A few of us may have the coveted Prince2 (or one of the other gold standard project management ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2018 by KPMG for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature) — No comments
The corporate world can sometimes feel like you are expected to be just like everybody else, however you are an individual and everyone circumstances are different. More and more firms are offering return to work programmes for experienced professionals who either took a career break to raise their children or travelled the world and are now looking for opportunities to combine a rewarding career ...
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Posted on Monday, August 20, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Meetings…the bread and butter of our business; the glue that holds together our organisations; grist to the mill for each and every one of us! Enough of the metaphors; we all have them, mostly we groan at the thought of them, but why do meetings cause such anguish, frustration and plain old exasperation? “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” ― Thomas Sewell , Ever ...
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Posted on Monday, August 20, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The current business landscape exists within a tougher regulatory climate which has, since the inception of the EU GDPR , further elevated the threshold for companies to suffer financial losses. As a result, many organisations are likely operating under loss versus the profit they’re imagining. This is where the importance of external audit proves its worth to an organisation. An external audit ...
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Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Moving between a bank’s or business’ lines of defence is a manageable feat and one you may want to accomplish during your career. Specifically it is very common for individuals to move from the third line of defence, internal audit, into the second line of defence, risk. But what should you be aware of in order to make the transition successfully? Daniel Ostermeyer, Director of Risk Advisory at ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You need to make an ‘impact’ with your CV, at a job interview or when you are doing a presentation, this, we all know. But have you thought about all the other instances where impact matters? When you meet a client (internal or external), a stakeholder in your organisation, even a potential suitor… First impressions really do count, but impact is more enduring and goes far beyond that initial ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 08 Aug 2018 The General Data Privacy Regulation or GDPR is quickly becoming a buzzword insofar as how often we’re talking about it, but it’s an important subject to discuss. The build up to and subsequent implementation of this EU Regulation has raised the issue of data protection and data privacy sufficiency, and ultimately what that means for people working in cyber security and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
' There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management’, Rory Vaden. Work overload , productivity, managing time and work life balance are perennial hot topics for auditors and accountants. We’ve covered all of these, in depth, many times on these pages. But the tough truism remains: with all the very best time management techniques in the world you can only ever be as good as ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 07 Aug 2018 The UK Cyber Security industry has seen a 45% growth since 2010, with the market share estimated at £3,489 million last year . The growing demand for these roles is a direct result of increasing cyber attacks across the world. But the concern is that due to a lack of talent, there are not enough skilled individuals available to fill the increasing demand for jobs. ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
It’s 2018. Risk management in 2018 is knowing that technology, automation and regulation are synonymous with your job in risk. Understanding how these affect an organisation’s risk profile is key in as far as staying one step ahead of the evolving business landscape. Daniel Ostermeyer, Director of Risk Advisory at Deloitte, suggests that young risk professionals should be thinking of how best to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Readers of these pages will be highly familiar with my prolific writings on communication skills for auditors. A whole third of the Audit Advantage Series is dedicated to the art and science of communication. The Auditor’s Communication Strategy takes you through the process, breaking down the mechanics of communication into bite-sized learnings. I’ve proclaimed Auditor. Ace communicator. Super ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 Jul 2018 The General Data Protection Regulation aka GDPR has been activated and with it, questions from those working in cyber security . Not least, how the directive will impact their role within an organisation. With so many different domains within GDPR, how does it relate to cyber security and what should cyber security professionals be aware of? Cyber defence advisor, Cameron ...
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Work overload: are you really that busy? Over the many years I have been coaching and mentoring, the standalone, hot, personal development topic of all time, has been, and still remains, the profound angst of the impossible workload. That of course, is unsurprising, as we precariously subsist in an orbit of 24/7 connectivity, countless communication channels mushrooming by the day, a widening ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 5, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Jul 2018 The first point to remember when stepping into an interview for a cyber security role is to be authentic. Any good interviewer will know when someone is pandering to them rather than offering a genuine representation of their potential. The second point is to really think about what you’re being asked. Don’t try and give the interviewer what you think they want; think about ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When it comes to this part of your compliance job interview , your interviewer is looking beyond the preparation you put into answering their questions . Now it’s your turn to essentially put them in the hot seat and demonstrate your insight and enthusiasm for the role and the business of compliance. Director of Consulting Practice at KPP Search, Lee Hine, regards the importance of emotional ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you are looking at moving to an entirely new career, planning on changing sectors or curious to hear what else is out there for your skill set, then take a look through this Audit Agony Aunt page on 'Moving Careers'. I currently work as a scientist, I'm interested in a change of career and I'm considering internal audit but as a complete outsider I'm struggling to understand what my ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Moving your audit career abroad can be an exciting time for many, especially as you find yourself taking on a new role, exploring a new country and making new friends. It is also a time laden with many questions. Here the Audit Agony Aunt answers your queries about moving abroad for your audit career: I have just qualified (ACCA) and been working in industry for the past 6 years in London. I got ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Dealing with difficult people is a skill within itself and something which many auditors will find themselves facing from time to time, but having to cope with a difficult boss can be a step too far for many. Here the Audit Agony Aunt answers you questions on how to cope with difficult bosses, line managers and senior staff. "I feel like my new line manager is undermining me. She started off ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you are considering taking your first step into a career in audit or are already graduated, you are bound to have some questions on what to do next. Here you will find questions and answers from our Audit Agony Aunt series, all focused on 'Starting a career in Auditing'. I am currently awaiting an expected termination interview with a Big four company having failed to pass an accountancy ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you an audit, risk or compliance professional with a question about wellbeing and mental health in the work place? Take a look through our questions and answers from the Audit Agony Aunt series: "Just to explain the situation I have to face just now: there is a Director in my Company, he is my peer as we are leading two different service lines, but he is some years older and he started in ...
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Posted on Friday, June 15, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
If you want to work in compliance then we’ve got the strategy to help you nail the interview. Though the road to compliance jobs may be paved with much demand from employers, desperate to avoid the penalties of existing within a highly regulated business landscape; don’t be complacent. That is the first thing to be aware of when preparing for your compliance job interview. The second is, simply, ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Technical acumen and academic qualifications may get you through the door, but once you’re sitting across from your interviewer the real work begins. For candidates wanting to work in risk , your interviewer is looking beyond the hard skills to whether you fit with the company culture and thus whether your soft skills, too, are up to par. Your interview marks an opportunity to create a connection ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Are you really prepared for your risk management interview ? You may have done the research, brushed your teeth and have stellar responses ready to fire back at the interviewer’s questions; but, what about when it’s your turn to do the asking? Asking the right questions could be just the ticket to propel you into a career in risk , so think wisely. Go in hard; ask whether the company conducts a ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 05 Jun 2018 Where do you get your cyber security news? Not only something you may be quizzed on during your cyber security job interview , but a prerequisite for any aspiring candidate working their way into a career in cyber security. If you’re not sure who to follow on Twitter or you’re looking to add some to your list, look no further. We’ve compiled our top 12 Twitter thought ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
The countdown to the EU GDPR directive has now ceased with the 25 May 2018 deadline a fixture in current reality. Now more than ever companies are crying out for compliance officers . From the public to the private domain, organisations need help navigating the maze of laws and regulations, not least the new data protection initiative. Demand may be high, but candidates looking for jobs in ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 30 May 2018 Cyber security is the hot career ticket of the current job marketplace. However, its relatively recent rise to fame may means many of the contenders hoping to practice it for money are coming from other professional fields. While it’s true that there are those who move into cyber security from as obscure vocations as floristry, the reality is most come from a background in ...
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Posted on Friday, May 18, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 18 May 2018 IT Audit and cyber security jobs are close bedfellows in many ways. However, while cyber security exists as a subset of IT Audit, a distinction must be made about their respective goals. While cyber security is a component of the IT Audit profession , falling under that extensive audit umbrella, it does in its practice fall outside the audit sphere in its efforts to ...
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2018 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Self Confidence: ‘the first requisite to great undertakings’ (Samuel Johnson) We all know what we mean when we talk about self-confidence…don’t we? If in doubt, check out our Resilient Auditor series for definitions, terminology and deeper understanding of what is, and what isn’t, true self-confidence. The bigger issues though, are really the real life, practical ones; the issues around where it ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
If you’re starting out in a career in compliance , there are some key things to know if you’re planning on being successful. We share our tips and advice which every discerning 20-something compliance professional needs in their back pocket. The first, and perhaps most important point, is practical experience. It is recommended to get to know the business in a wider sense before throwing yourself ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
There is a very faint line distinguishing regulatory roles from jobs in compliance as fundamentally they share a common goal. That goal is ensuring an organisation adheres to the relevant legal guidelines, policies, processes and specifications expected of its business. For candidates delving into careers in regulation or regulatory affairs, as it is so described, the focus is on developing the ...
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Posted on Friday, April 27, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Apr 2018 Cyber security is an area that is simultaneously lusted after (professionally speaking) and crying out for talent. The opportunities are there but acquiring a job in cyber security takes more than just desire. As a freshly graduated 20-something you may already be on the right path to a career in cyber security or you may be looking for a way in. We share our tips to help ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Without an effective risk management plan, a business cannot define its future objectives. Arguably one of the most important aspects of an organisation, risk management done right is what protects an organisation against losses and equally enables it to capitalise on opportunities. By having a proper plan in place, risk management is the thing that maximises a company’s valuable resources like ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 12 Apr 2018 The first thing to remember in an interview for a job in cyber security is to keep your answers relevant, simple and concise. The realm of information security is as broad as it’s wide, ranging from entry level techs to top level security clearance positions. As a result the types of questions you can expect at interview of course evolve with seniority. Starting at the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Tentative progress being made on Brexit Our last report was published in the summer of 2017, shortly after the result of the general election was announced. We had hoped that by the time our 2018 report was published, the picture surrounding Brexit , its consequences for the UK economy and recruitment landscape would be better known. Recent developments suggest tentative progress is being made. ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
I last wrote about Email Etiquette on these pages nearly eight years ago. While those words of counsel still hold true today, the big difference is the explosion of diverse messaging tools and channels that we have at our disposal right now. Let’s start by assuming that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and their ever proliferating progeny are best suited to social rather than professional ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
What does it take to be successful working in risk management? Qualifications notwithstanding, there are certain types of people who possess certain types of qualities to make them prime picking for jobs in risk . The question is, do those qualities apply to you? In this article we run through the top 5 traits that employers and hiring managers are looking for when recruiting for risk ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2018 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
Straight off the bat, what makes a successful compliance professional is one who aims right for the top of the figurative tree, Chief Compliance Officer. With that goal in mind, one can fine tune his or her compliance instincts and qualities to reach the fullest of their potential. Candidates applying for compliance jobs should possess the following key traits if success is their end-game. Be ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
With numerous branches of risk operational within the business world , from market risk and credit to enterprise risk management, financial risk and geographic risk to name a few, it won’t surprise you to learn there isn’t a generic interview hit list of questions when job hunting for risk management opportunities. However, that’s not to say there aren’t types of questions you can prepare for and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 27 Mar 2018 There are many qualities employers look for when making their cyber security hires. Many will tell you that the ideal cyber security candidate in possession of equal parts technical prowess, business acumen and communication skills is a unicorn. So, as a candidate looking for cyber security jobs in 2018, what traits should you be highlighting on your CV to make your cyber ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Understanding what the impending European data privacy regulation is all about is half the battle in preparing your company for its implications ahead of 25 May 2018. The EU GDPR has manifested in response to a society that lives and breeds data; sharing, collecting, storing and using it for everything from online banking to social media, personal contacts and the very unique thumbprint of your ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With a younger, more tech-savvy generation playing a larger role in business today, the health of an organisation’s cyber security products, protocols and processes has become even more important in 2018. Storing private data on their computers and devices more than their older, more paper-oriented peers, the under-34 demographic filling cyber security jobs are casting a far wider attack net ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance is to an organisation what oil is to a car; it keeps the entity running smoothly and performing to the peak of its potential. As the global business climate grows more stringent with standards and regulations increasing their sway over how organisations manage their operations, the importance of compliance in an organisation has never been greater. Setting out a blueprint of ...
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Posted on Monday, February 12, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The IIA definition positions internal auditing as an “independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes.” According to Rainer Lenz, ...
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Posted on Friday, February 2, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In a time where its function has never been more critical to both business strategy and reputational prowess, internally marketing the value-add of internal audit to the rest of the business is something every organisation should consider doing. At a fundamental level, those working in internal audit operate at a transactional level to prevent fraud, manage emerging risks and create smooth and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Forensic accounting and investigations may seem like the obvious career move for someone working in internal audit , and while there are lines where the two interconnect there are important differences to be aware of. While audit is focused on the assurance element of financial statements, roles in forensic accounting require a far more analytical approach in order to examine a specific set of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2018 is underway and with a new year comes new expectations for how the financial services sector will operate, particularly in light of impending regulatory changes such as the GDPR due in May. Understanding where the internal audit function fits into those expectations is vital to those working within the area or looking to apply their skillset to an auditor role . Undoubtedly there exists a ...
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Posted on Monday, November 27, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Expectations for those working in internal audit are changing as the need for swifter detection of anomalies, red flags for fraud and other indicators of problems with internal controls has exposed a new generation of internal auditors. One bestowed with the wisdom of data analytics . Those professionals with data analytics experience have as a result found themselves rising through the ranks ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
If you are a graduate looking to get into risk or a professional hoping to make a career change or make a side step, you will want to know what types of risk jobs you can expect to come across. Traditionally when you think of risk professionals, you either think of a risk manager or a risk analyst, who will advise companies and businesses to help them make important business decisions. However, ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There are some things companies looking to streamline their expenditure could probably cut back on; however one would argue that internal audit is not one of them. The internal audit function remains as relevant in today’s market as it ever has, in fact perhaps even more so in light of incoming regulations and directives such as the EU GDPR . The role of internal audit in facilitating proper ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
More often than not, anxiety is presented as a negative; we have treatment for anxiety ‘disorders’, in audit and other professions we talk about managing anxiety before a meeting or a presentation , we feel anxious awaiting an exam result. Without a doubt these are all examples of a feeling that can be uncomfortable, often debilitating and, at the extreme, be diagnosed as a mental health ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the scene It seems that stress – ‘a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances’ strikes everywhere and pretty much everyone at some time in their life. So prevalent is stress that medics across the globe have termed it the “epidemic” or the “disease” of the 21st century – with certain life circumstances such as a divorce, moving house, ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 03 Oct 2017 It’s almost a cliché to remind you of the impending step change due to occur on 25 May 2018 as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) prepares to take effect. However, for those with the relevant skill set, the GDPR could mean an interesting twist in your career path as you assign your talents and expertise to the newly created role of Data Protection Officer ...
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Posted on Friday, September 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 Sep 2017 As the skills deficit continues in the tech domain and the demand for information security and cybersecurity professionals only increases to match the threat of data breaches; companies like Apple, Google and tech and security agencies are employing more innovative and cryptic tactics to recruit new talent. A stunt which dates back to WWII, cryptic graffiti, job ads hidden ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 13 Sep 2017 As the UK continues to establish itself as a digital hub within Europe, with investment in its technology sector reportedly 50% higher than any other European country, according to findings from TechUK; security architects can expect to earn anywhere between £55,000-65,000 as an average starting salary. Of course this hinges on experience and the location of the specific ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 12 Sep 2017 Not to be confused with its closely related cybersecurity career peer, the penetration tester , a vulnerability analyst shares many of the same characteristics as its ethical hacking counterpart however whereas the pen tester’s goal-orientated services are called upon by clients who have already reached their desired security level, the vulnerability analyst’s services are ...
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Posted on Monday, September 11, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 11 Sep 2017 It is no secret that individuals skilled in the art of cybersecurity are in high demand, both within the public and private sectors, as the wave of data breaches and terror-related threats reaches pandemic level. Cyber or digital forensics is an intrinsic function which falls under the cyber umbrella, with those relevantly skilled professionals undertaking the examination ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Economy and wages under pressure Following a steady performance by the UK economy in 2016, growth rates at the beginning of 2017 have slowed. Whilst the post Brexit recession didn’t materialise, the vast majority of economists expect the decision to leave the EU will hit growth. Overall unemployment levels continue to fall. Productivity growth, however, remains elusive and exchange rate ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
I’ve written about it before; many, many, many times, in fact. Doubtless we all agree it’s a good thing, a great opportunity, exemplifying best practice, a veritable professional imperative. It’s an essential tool in our armoury of rendering our work physically doable, protecting the fragility of work life balance , safeguarding us from overwhelm and ensuring the investment in skills and ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
With compliance remaining a must-have function of the business, especially in the banking and finance sphere in light of tougher regulatory expectations, knowing where to look for the best compliance jobs is information every discerning candidate should have at their disposal. While compliance jobs are certainly in healthy supply globally, Asia is perhaps the top of the heap when it comes to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
What’s the first thing you need to know about getting a job in risk ? Starting with the basics , education is the first step to the career of your risk management or risk analysis dreams with the majority, if not all, employers expecting to see your CV furnished with a BA in a subject related to risk. Business, finance and management are all lucrative options, as well as maths, science and ...
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Posted on Friday, August 11, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
The risk function across both London and its European counterparts is facing a similar reality, driven largely by regulatory expectations and a tougher approach to risk management. As far as criteria expected of employers hiring for risk management jobs in London , and elsewhere, candidates able to demonstrate specialist knowledge and expertise across market and credit risk , in addition to the ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
Just as the 2008 financial crisis set a regulatory surge in motion, Brexit is gearing up to do the same with the EU GDPR one of the most notable directives accompanying Britain’s departure from the European bloc. Of course the increasing need for data protection in an age of digitalisation, cyber-attacks and automation is also a key factor in that particular regulation, but one that also calls ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
It has become a truth globally acknowledged that businesses in this strict regulatory age must be in want of a strong compliance team. Paraphrasing the works of Jane Austen aside, the demand for professionals with a compliance or regulatory background has not abated in 2017, with those candidates meeting the respective skills criteria able to command generous salaries for compliance jobs in the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 09 Aug 2017 One thing is for certain, when it comes to defining a day in the life of a security analyst , unpredictability is the only factor one can expect. The job of an analyst requires an all-round awareness that accounts for what has been, current situation and what could occur, thus the first order of business for a security analyst starting his or her day is a hand-over of ...
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Posted on Friday, August 4, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
Closely related, roles in compliance and risk share many of the same expectations when it comes to skills, experience and knowledge with analytical thinking, strong communication skills and the ability to influence key decision-makers mutual assets in any compliance or risk professional. For those applying for compliance jobs and roles in risk in the current business climate, an added insight ...
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Posted on Friday, August 4, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Working in risk has evolved greatly over the years, not least in response to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent tightening of regulations over banks’ use of public money to salvage their mistakes. Regulatory measures are a key factor to consider for candidates considering a role in risk as the risk function works closely with the compliance team to ensure an organisation is ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
Carol McLachlan, theaccountantscoach, is a qualified accountant, NLP Practitioner and professionally qualified coach. Her 18 year career at Ernst and Young as a chartered accountant and a Director of Resources has equipped her with a real understanding of the professional and personal issues that accountants face. Here Carol answers your career questions as our very own Compliance Careers ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Carol McLachlan, theaccountantscoach, is a qualified accountant, NLP Practitioner and professionally qualified coach. Her 18 year career at Ernst and Young as a chartered accountant and a Director of Resources has equipped her with a real understanding of the professional and personal issues that accountants face. Here Carol answers your career questions as our very own Risk Careers Advisor. If ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
Compliance managers are undoubtedly one of the more sought-after professions in this regulatory day and age, in addition to their analyst, consultant and officer peers. Typically coming from backgrounds in banking, law, Big Four consultancy roles and working with regulators, those seeking compliance jobs possess a head for business and a mind for strategic problem solving. Tasked with monitoring ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by CareersinCompliance — No comments
While it’s true, the shadow of Brexit is casting an air of uncertainty over jobs in the UK, compliance is perhaps one of the few areas in the financial services industry that remains strong with regards hiring. Britain’s departure from the European bloc is not the only matter affecting UK business, as the GDPR directive prepares to come into effect next May and with it the need for more stringent ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
Among the top 15 highest paying finance jobs in the US, according to a recent survey by LinkedIn, senior risk jobs in particular command salaries of around $160,000 to $187,000 with companies including PwC, Edelman and Johnson & Johnson being among those seeking talent. As regulators increase their demands and expectations of global business, the need for specialists in risk, compliance and legal ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by CareersinRisk.com — No comments
The most significant factor to consider in looking at risk jobs in Europe is the impact of Brexit on opportunities in the region. Perhaps at current glance not an ideal state of affairs for the British contingent of candidates planning their post-Brexit career move, but for those in the EU the situation is looking rather more positive. A number of major banks, including Bank of America, Barclays ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Jul 2017 With UK and European businesses gearing up for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to land in May 2018, the demand for those skilled in data protection is growing. Data Protection Officers (DPOs) are high on the priority list for hiring managers of private sector organisations handling the monitoring and regulation of data subjects on a large scale. Though ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Jul 2017 Jobs in network security have gathered pace in terms of demand since the WannaCry ransomware attack that targeted the UK’s NHS in May. Bringing that aspect of cybersecurity into the public consciousness, corporate networks are susceptible to breaches most typically via their endpoints, or in laymen’s terms, commonly portable devices such as laptops, smartphones and ...
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Posted on Friday, July 7, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As the months draw ever closer to the inception of the EU GDPR , a revolutionary piece of legislation that will alter the way global business handles data privacy and IT/Cyber security ; there may be a question as to how, if at all, Britain’s exit from Europe will impact the effects of the directive on UK business. While some may be viewing Brexit as a lesser of two evils in its potential ability ...
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Posted on Monday, July 3, 2017 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Audit Advantage: Impostor Syndrome – when finding the fraud is YOU! How do you describe your progress, your success, your achievements? Ever ascribe them to ‘just good luck’, ‘being in the right place at the right time’, ‘sheer hard grind and hanging on in there’? Ever feel others have an unwarranted high opinion of you, that you might be ‘found out’, that you don’t deserve your role or station ...
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Posted on Friday, June 23, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 23 Jun 2017 The realm of Information Security or InfoSec as it is more commonly known holds an array of possibilities for those wishing to work within its domain. Rooted in a desire both to understand how things work as well as for the necessary industry standards and the field itself, InfoSec requires candidates who can demonstrate their commitment via self-sought practical experience ...
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Posted on Friday, June 23, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 23 Jun 2017 Technology Audit has taken on a whole new meaning as the advent of robotics, automation and cognitive technology has revolutionised the auditing process. The changes brought about by artificial intelligence and its complex tools allows auditors to process larger amounts of data far more efficiently and precisely, in order to deliver detailed, high quality audits and give ...
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Posted on Friday, June 23, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 23 Jun 2017 The market for IT audit jobs in Asia Pacific is undoubtedly candidate-driven, not least because the competition for this professional skillset is so highly in demand across several sectors of business. As demands from regulators increase and the threat of cyber-attacks weaves itself firmly into everyday reality , case in point the recent global ransomware attack, those ...
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Posted on Friday, June 2, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 02 Jun 2017 A career in IT Audit requires candidates to be fluent in an organisation’s accounting and information systems as they assess whether the internal controls in place are robust enough to keep those systems running efficiently and fluidly. The role of the IT Auditor demands a continual evaluation of those unseen infrastructures operating behind the scenes, in addition to the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 May 2017 The hot topic in current news is undoubtedly cybersecurity-centric following the global ransomware attack bringing the need for tougher data security measures into the spotlight. The hope certainly is to “refocus IT attention on updating security infrastructure and procedures” according to a report by analysts at Wedbush with business expenditure on cyber protection set to ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 31 May 2017 Cybersecurity candidates are a must-have on the ‘to hire’ list for internal recruiters and HR departments in all manner of companies globally. There is an overwhelming skills gap and deficit of skilled workforce in this area which is threatening to magnify as time marches on. For men and women wishing to pursue a career in cybersecurity , there are key considerations to be ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 With the way data has exploded both within its own microcosm of technological advancements and on a global scale demanding organisations worldwide revolutionise the way they do business, it was inevitable that regulatory measures would mirror its evolution. The transfer of data, not only inter-departmentally but across international boundaries has become as commonplace as ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 Cybersecurity , a sector of the technology industry, is at first glance a complicated matrix of codes and technical jargon inhabited by spec-toting nerds carrying laptops and is only accessible via male prerogative and gender-biased nepotism. At least that is, in some cases, the general perception and one the industry’s “spin-doctors” need to overturn if they are to make ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 New York is home to some of the most exciting tech brands in the world, boasting the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, Sony, Microsoft and Amazon. Manhattan has defined itself as a hub for technology with its plethora of industries and start-ups. The city is rife with tech opportunity and growth for those aspiring for a career in cyber security . As one of the top five ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 There is no shortage of opinions on cybersecurity roaming the internet, as one of the fastest-growing industries only looks set to increase its hold over life as we know it. Slated to generate over $100 billion annually by 2020, opportunities for cybersecurity professionals demand a certain skillset that only the few have mastered. For those working in IT Audit , now is the ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 The home of Silicon Valley and an intrinsic destination for technology dreams to be turned into reality, the US has undoubtedly established itself a hub for international professionals seeking opportunity, not least in the tech industry and cybersecurity sector. However, with President Trump’s executive order of 18 April 2017 looking to threaten the access between foreign ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 With little over a year to go before the EU GDPR comes into effect, for those working in compliance and regulatory roles, the need to know how the new regulation will affect data protection and thus their jobs is crucial. It goes without saying that irrespective of the looming EU GDPR enforcement date, set for 25 May 2018, organisations should be practicing safe data ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 It goes without saying that there is currently a high demand for cybersecurity professionals in Europe as the digitisation of business grows at an ever faster pace and the gap in talent supply widens. Security strategist, data privacy consultant and cyber defence advisor, Cameron Brown ( @AnalyticalCyber ), who is currently based out of Frankfurt in Germany, identified the ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 Not enough people understand the value of practicing good cybersecurity strategies to protect their personal data, and surprisingly the same is still true of many businesses. Perhaps not too surprising when we consider the big name breaches making world news, most devastatingly the $1 billion Yahoo accounts breached just last year. The gap for cybersecurity professionals is ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 A job interview is just as much a chance for the interviewer to delve deeper into your personality as it is for you to demonstrate what makes you the ideal candidate for the role in question. When it comes to cybersecurity , who you are and how you handle certain scenarios is equally as important as what you know and your level of experience and expertise within your field. ...
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 15 May 2017 The fall-out from Brexit truthfully still remains to be seen, an outcome that could take years before the proverbial mask is lifted, however UK businesses are putting measures in place in the aftermath of Article 50 being triggered. For the UK tech sector, and cybersecurity in particular, Brexit poses merely another issue to the overwhelming skills gap afflicting the ...
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Posted on Friday, May 12, 2017 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 12 May 2017 Accounting and cybersecurity share many similarities, for one they both require their proponents to be detail oriented and fluent with numbers. Forensic accountants, in particular, have many of the skills needed to deftly cross over into the cyber sector bringing their proficiency for getting into the detail of the numbers, and following the paper trail to ultimately build ...
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Posted on Friday, April 28, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
New York, home to some of the most exciting tech brands in the world. With the offices of Facebook, Google, Apple, Sony, Microsoft and Amazon residing on the island of Manhattan, New York has defined itself as a hub for technology. Boasting access to a plethora of industries and start-ups, the city is rife with tech opportunity and growth for those aspiring for a career in cyber security . Among ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2017 by David Haylor — No comments
Multifaceted and varied, the role of an internal auditor brings with it a range of tasks and challenges on a daily basis. An internal auditor is responsible for providing assurance to a business or organisation that risks are being managed effectively, internal processes are working and the business is being governed properly. The internal audit sector can seem particularly complex and highly ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In a field that is already in sore need of bums in seats when it comes to filling the thousands of roles available, making a place for women in cybersecurity must become a priority not only for the sake of diversity but for the sake of the industry itself. Paraphrasing CompTIA’s director of corporate communications, Steven Ostrowski, the tech industry doesn’t want to continue its traditional ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to Barclay Simpson’s 2017 Security Market Report - Barclay Simpson has been producing corporate governance market reports since 1990. They produce two reports each year. This one, summarizing and analysing recruitment trends in the risk recruitment market, is supplemented by an employer survey. Living with Brexit Our report in July focused on remuneration and was released immediately ...
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Posted on Monday, March 6, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to Barclay Simpson’s 2017 Compliance Recruitment Market Report - Barclay Simpson has been producing corporate governance market reports since 1990. They produce two reports each year. This one, summarizing and analysing recruitment trends in the compliance recruitment market, is supplemented by an employer survey. Brexit, so far so good? Our market report in July was released immediately ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to Barclay Simpson’s 2017 Risk Management Market Report - Barclay Simpson has been producing corporate governance market reports since 1990. They produce two reports each year. This one, summarizing and analysing recruitment trends in the risk recruitment market, is supplemented by an employer survey. Brexit, so far so good? Our market report in July was released immediately after the ...
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Posted on Friday, February 24, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Welcome to Barclay Simpson’s 2017 Internal Audit Market Report - Barclay Simpson has been producing corporate governance market reports since 1990. They produce two reports each year. This one, summarizing and analysing recruitment trends in the internal audit recruitment market, is supplemented by an employer survey. Living with Brexit Our market reports in July focused on remuneration and were ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Awareness of cyber security and its prevalence across the business world is an all but constant factor in our news cycles, detailing the dangers and consequences of cyber-attacks, particularly in the wake of numerous high profile cases including Canadian dating site Ashley Madison, UK telecom company TalkTalk and even the FBI. Without an effective cyber defence force working across global ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
One can’t go past the topic of internal audit in the US in 2017 without first considering the repercussions of President Trump’s thoughts on the matter. Signing an executive order to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act earlier this month has been just the first step in the new US president’s pledge to scale back regulations restricting the freedom of the country’s banks and businesses. The issue with ...
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Posted on Friday, February 3, 2017 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
So, we are currently looking at a world stage led, to all intents and purposes, by a figurehead who is more than a little questionable in his views and policies regarding the socioeconomic and political climate in the US. Well, what does that mean for cybersecurity? The rise and rise of cybersecurity is a true enough perspective on the increasing demand and growth of this area of information ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2017 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What does resilience mean to an auditor? So much, that not too long ago we compiled for you, a complete 10 part series, The Resilient Auditor ! We, at CareersinAudit.com, were of course ahead of the curve; if there was ever a time to call on this precious commodity, here we are, right now at the start of 2017, on the cusp of a strange new world as we usher in a whole new era of unpredictables, of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Life Coach Directory for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Work is an important, and large, part of our lives; as Auditors, we spend a staggering 99,000+ hours at work in our lifetimes. Because of this, it’s important that you feel you achieve emotional well-being and work satisfaction in your audit role. Part of this feeling will come from your perception of how well balanced your life is - the time split between work and home. If you’re feeling like ...
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Posted on Monday, December 12, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
CareersinAudit.com is the leading job board and career website for Internal Audit, External Audit, IT Audit, Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security, Corporate Governance, GRC, Advisory and Assurance professionals. Register your CV with CareersinAudit.com and let top employers and specialist recruiters find you. You can upload your CV here . You will be able to apply for audit jobs on the go by logging ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Living with Brexit uncertainty We wrote at the start of the year that the security recruitment market does not operate in a vacuum. It remains substantially dependent both on the economic environment within which it operates and also the perceived threats and losses that can result from a lack of investment in security. Like many others in the recruitment industry we were anticipating that any ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Living with Brexit uncertainty Our employers survey published at the start of 2016 suggested a buoyant recruitment market for compliance professionals . 79% of compliance departments had reported they were finding it difficult to recruit, with only 12% considering it was unlikely that they would need to recruit externally during the course of the year. However, according to our own metrics the ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Living with Brexit uncertainty At the start of 2016 we reported that the risk recruitment market had slowed. Even though our client survey reported that 55% of risk departments did not have the resources to meet the demands made upon them, only 52% reported they had attempted to recruit in the last six months. Furthermore, 23% reported that they were unlikely to recruit in 2016, significantly up ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Living with Brexit uncertainty We wrote at the start of the year about the value of stability and the way it lifts demand for internal auditors. Like many others in the recruitment industry, we were anticipating that any demand suppressed by the uncertainty of Brexit would result in an uptick in demand as the vote was settled in favour of the status quo. Clearly this did not come to pass and the ...
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Posted on Monday, November 21, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
One of the top ten occupations revealed to be the most satisfying, the Quality Assurance job market is a competitive one, so for candidates looking for roles in this sector, the key is to stand out from the crowd. A space that is driven by individuals with keen attention to detail and process as well as analytical thinking, those qualities must be apparent from the outset, from the structure of ...
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Posted on Friday, November 11, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you fancy yourself a Columbo or Poirot type character when it comes to your chosen career, then corporate investigations may be just the ticket. Closely related to the field of IT Forensics , Corporate Investigations is similarly routed in the fundamentals of detective work. Of course, it is far more complex than that simple analogy and when you look at the specialist areas that fall under ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A diverse strain of the InfoSec industry , those wishing to pursue a career in IT Forensics should be aware that it is a closely-knit and difficult business to break into, not least because it demands a level of practical experience from those wishing to work in it, more so than academic qualifications. “Government or law enforcement offer the best grounding and breadth of case exposure for ...
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Posted on Monday, October 31, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
‘Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who go out and get them’, Anon. Motivation: what is it? ‘Motivation’, we use the term glibly, loosely, habitually. We speak of motivating our teams to perform, to hit ever-tortuous deadlines within ever-tougher budgets. And we talk of motivating ourselves to persevere with a diet, stick to the training schedule for a half marathon ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Simon Wright, CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the scene By their own admission, auditors and accountants are a conservative breed. Perhaps it’s a combination of having an accuracy mindset and a dislike of ambiguity and risk. Yet, whilst those in the profession can find certainty auditing the numbers, there may be less guarantees and more unexpected challenges as they progress along their career path. It is often said that the way a ...
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Posted on Monday, October 3, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Long gone are the days of storing an entire life’s worth of work on one single machine; now any one person may have an entire network of devices linking their data, evolving the way digital forensics experts must approach their investigations. “The Cloud is a major driver due to the way data is shared and synchronised across devices, particularly for investigations. While you may not be able to ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Evolving to fit the times, not more so than to address the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis; regulation has changed significantly over the last 15 years. The most prevalent change has to do with the relationship between the business world and risk. Businesses have been forced to take greater notice of and invest in the right expertise to understand and more easily measure risk and risk ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The ambiguity of a post-Brexit world has left UK and EU professionals alike contemplating the future of their careers. Whether cross-border opportunities will be affected remains to be seen and with political discussions surrounding the fate of the referendum result likely being postponed to late 2019, hiring sentiment is recovering from its “Brexitis”. According to an Audit Risk professional, ...
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Posted on Friday, September 9, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Technology is a hugely important aspect of business in this day and age, with companies investing big money to acquire the latest data, software and hardware in order to keep up with the demands of a global clientele. The responsibility of a technology auditor is to evaluate the technological capacity of an organisation, its procedures and its needs, in order to ensure the business can outwit ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 1, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As new EU audit reforms come into effect and new regulatory and compliance guidelines continue to place additional demand on the workload and responsibilities of UK businesses, the remit for the audit function widens considerably. With the financial services sector claiming the lions share when it comes to corporate audit opportunities in the UK , audit professionals should expect their role to ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The best teams are synergistic; that is their whole is greater than the sum of their parts. Building, developing and sustaining effective teams means acknowledging much more than a group of individuals but recognising the team as a separate entity. Read our article, Building Effective Audit Teams in conjunction with the Audit Advantage series for advice, resources and information on managing ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Closely related to the realm of InfoSec ( Information Security ), Cyber Security requires much of the same know-how, skills and experience. For those individuals wishing to pursue a career in this space, one that is increasingly popular as the global need for organisations’ to focus on the security of their data rises in response to the onslaught of internal and external threats; it ultimately ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As whispers travel down the grapevine about the status of Brexit, it would appear that while the initial aftermath sent British businesses into a brief turmoil, the reality as it stands is far less dramatic. According to the latest reports, Brexit could be delayed until as late as 2019 with Prime Minister Theresa May, a member of the “remain” camp, in no hurry to invoke Article 50. It is true ...
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Posted on Friday, August 12, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Information security is undoubtedly a hot area for the IT savvy among us, and as a dynamic discipline it presents a wealth of options for InfoSec careerists. With a number of routes in, from audit and compliance to forensic analyst, the three most common launch pads to a career in information security come from systems administration, networking and development. Systems administration tends to be ...
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Posted on Friday, August 5, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When you opt for a particular career, it can often feel as though you must become dogmatic with regards your own potential, without acknowledging the opportunities any one role offers. It’s true that in light of technical expertise and qualifications, many career paths appear rigid but the reality can yield quite a more varied professional journey. Thus it’s worth exploring your role of choice to ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The demand for contract internal audit jobs is often dependent on a number of factors, one of which can be associated with a straightforward internal policy on staffing whereby a company will have a dedicated perm headcount that they can’t exceed and so need to bring on contractors on a project by project basis. Project-based work calls for more specialised individuals to be brought in for short ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2016 by Simon Wright, CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We spoke with the Head of Internal Audit at the ACCA to ask his thoughts on the post-Brexit fallout and how this may affect those in the profession not just in the UK and Europe but across the world. Brexit and its repercussions are at the pinnacle of everyone’s consciousness across the UK and Europe as professionals on either side of the currently theoretical border find themselves in doubt over ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The relationship between Internal Audit and Cyber Security has grown ever closer in recent times as the former lays the groundwork for the latter by assessing the effectiveness of an organisation’s internal controls and educates the powers that be of the potential risks the business could face. Thus the line between the two disciplines has become somewhat blurred and the opportunities for career ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Don’t just turn up – The Audit Graduate’s Guide to Interview Success 8 basic things to remember at an Audit interview. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail‘. Benjamin Franklin Securing the job interview is just the start of your audit career. Now you need to take time and effort to be ready for the interview. Don’t think that if you just turn up you’ll being given the job. In today’s ...
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Posted on Monday, June 20, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In an area as dynamic and fast-paced as cyber security it should come as no surprise that the skill set required for those needed to fill jobs in information security , risk analysis , IT risk and data analytics is constantly evolving. As technologies advance, the threats and types of attacks progress right along with them and so too the technological antidotes to thwart them; so what is the core ...
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Posted on Friday, June 10, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Acting as the policing equivalent for the cyber sphere , the job of a cyber security professional is essentially to apply their expertise to identify and prevent cyber-attacks. Being able to differentiate between a possible intrusion attempt and general network traffic is a key skill in cyber analytics, where the bulk of the job involves intensive analysis. Responsibilities of a Cyber Security ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an employee in possession of a resignation letter must be in want of a counter offer. A play on a well-thumbed Jane Austen quote concerning fortune and the decisions it thus elicits opens the metaphorical floor for debate around the subject of whether a counter offer should ever be accepted. The overwhelming response is “no”. In most cases, before ever ...
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Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There is a unique approach and way of thinking when it comes to public sector internal audit that sets it apart from its private sector counterpart. Collaborating with charities, healthcare institutions and offices of public government and so on presents an entirely different experience than auditing within a big corporate or multinational firm from the type of stakeholders you encounter to the ...
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Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
An important point to note when applying for management roles within the audit function is not to get too fraught with the wording. Companies may often advertise a senior internal audit position as a managerial post in hopes of attracting the right talent. What is key however is to look not at the job title but at the scope of the role. The job description is where you will find the information ...
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Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The internal audit function has been enjoying a far more prevalent profile over the last couple of years, undoubtedly due to the increased regulatory environment, however when it comes to trainee internal audit jobs there is some shortfall in available talent. Companies struggling to draw in those candidates recently qualified in accountancy are more and more sourcing potential employees ...
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Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The path to seniority sees job opportunities become ever more exclusive and expectations over skill set higher. Head of Internal Audit jobs tend to arise as a result of retirement or employees moving into other areas of the business, so for those heads of audit looking to make a move or find a new opportunity, their sources are likely to come via search firms or their own personal network. An ...
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Posted on Monday, May 9, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
While Dubai has established itself as one of the more advanced countries within the United Arab Emirates, and the GCC at large, it hasn’t been left unaffected by the recent slump in oil prices and the region’s geopolitical risk. With far fewer jobs being advertised within its financial services and banking sector and audit firms, primarily the Big Four, being forced to postpone key hires until ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The digital age has not only sparked an expectation for efficiency and interconnectedness from business to personal matters, it has opened Pandora’s Box in its solution to assemble intellectual property in one space. As hackers and cyber criminals find ways of deceiving companies and the public into leaking personal and sensitive information, the need for cyber security professionals steps up. ...
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Posted on Monday, April 18, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When it comes to interviews for internal audit jobs , preparation is key. One of the most competitive careers on the job market, particularly with the rise in regulations and heightened need for corporate governance, internal auditors must know how to position themselves effectively in front of hiring managers if they are to secure a role. Part of the interview preparation is having an idea of ...
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Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In this modern age the proportion of virtual interviews is likely equal to those conducted face-to-face, however that doesn’t mean that aspiring employees branching out into the areas of internal audit , compliance , risk and cyber security are properly educated as to the etiquette of Skype interviews. Being prepared for the type of job interview you’re having is just as important for your career ...
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Posted on Monday, April 11, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The market for internal audit jobs in the UK is both buoyant and competitive, with particular demand notable within the areas of banking and financial services as the onslaught of regulations continues to drive trends in finance. The ongoing shortage of relevant skills is a definite factor in determining the types of candidates companies are attracted to, with those professionals exhibiting ...
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Posted on Monday, April 11, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
'I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn'. How often have your received this inoffensive, modest invite? Many a-time you will have accepted the overture, tapped the yes button, usually a friend, ex colleague or somebody you already know quite well. But how many times have you ignored it, deleted or even taken affirmative action and callously pressed the 'I don't know' button? ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It’s no secret that the deluge of regulations being enforced across the globe is hugely impacting hiring agendas, with the banking and financial services sectors seeing a substantial increase in headcount last year, a trend set to continue in 2016. Particularly, with the recent implementation of IFRS 102, the market for internal audit jobs in London will most certainly see a significant rise in ...
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Posted on Monday, March 14, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
'We as human beings are narcissistic and lazy', the provocative words of Professor Robana of the London Business School, recently interviewed for Radio 4's programme, 'Six Degrees of Connection'. The point she was making is the importance of 'weak ties'. Most of us get our next job through personal relationships , but not our close ones. Mark Granovetter's classic study, 'The Strength of Weak ...
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Posted on Monday, March 14, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The State of Brexit: In or Out? How will Brexit Affect Auditors? In the wake of David Cameron’s unsuccessful pledge to further reforms of Britain’s status in the EU during his time at the EU summit in Brussels, the likelihood of Brexit is gaining concerning momentum. Cameron’s assertion that he will not be running in 2020 has further disconcerted the Conservatives, a factor which is being held ...
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Posted on Friday, March 4, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
So often audit professionals opt for the career path that is solely about satisfying their work self, disregarding the need for personal fulfilment . City living is attractive for many reasons, however for those who long for the outdoors, warmer climes and shorter commutes there are a plethora of audit opportunities in locales situated in and around the Caribbean and Bermuda . For the most part, ...
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Posted on Monday, February 15, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
According to the Chartered Management Institute's recent report on 'The Quality of Working Life', you are likely having to work over 200 hours of overtime which cancels out the average holiday/bank holiday entitlement of 28 days per year. Sub-headed 'The new normal: longer hours, digital presenteeism and stress', the research reports that 80% of managers work an extra hour per day, equivalent to ...
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Posted on Friday, February 12, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There will always be a place for the auditor on the London job market , both within the public and private sector, with data from the Randstad Financial and Professional supporting the theory that audit jobs are recession proof in revealing an increase of 11.5% of the total salary bill across the full-time accounting profession since 2002. Professionals in London within the audit function ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The ever increasing cost of London living is having a direct effect on the capital’s workforce with a number of banks and financial services firms moving staff, resources and operations to regional outposts in others of the country’s largest cities, including Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham. However, while many of the large banking empires, among them Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, navigate ...
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Posted on Friday, January 29, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Nobody likes receiving criticism; most of us baulk at giving it, and some of us find it hard to convey, or accept, even the positive variety. But make no mistake, feedback is essential not only for growth and development but also to motivate , fulfil and give meaning to what we do. Here's our quick guide to this essential life skill. Not all feedback is equal According to Douglas Stone and Sheila ...
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Posted on Friday, January 29, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Challenges regarding fraud, both pre-existing and new, are creating a lucrative market for professionals looking for risk jobs in London . As companies across a number of different industry sectors find themselves plagued not only by the increasing danger of cybercrime but also by more “low tech” fraud, with employees submitting falsified travel expenses and inaccurate entertainment receipts; the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The economic crisis created a paradigm shift in the way banks and financial institutions are now monitored but in this regulation-heavy climate there are those who believe quality regulation is far more effective than the quantity in which new parameters are being rolled out. So as Mifid II comes into play and the Basel Committee prepares plans to drive forward additional changes across the ...
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Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As regulations continue to come into play across the global business landscape, organisations within the financial services sector , IT and industry and commerce are preparing for the inevitable changes to their practices. Operating across complex global models, businesses need those with change management expertise to come in and guide them through the transitions effected by the directives ...
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Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
'Tis the season of new year resolutions... You may be adding the finishing touches to your annual life plan and audit career path right now or perhaps you’re striving for a dry January, maybe virtuously sustaining those twice weekly gym sessions. But here's a little tip: take out the word try from any and all of your goals, targets or objectives, whether they be enduring aspirations from your ...
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Posted on Monday, January 4, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There is no preamble; you need pragmatic, pertinent advice on how to prioritise at work, rest and play . Let's just get to it: Plan . Admittedly, priorities do vary (even on a daily basis) - and we will come to that in a moment, but the absolute core principle of prioritising is to know WHAT are your priorities in the context of your bigger picture. And this means having clear, focussed goals in ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Within the world of audit, there are various components which must function effectively to streamline the processes and internal controls that make a coherent and correct audit of an organisation. A SOX framework is set up to optimise an organisation’s processes and regulate its internal controls to ensure a smooth running of the business. With the steep increase in regulations being rolled out ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Starting out in a new job can be tough, especially when it seems as though everyone is speaking a foreign language as those in the know volley learned terminologies and abbreviations at each other while you unsuccessfully play the proverbial piggy in the middle. Obtaining some inside knowledge from audit specialists , Pablo Giancarli, an Audit and Risk Consultant with RPG (Resources Global ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The after-effects of the economic crisis are still being felt, and with the release of the much-anticipated report from the FCA and PRA, detailing the erosion of banking group HBOS the lessons are still to be learnt. With regulations spilling out thick and fast, the demand for those in the regulatory compliance function is intense as authorities and industry strive to abide by the processes ...
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Posted on Monday, December 14, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In all my extensive years of personal performance and productivity training in audit, I cannot believe I have never before come across this wonderful word! It's not in general use (but it should be); it's Swedish in origin, with a literal translation of 'time optimism', while the Collins dictionary affords us a more idiomatic definition: 'Tidsoptimist, a person who's habitually late because they ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The financial services landscape has undergone a marked shift as the economy cements its recovery from the 2008 recession and an increase in cyber security attacks has led to the implementation of new and stricter rules and regulations across the globe. Demanding higher levels of expectations and scrutiny when it comes to a company’s compliance management and its audit function, initiatives ...
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Posted on Monday, November 30, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Internal, external, systems or financial, you will, as an auditor, need to influence on a daily basis . But influencing is much more than a core audit skill ; yes, you will find it explicitly referenced in the professional competency frameworks, as a sub-set of communication or interpersonal skills , but look further afield and you will find it key to all professional success, a veritable life ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The market for internal audit jobs in the US is evolving, as the growing concern of cybersecurity and increased global regulations administered to financial institutions adds pressure to businesses foreign and domestic. In the face of CCAR, Volcker, Dodd-Frank and the Basel III Accord, companies are being forced to reassess their aptitude for assessing risk in order to satisfy regulatory ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
I've quoted it before, and I'll quote it again, but are you aware that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is more critical to your professional audit success than the intellectual variety? The EI story goes all the way back to the 1990s with the publication of Goleman's inaugural book, 'Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ' and the TIME magazine cover that roared, 'IQ gets you hired, ...
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Posted on Monday, November 2, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There has been widespread regional market expansion across the Midlands, as a growing number of businesses move their operations out of London in a bid to cut costs. Hiring activity as a result has grown along with this expansion meaning internal audit opportunities in the East Midlands and West Midlands have increased. According to Hector Cruz, Head of UK Audit for National Grid, “the job market ...
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Posted on Friday, October 30, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Conflict , definition, Oxford Dictionaries: Noun - 'a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one'. Verb - 'be incompatible or at variance; clash'. I last wrote about conflict for CareersinAudit.com several years ago; that was a fairly comprehensive article , describing the different types of conflict with a selection of suggestions for resolution. Five years on, and the prospect ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Internal audit professionals at either end of the spectrum, from newly qualified to those individuals at executive level, are much in demand across the North West regions of England as companies equally look to fill the gaps left vacant in 2013 and work to redefine strategy and processes as they prepare for a busier market environment. The migration of businesses to the North in a bid to cut ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Taking a general global view it is clear that the health of China, the world’s second largest economy, is in some degree of jeopardy, a situation made only more severe by the threat of the US Federal Reserve edging closer towards raising interest rates. The risk of deflation and drop in commodity prices poses a major threat to the world’s economies with those candidates looking to pave their way ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Coming into the fore as one of Europe’s fastest moving job markets, Ireland certainly seems to be making some recovery following the global recession . As the market regains confidence there has been a greater level of movement on the job front and this increase in turnover has in turn opened up many more opportunities, with internal audit jobs ranking high on the agenda thanks to the increase in ...
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Posted on Monday, October 26, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Cyber security jobs in Europe may be taking a while longer to move up the hiring agenda as the majority of businesses seem reluctant to treat cybercrime with the level of concern it warrants. According to the 2015 European Cyber Risk Survey, 79% of businesses have a basic understanding of their cyber risk profiles leaving them exposed to cybercriminals looking for weak spots. With an EU directive ...
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Posted on Monday, October 26, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Regional hot spots across the UK are attracting more job seekers than ever as the fallout from the recession and ever-increasing property prices in London encourage professionals to look further afield when it comes to career opportunities. The job market in Bristol and the South West region of England in particular has come out on top as one of the healthiest in the country, with salaries ...
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Posted on Monday, October 26, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For internal auditors navigating a career on French soil, the key thing to acknowledge is the country’s evolving internationalisation. From start-ups, of which there are plenty, to the larger established commercial groups, hiring managers are placing the utmost priority on language skills so candidates who are fluent in French and English and one or more additional languages are in the highest ...
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Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There is a tremendous appetite for information security expertise across both the public and private sectors in the US in the wake of recent well-publicised hacks such as Sony, OPM and Ashley Madison. That being said, opportunities in cyber security in the US are not necessarily easy to break into, despite the demand for experts in this field and the overwhelming shortage of those in possession ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
All well-appointed within the heart of Europe, Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands represent prime breeding ground for internal audit jobs , and 2015 has seen the demand for the internal audit function strengthen as companies refocus their energies away from cost-cutting and towards investment, financial control and strategy changes. A low corporate tax haven, the Netherlands like Belgium ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
All well-appointed within the heart of Europe, Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands represent prime breeding ground for internal audit jobs, and 2015 has seen the demand for the internal audit function strengthen as companies refocus their energies away from cost-cutting and towards investment, financial control and strategy changes. Touting German, French and Luxembourgish as its three ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It's conference season It's crazy conference season and as a veteran circuit speaker, this is the peak time of my working year. Closely akin to the external auditor's January equivalent (those of us with the glut of December year ends and insane international reporting deadlines), it feels like a full twelve months are compressed into just six weeks. But this year I'm taking a new perspective, ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
All well-appointed within the heart of Europe, Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands represent prime breeding ground for internal audit jobs , and 2015 has seen the demand for the internal audit function strengthen as companies refocus their energies away from cost-cutting and towards investment, financial control and strategy changes. Located in the heart of Europe and regarded as the ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Both Germany and Switzerland are well reputed for offering an exceptional standard of living, and for professionals looking for internal audit opportunities in either region there is a rich market across both commerce and industry and financial services . Widely reputed as offering the highest quality of living in the world, Switzerland is at the top of most internationally flexible auditors’ ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You know how it is when someone in your office starts coughing and sneezing? You're sympathetic, offer them some kind words of commiseration, but all you can really think of is 'please don't give it to me'. We're all familiar with, (and wary of,) the infectious symptoms of physical disease - and we are naturally inclined to take defensive action. But did you know that emotions and behaviours can ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Both Germany and Switzerland are well reputed for offering an exceptional standard of living, and for professionals looking for internal audit opportunities in either region there is a rich market across both commerce and industry and financial services . The first point to note is that while gender imbalance in the workforce is essentially a global issue, the German government in particular are ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2015 by Simon Wright, CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the Scene In the wake of a number of corporate scandals this millennium, Enron and WorldCom arguably being the most notable, the question of ethics and professional standards for the accounting profession has understandably come under much greater scrutiny. To some degree, different industry bodies and governments have been proactively tackling this issue over the past decade. For ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Cyber security career opportunities in the UK are at their highest as technologies evolve at lightning speed and hackers of every kind find ways of undermining their integrity just as quickly. With an undeniable shortage of cyber security experts in the UK market , employers are quick to assert the types of individuals they are interested in attracting and the skills that make for a coveted ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It would take a particularly news- and social media-deficient individual to not have heard about the most recent and high profile cyber security breach; the impact of extracurricular marital dating site Ashley Madison’s data leak was felt round the world. The fate of companies including Ashley Madison, Fiat Chrysler and Dixons Carphone, all targeted by hackers in the past quarter alone does ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Readers of CareersinAudit Agony Aunt pages will be familiar with my lyrical waxing on the much maligned value of transferable skills . Aka the misnamed 'soft skill set', personal and professional development over and above technical prowess is, indisputably, an audit Critical Success Factor. That is, a CSF, not just for advancement and promotion, but also as a crucial underpinning of effective ...
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Posted on Friday, September 25, 2015 by Careersinaudit.com — No comments
Amid the far more stringent regulatory climate that has resulted from the failures of the economic crisis, the London market for internal audit jobs has flourished and with more jobs than candidates, opportunities are rife. The lateral moves of 2008-2010 have been shaken up over the past five years by the strengthened UK economy, a more positive outlook and subsequent increase in salaries leading ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2015 by Careersinaudit.com — No comments
The IT Audit market across the Asia Pacific region has been a growing practice throughout 2015 with a number of industries placing the IT Audit function high up on their hiring agenda. This sentiment is reflected in the increase of IT Audit jobs available in the expected areas of banking and financial services and in manufacturing. As further new and developing technologies emerge across the ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2015 by Careersinaudit.com — No comments
The consistent theme of hefty fines being brought down upon the banking and financial services industry by global regulators is resonating across all areas of business. The impact of the global financial downturn is still reverberating throughout financial institutions in the shape of numerous regulatory changes calling for a clarification of risk data. Where those operating in financial risk ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many of us carry round a whole lot of clutter. I'm not talking handbags and briefcases here, rather the mental baggage that clutters up our minds and slows down our thinking processes . Tasks that we tell ourselves we should do, but we don't do. Conversations that we should have but we don't. Bad habits which we could break but we don't break. That's a whole lot of coulds and shoulds, consuming ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The economic crisis caused a seismic shift in the global economy, and for the UK the transformation it has undergone since 2008 has also affected the types of jobs now occurring most frequently on the hiring agenda. From the Lehman Brothers and the downward spiral of its banking peers to the growth in technology across all areas of life, risk professionals have come to the fore as businesses have ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Personal Brand: the auditor behind the numbers Does it sound a bit fluffy? Put the terms 'personal' and 'brand' together and you could be envisioning, an image-conscious metrosexual, style without the substance and not something that you'd necessarily associate with your professional life. We tend to think about brand in the context of commercial organisations and can't deny (or avoid) its ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When Fiction makes a better job of the truth¹ I read. Relentlessly, rapaciously and rapidly. I read everything and anything , wherever and whenever. Online, in dusty libraries, kindled or tree-hewn, I'm as passionate about literature as I am about my professional reading. Which is why it's rather perplexing that I don't often use fictional finds to inspire my business writing. Until now, that is. ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Salaries not quite booming When the President of the United States makes reference to cyber threats as a national emergency, there may well be a feeling of precedence for those working in security – that they have the good fortune to be working in the right profession, at the right time. There is little doubt that most companies recognise it is not a question of if they will be attacked but a ...
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Posted on Friday, August 14, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The current market for external audit jobs in Asia Pacific is largely governed both by current regulations as well as by the qualities most yearned for by the Big 4 professional services firms. From the Singaporean government’s restrictions on foreign hires to an emphasis on higher standards of financial reporting across the external audit function; opportunities in the APAC region are dependent ...
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Posted on Friday, August 7, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In light of a series of publicised risk events within the banking and financial industry , the issue of operational risk management is hot on the agenda for CEOs, CROs, risk managers and those in both the internal and external audit functions. Thus the market for operational risk opportunities in the UK and Europe is extremely buoyant. From bank ATM collapses, as those which affected Greece in ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Stable government positive for recruitment Against expectations, post election, the UK not only has a government, but a stable one. This is a positive development for those looking to participate in the risk recruitment market. Another positive is a growing and increasingly profitable financial services sector. However, the cost of regulation is a major concern to the industry and one that has ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
S table government positive for recruitment At the start of 2015, we reported a confident recruitment market where 78% of internal audit departments anticipated they would need to recruit in 2015. Real earnings had finally started to turn positive and with low inflation and even a short spell of deflation, earnings in both the wider economy and internal auditing were starting to accelerate. ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Here we are, full bodied summer. Facebook is alive with golden sands and jubilant families, the light is bright, the sun is (mostly) shining and the days are long enough for life after work. As nature luxuriates in its fertile peak, what time could be more sublime in the northern hemisphere? ( Oceania readers count your perennial blessings as you bask in your kinder mid winter!) Summertime, and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Stable government positive for recruitment Against expectations, post election the UK not only has a government, but a stable one. This is a positive development for those looking to participate in the compliance recruitment market. Another positive is a growing and increasingly profitable financial services sector. However, the cost of regulation is a major concern to the industry and one that ...
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Posted on Monday, August 3, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The interview process is arguably the most important stage of securing a job in audit . Once a candidate has sold him or herself on paper, it is important that the black and white transfers to real life otherwise it is unlikely that you are going to close the deal. More and more audit candidates, particularly graduates fresh from completing university, are approaching interviews with the wrong ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The changing regulations that are impacting the financial services landscape continue to keep the functions of risk, compliance and audit at the top of the hiring priority list for companies across the Asia Pacific region. In addition, amid this internet-proficient age the very real threat to companies that comes by way of cyber-space has led to a need to reinforce defences in this area. Japan ...
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
“It’s only words.” Song title by the BeeGees. “Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.” Douglas Adams ‘The long dark tea-time of the soul’ The first impression that your future potential Audit manager will have about you will come from reading your CV or resume . So you need to make it the best you possibly ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The main theme that is evident across the region for the internal audit function has to do with supply and demand as employers are looking to fill a unique set of criteria within a limited talent pool. The role of Internal Audit has become more specialised in response to an increase in regulations being rolled out both globally and locally. Financial services firms are in need of candidates ...
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Posted on Friday, June 26, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in an open plan office is not unlike sharing a house. Even with hot-desking, you'll most likely get to know your neighbours rather well, they may be physically closer than you would like and you learn to rub along with their charming peccadilloes. There are many beneficial features of communal working , not least the fact that humans are naturally social creatures, hard wired to promote ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The future for compliance candidates across Asia Pacific is bright, according to data from Morgan McKinley which revealed its figures for Q1 of 2015 earlier this month. Despite a less than promising final quarter in 2014, the Asia Pacific Employment Monitor registered a 21% year-on-year rise in financial services roles. A rise reflected in the hiring trends for organisations across the Asia Pac ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you an auditor with plentiful audit experience and currently looking to move up to a top audit job internationally ? Are you struggling to get noticed, despite your many applications for international audit jobs and being a consistently high achiever? Firstly, let me reassure you from the outset that if you have worked for a long time at a public sector institution and you are looking to move ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Presenting & Public Speaking: proficient, painless and possibly, positively pleasurable. Part One. Presenting and public speaking perturb me, not. You'll find me one of the more vocal contributors at the table; I'll regularly chair and facilitate, present to board and I'm a habitual conference speaker . I think I'm probably relatively good at presenting and public speaking; I get asked back and ...
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Posted on Monday, June 15, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
'Obsessive email-checking is making us a generation of idiots', Professor Sir Cary Cooper, writing in The Guardian, May 2015 I do it. My husband does it. As do my kids, my desk neighbour, my boss and almost all my clients. The scourge of the smart phone, widely proclaimed as work-life balance liberator, saviour of flexible working is, in fact, proving to be our captor rather than our redeemer as ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
I often receive letters from readers with regard to perceived, age-related career issues. I say 'perceived', not to be flippant, but to make an important fundamental point. Once upon a time, it was expected and even considered mandatory to put one's date of birth on the CV, right at the top along with essentials such as name, address and telephone number. But nowadays it is not. Countries across ...
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Posted on Monday, May 18, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
I've been writing about time management for many years now. In fact, it was one of the very first topics on which I was consulted as a coach to the perpetually busy, audit and accountancy profession . And still it sits at number one on the angst list. Given the question 'what would make the most difference to your life and work just now', the response remains a predictable, 'better time ...
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Posted on Friday, May 8, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Remembering your Career Goals Think back to the career your seven-year old self envisioned. Perhaps you saw yourself saving lives or performing to enraptured audiences. Maybe you simply imagined yourself swathed in a business suit with a briefcase. And while as a child you probably didn’t conceive a life of a Compliance Manager or IT Auditor before you; many auditors take on the role because it ...
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Posted on Monday, April 20, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Mindset Audit No can do. That's never going to happen. You won't get that through. Way above my pay grade. I just can't... Any of these sound familiar? They should do to regular readers, as they all portend to a fixed mindset , a set of limiting beliefs that assumes our abilities are static. From the school of 'you've either got it or you haven't', a fixed mindset is founded on the assumption ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We would all like to be paid more for the work we do. Though you may derive true meaning from your work as an Internal Audit Manager or get job satisfaction in your Credit Risk role, most of us are motivated by fiscal returns. Know what you should be paid Being informed is the best way to know that you are receiving what you deserve. Quietly ask around for what your colleagues are receiving. Do ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For those of you who are considering embarking on an audit career or changing your role within the industry, you may wish to consider Quality Assurance . Often confused with Quality Control , this strain of auditing involves establishing policies and procedures to ensure an organisation’s standards are maintained and enhanced. To fully contemplate a career in this field, you will need to know ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A recent ABC investigation has concluded that full time earnings for men and women within the same job continue to be staggeringly disparate. Taking findings from a 2015 Australian Bureau of Statistics report, the ABC found that the distinction between male and female wages for the same occupation is as much as 48%. Of course, naysayers can plead skewed statistics or even that “men work harder ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
People typically associate auditors with numbers and figures. When thinking of auditors, their mind may conjure an image of an introverted type solitarily hunched over spreadsheets and a calculator. Whether this has ever been an accurate representation of an auditor or merely a stereotype is debatable, but what is certain today is that an auditor cannot hope to thrive in their profession without ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that as an auditor we do want to do the best job possible. We can make a glut of resolutions in January to develop our career, put in more effort, and change habits from those of apathy to determination but sometime around mid-March those resolutions can deflate beneath the burden of tiredness, lack of motivation, or distraction. It becomes necessary to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many a time on these pages we have asserted that auditing is people-business; we've waxed lyrical about communication , managing up and down, and building relationships. We never said it was easy, so what about those times when it all comes down to one difficult individual? You know the score: someone who just doesn't 'get it', who blocks you, is uncomfortable to deal with, and at the extreme, ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Consider two statements: The first; that most of us have multiple social media accounts, whether Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… the list goes on. The second; that it is common practice for potential employers to do an online search to investigate potential job candidates. Now before you start deleting photos from last month’s work drinks, take a moment to think about an active social media can ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In this time of such a competitive labour market and faceless, virtual job applications, time-poor audit recruitment managers do not feel themselves obliged to studiously consider each résumé from the relentless torrent they receive for their job advertisements. You have a limited amount of time in which to make a good impression and this makes it essential that your CV is in the best shape it ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Regular advertisers of audit jobs on CareersinAudit.com, Internal Audit Connections (IAC) and its partners involve themselves further in the audit community by running seminars throughout the year for senior members of the Audit and Risk community on various industry related themes. 'The Seminar Series' is designed to provide insights and discussion on relevant topics for senior audit and risk ...
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Posted on Monday, February 9, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
These days I carry out a sizeable amount of my work remotely; meetings, client sessions, learning and development, they are all as likely to be facilitated by a device or a receiver than around a tangible table. And I'm speculating that if this is not the pattern of your own current workload, then it will, in time, become an emerging trend for you too. After all in this land of the cloud, awash ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We’ve all heard the saying; “Queensland: sunny one day, perfect the next” and Queensland’s capital city, Brisbane, is no exception. The subtropical stalwart of outdoors living is no stranger to backyard pools, river cruising, and council-provided public barbeques. But the sunny climate is not the only reason Brisbane was rated the #2 Most Liveable Australian city and 25th in the world in Monocle ...
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Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Busy doing nothing? Are you effective or merely efficient? Long-standing readers of my articles and Audit Agony Aunt responses will have heard me wax-lyrical many-a-time about the difference between effectiveness and efficiency. I make no apology today for returning to my soap box. In this VUCA milieu of constant change, ever-accelerating pace and deepening complexity, it is more critical than ...
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Posted on Friday, January 30, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With a booming economy and leading role in international commerce, it comes as no surprise that thousands of Australians flock to the grey skies and green parks of London every year. More career opportunities with typically more cosmopolitan clientele than Australia means that London professional experience is highly valued in expatriates. One such expat is twenty-five year old Monique Neumann, a ...
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Posted on Friday, January 30, 2015 by Lynn Wight — No comments
For the past 18 months, Scotland has been in the world’s spotlight most notably the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which saw Glasgow play host to representatives from Commonwealth countries and their sportsmen and women in one of the biggest globally televised events the country has seen. The world also eagerly followed the Scottish referendum, which had its high and low points, but was a momentous ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
All businesses have objectives and, like any goals, they need to be regularly assessed to make sure they’re on track, involving the notification of discrepancies and recommendations for rectification. This is where internal auditing comes in. Internal auditing is one type of accounting job. Internal auditors work for the same company that they review. Their main job is to review the company’s ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
‘What is the difference between internal and external auditing?’ This is one of the most asked questions by graduates who are considering a career in the field of audit. Although both professions involve the auditing process, there are distinct differences between the two job functions. The most obvious difference is in the name – internal vs. external . Internal auditors are employees within the ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With the disappointing unemployment rate and waning economic condition in the UK, more and more professional auditors are now considering working for other nations, like the Caribbean . In April 2013, the International Monetary Fund or IMF confirmed that the Caribbean is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. In this time, when developed countries were still struggling to shake off ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015 by CareersinAudit — No comments
Gone are the days when the only way to find a job is by looking at classified ads in daily newspapers. Today, with the rise of social media, job hunting has become interactive and creative, so long as you know how to use it to its greatest advantage. Social media platforms don’t just connect long lost friends; they are not just for sharing memes or for those who love to chat. Social media can ...
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Posted on Friday, January 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
All types of auditors, whether IT Auditor, Internal, External, Risk, or Compliance professional, come to a stage in their careers where they must choose between working for a private company or the public sector. What does Public vs. Private mean? The public sector involves organisations pertaining to public interest, such as Education, Transport, or Health. The public sector is usually operated ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Audit + Risk, another pairing of soul mates! But dear auditor, a word of warning... If you have landed here looking for a discussion on inherent, control and detection risk, then I fear you have strayed off course. But before we chase you back to your browser in search of the more traditional couplings, stay with us awhile and discover how managing another category of risk is vital to your career ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Find your audit perfect job with CareersinAudit.com , the world's leading job board and career website for Internal Audit, External Audit, IT Audit, Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security, Corporate Governance, GRC, Advisory and Assurance professionals. We know job hunting can be time consuming, so to help you get the most from the site, we've compiled the following guide on how to search and apply for ...
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Posted on Monday, December 1, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Stakeholder: noun, a person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business. Conflict: verb, be incompatible or at variance; clash. Put the two together and you have the vital stuff of audit life. From regulators to the board of directors and the audit committee, from internal to external audit and, at the micro level, from yourself to your line manager and your own wider team, ...
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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For those of you too young to remember, it was Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film ‘Wall Street’ who gave us the classic line: ‘Lunch? Aw, you gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps’. Michael Douglas played the role of Gekko, the greedy corporate raider, who has, in retrospect, come to be seen as the archetype of 1980s excess. That was over quarter of a century ago, in a world so very different from ...
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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In today’s business world, the effective transfer of information and seamless function of business processes are crucial commodities, which is why a career in GRC can prove highly rewarding. One must understand the founding principles of GRC in order to embark on a successful career in the GRC industry. ‘GRC’ is a term that encompasses the Governance, Risk and Compliance policies a company has in ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Contact Singapore — No comments
As the ‘world’s easiest place to do business’ (World Bank’s Doing Business 2013 Report), Singapore has cemented herself as a strategic base for global advisory services leader PwC. Experts in the Asia Pacific, the company has been at the forefront of the region’s economic emergence, and continues to lead the market here. Witnessing the growth of the industry first–hand has been Australian expat ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Launched in 2005 and leading the way ever since, CareersinAudit.com is an award winning job board and career resource for Internal Audit, External Audit, IT Audit, Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security, Corporate Governance, GRC, Advisory and Assurance professionals. On the site you will find the very latest audit jobs from the world’s top employers, you can keep up-to-date with auditing industry news ...
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Posted on Monday, November 3, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
'He screams at me, complains about me to my team and my peers, like a sport. This week he wanted to have a meeting with me and I had to sit in front of him and hear that 90% of the people working with me do not want to have anything more to do with me. If I ask him why I am still on board in a leading position, he just says 'I am not in a position to decide''. The paragraph above is an extract ...
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Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
After a nine year 'sabbatical', I re-joined the corporate race earlier this month. With my glossy visage swinging merrily on a lanyard, the bliss of IT on short dial and equipped with my securID for remote intranet access, from home office to open plan, this is back to the future for me. In nine years, nothing had changed, yet everything is different. Unexpectedly the question on the lips of my ...
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Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the Scene The accountancy profession has always been a natural career choice for those who have an interest in business and finance. For others, it means a guaranteed solid career, whilst there are those who see the training and experience as providing a great foundation for running their own business later on in their working lives. Yet, finding the right firm to embark and progress your ...
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com and the Audit Agony Aunt — No comments
Welcome to a brand new professional development series, created, crafted and customised to the needs of the audit professional. We are excited and delighted to bring you a monthly discourse, designed to fill those crucial gaps in your CPD; namely, the professional, personal and business skills and competencies that are sometimes over-looked in the quest for technical greatness! Ch-ch-changes... ...
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Posted on Monday, September 8, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Last week I met a colleague from my Ernst & Young days. A peer, a friend but someone I hadn't seen for around ten years. Delighted to see them, I was rather wrong-footed when they lurched forward with an embrace of salutation, which due to my clumsiness ended up as a minor scuffle and a less than elegant extrication! Well, forgive me but we never would have done anything like that ten years ago! ...
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Posted on Monday, August 18, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Elephants in the Audit Room - whatever next? 'Elephant in the room' is an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is either being ignored or going unaddressed. The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss. Wikipedia . You are an open, honest, skilled professional. As an auditor, you are all about sniffing out fault lines, evaluating risk ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
I opened this resilience programme last summer with Andy Murray's epic Wimbledon triumph, all the more poignant thanks to all those years he doggedly held on in there subsequent to his first semi-final appearance in 2009. And here we are at the 2014 finals, minus a certain Mr Murray, but if there's one thing the commentators agree - Andy will be back! Tenacious, durable and focussed, nobody it ...
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Posted on Friday, June 6, 2014 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Throughout this programme we've regularly alluded to the importance of help and support, both in building resilience and remaining resilient. Our penultimate lesson is wholly dedicated to these often undervalued resources; we'll be considering why they matter and what you can do to strengthen your sources of support. 'Building good relationships with others and seeking support can help ...
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Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Let's start a quick quiz. Which of these words belong together: audit, smart, risk, controls, cool, systems, compliance, assurance, sexy, humour? Resisting the cheesiness of sexy systems and cool controls, I contend they all belong together. We may not naturally put them together or hear them in the same breath and, to the outside world they may chime discordant, but we know the sheer bliss of ...
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Posted on Friday, April 11, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
So, you’ve passed your CPA exam and now you think you’re ready to get into the job market to start making your own money. As an auditor with a new CPA license, you have several options when looking for a job. You may choose to work for large companies or CPA firms that usually conduct the majority of global audits of public companies or those that sell their stock on market exchanges such as ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014 by Olivier Vidal for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The term company culture became widespread in the late 80s. It is a sociological concept concerning the workplace environment and the movement of employees through this space. A company's personality is shaped by its values and ethics, missions, goals and expectations. You should think about the concept seriously before you change job, to help your success at work. Company culture is largely ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014 by Olivier Vidal for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
So you have been offered a new consultancy job, but how can you ensure you live up to the expectations of your new boss? The simple answer is to stop thinking about things from your own career perspective. Instead, turn it around and look at yourself from the point of view of your new employer. This should help to make you more prepared to take on the position, as well as to highlight the ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014 by Olivier Vidal for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
An exciting future in another country could be more than just a dream for audit professionals who choose the right career moves. Recruiters, whether agency or in-house , can be a little cynical about how seriously people are prepared to change. We share some ideas to make you hard to ignore and show you are serious. Do It Yourself Relying 100% on even the best audit recruitment consultants can be ...
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Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014 by Olivier Vidal for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Research tells us that we learn the most through experiencing memorable narratives and this is no different when it comes to job applications. Too many candidates let themselves down by fading into the background, but turning your CV into an engaging narrative of your working life to date can help you to stand out. Careers are difficult things to manage at the best of times, so making sure you ...
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Posted on Monday, April 7, 2014 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
The Resilient Auditor, Part 7: 'As is our confidence, so is our capacity' (W Hazlitt) 'Having feelings of competence, effectiveness in coping with stressful situations and strong self-esteem are inherent to being resilient' (Ivan Robertson and Cary Cooper) If you haven't undertaken it already, now is opportune to remind you of our recommended diagnostic, the i-resilience questionnaire. Accessible ...
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Posted on Friday, April 4, 2014 by Olivier Vidal — No comments
When you're scanning the jobs listings for your next accountancy job , it's worth remembering that these adverts are generally not wholly representative of the role itself. Carry out a quick audit of the jobs pages, and you'll find the same uninspiring phrases and standard write-ups. In fact, what your informal jobs listing audit will show is that in terms of careers and progression, these specs ...
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Posted on Friday, April 4, 2014 by Olivier Vidal for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Maybe you started the year with good intentions of improving you career prospects. It’s not too late to do an audit of your career and ensure this is the year you make a change for the better. Executive recruitment has become a bigger and more varied market. It can be hard for those looking for new audit careers to know exactly where to turn for help. Everyone is looking for the best candidates, ...
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Posted on Friday, February 14, 2014 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Stress: The Elephant in the Room Welcome to part six of the Resilient Auditor where this time we are facing head on, the topic of stress. Over the first half of the programme we've laid solid foundations to develop your understanding of resilience; we know what it is and why it matters, and we've alluded to its antidotal properties in respect of stress. In this article, we are going to look more ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
An External Audit is a periodic audit conducted by an independent qualified auditor with the aim to determine whether the accounting records for a business are complete and accurate. It is also done to ensure that the statements accurately represent the organisation’s financial position and are prepared in accordance to the set laws. An external auditor is an independent, third party professional ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you currently looking for an auditing job in the United Kingdom ? The year 2014 poses a number of challenges for both the audit jobseeker and the companies who are recruiting. By making yourself aware of the challenges that companies are facing you can prepare for tricky interview questions and refine your job search tactics. The goal is to make you more prepared and more competitive, thereby ...
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Posted on Monday, January 13, 2014 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
A happy auditor? It seems a bizarre topic for what has been popularly dubbed the most depressing month of the calendar year. Post holiday blues, broken resolutions, bleak weather (in the northern hemisphere at least) and strapped bank balances do not augur well for a happy auditor. And for many in audit this is by far the busiest time of the year. A glut of December year ends with brutal January ...
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Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The auditing industry offers many and varying career opportunities and with the internet being such a big feature in business, new doors have opened to those who wish to specialise in the auditing of online based activities. Why is it important for auditors to regulate online services? E-commerce and gaming sites that allow for transactions have become a massive industry across the world and the ...
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Posted on Monday, December 16, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is sometimes suggested that the finest internal auditors are individuals who have actually invested time beyond the audit department and have observed exactly how different risk responsibilities work (external auditing, IT auditing , risk evaluation , compliance , tax auditing). Taking on a qualifying, Inter-Organizational Transfer ( IOT ), whenever a new slot turns up, is one approach to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Compliance is a tough sector to break into and it is wise to make sure that it's the right sector for you before you make your way into it. Compliance is a sector that involves a lot of challenges and high pressure decisions and applying for a job in compliance needs to be considered before you go headfast into it. Below are five tips to consider when applying for compliance jobs: 1. Have you got ...
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Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As an external auditor it’s your responsibility to ensure the company you work for gives a true and fair view of its financial position. This is mainly shown through its financial statements and reports. You are ensuring the company has worked 100% honestly to earn any profits or accrue any assets. It’s a high pressure role that’s constantly changing and as many external audit job roles are held ...
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Posted on Monday, December 2, 2013 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
December. What does it mean to you? Last minute Christmas shopping or expectations of highfalutin, domestic multi-tasking perhaps? Maybe a long overdue fiesta, mellow with eating, drinking and socialising? Or a frenzied push to get done what needs to be done, before the extended seasonal break heralds the January stress-fest? Even if you are not an accountant or auditor grappling with a heavy ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Effective risk management is gradually being more frequently viewed as one of the crucial elements of being successful in business. By minimising any potential perils and their consequent impact on a company, auditors offer a better working environment to organisations no matter what their size. Increase your potential for audit recruitment, and stand out from the rest when it comes to applying ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Job descriptions are the recruiter’s first point of contact with potential employees, so it’s important not only that they attract a number of candidates, but the most suitable candidates for the job you are offering. A job description is the recruiter’s all important first step in the hiring process, so take a look at our handy guide to writing a better description and therefore maximising your ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Once you’ve committed yourself to a career in the audit sector, applied to the firms or roles that appeal to you and have made it to the individual interview stage, it’s time to do some serious planning. Your interview technique can make or break your entry into the industry, so to increase your chances of getting the job you want, keep the following preparation tips in mind: Research We cannot ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Moving into a senior position in your auditing company or the auditing division of your company takes commitment and dedication. Information security jobs are becoming more popular and roles in this sector are highly sought after. They carry a high level of responsibility and confidentiality issues are rife but moving into the IT Security sector can be highly rewarding. The role of Head of ...
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Posted on Monday, November 11, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the scene Forty years ago the expression ‘a job for life’ was par for the course for many in the audit and accountancy profession. Of course in the 21st century, it’s a different story. A change in traditional employment models has meant that many more are empowered to consider moving jobs and have bigger career aspirations. There is a far greater choice of roles and we are seeing an ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Benefits of Working as a Virtual Auditor An auditor has a very complex role in which the person is directly responsible for the analysis and evaluation of processes for the company they work for. The main element of their role involves the thorough investigation of the processes, products, systems and employees of the company involved. Once they have carried out their investigations, they can ...
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Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 by By Carol McLachlan — No comments
Question: when did you last feel anxious, panicked or under stress? Maybe you've tried a little extreme sport. Bungee jumping, hang gliding, white water rafting? Or perhaps a hair-raising roller coaster ride? Or what about an unexpected incident? A near miss on the motorway? A stolen laptop? Or that feeling, before, during and after a job interview ? What physical symptoms did you experience? ...
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Posted on Monday, October 7, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
IT auditing in China has enjoyed rapid progress with much of the investment in exploration made by China's National Auditing Office. As information technology grew rapidly in the 1990s, the government acknowledged that the application of computer technologies was constantly expanding into various aspects of life resulting in the need for auditors to master information technology. The response ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Purpose: If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you've got there? You didn't get the job. Or perhaps you just got turned down for that promotion. How do you feel? Frustrated? Cheated? Demoralized? What do you tell yourself? Its right back to square one...I wished I had never bothered...I'm just stuck where I am...And what do you actually do? Go back to the drawing board? ...
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Posted on Monday, September 16, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Age discrimination rocks accountancy profession Lack of transparency over why accountants aged 40+ fail to get the job Age discrimination in the accountancy profession is rife, according to the latest survey by CareersinAudit.com . Since 2010, CareersinAudit.com has conducted annual mid-year research to gauge how auditors and accountants across the globe view the job market. This year we ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 12, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Switching careers is a huge step and it can take investing both your money and your time to successfully jump from one career to another. This process is generally not easy, especially for those who have a mortgage to pay, a family to support, or a car to worry about. However, if you’re really interested and dedicated to moving into auditing from your current career, here’s how you can do it: 1. ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in the auditing industry leads to many different career opportunities. Auditing roles usually fall into two camps though, internal and external, and it’s important to understand these implicitly before looking too closely at specialisms or niches. Internal vs. External Internal auditors work within an organisation and report to its audit committee and/or directors. They help to design the ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’ve recently graduated and are dedicated to a career in auditing then you need to keep our tips in mind. Whether you’re focused on becoming an internal auditor or an external auditor you can benefit from our tips and they may be exactly what you need to help you along the path to your dream career. 1. Build your Network If you’ve been dedicated to an auditing career for some time then ...
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Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
When applying for audit jobs , it pays to be well prepared for your potential interviews with the hiring companies. The way you present yourself and answer each question they ask you will help your potential employer determine if you’re the best candidate for the job. But is just answering their questions enough to land that job? If you intend to show up and just answer the interviewer’s ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
Assurance, by definition, means to provide a certain degree of certainty of a future event by performing a study of related past events. Therefore, assurance jobs , especially financial assurance jobs, focus mainly on carefully studying a company’s past performances to ensure any financial commitment by investors. Assurance is similar to an audit in terms of reviewing a company’s financial ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
In the financial market, information is of great importance, and so is compliance to the best practices that have been established. Without reliable information and without proper compliance, there is no way to ensure that a business will go in the right direction. Thus, compliance auditors are now highly in demand, and they are now offered various positions from entry-level to higher leadership ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
T he Internet has changed a lot of things, and the world of information technology, especially in terms of privacy and information security, is not exempt from these changes. Unfortunately, the change is not all for the better. What Has Happened? Information plays a key role in business as well as in the economy. The knowledge of specific information can spell the difference between business ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The uncertain economic times of the past few years have had a major effect on how companies operate these days. Companies that used to operate smoothly with the help of forecasts and projections now refrain from making business judgements that are set in stone. Now, companies have a renewed focus: to manage risk. Risk is the main cause of uncertainty in any organisation. Thus, companies ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
If you’re looking for compliance jobs or you are currently employed as a compliance staff or manager, it pays to be up-to-date with current events and news in the industry you belong to. Some of the best sources of latest industry information about compliance include the top news websites for the compliance industry. Not only are they full of information, they are also very convenient and highly ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Resilience: What does it mean and why does it matter? Resilience is in the news. Whether we're talking Andy Murray and his bid for the Wimbledon title, doggedly holding on in there since he made his first semi-final appearance in 2009. Or rugby, where we watched the Lions, 'snatching defeat from the jaws of victory' as one commentator put it, to then roar home to win against Australia in their ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
With the UK economy struggling to recover from a recession, many auditors are looking to the international market to further their careers. Moving to another country for work could help you progress at a quicker pace, by letting you move within a healthier, more rapidly growing economy. Moving to the International Market Taking an auditor role within another country could open up a bigger scope ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 8, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working as an auditor is a precise and in depth role tracking the financial records of firms, and ensuring that the paperwork is fully up to date. Reviewing the accounts, collating data, identifying any problems in processes and record keeping and making sure that tax information is properly recorded and submitted is all part of the auditor’s responsibility. There are many ways an auditor can ...
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Posted on Friday, July 26, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
External Auditors are hired by companies or organisations to carry out independent audits based on specific laws and ensure that financial reporting is aligned with generally accepted auditing guidelines. Users of financial information such as government agencies, shareholders, and the general public rely on external auditors to provide impartial, unbiased audit reports. As an external auditor , ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 18, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In order to survive an audit, it is important that bookkeepers implement systems that offer up tangible and coherent trails. With a clear trail in place, auditors can make sense of the information provided and follow the route all the way up to the relevant bookkeeping entry in the accounts. Each step of the journey needs to be accounted for with evidence, and without this, a bookkeeper’s ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 18, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The vast majority of organisations are legally-obliged to publish audited accounts on an annual basis. This enables companies to show their transparency and that they have been working in a legal manner. Audited accounts are not just of interest to government authorities but to various other parties too, including people like shareholders and potential investors. Audits are generally carried out ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Dr Carol McLachlan FCA, theaccountantscoach, is a qualified accountant, NLP Practitioner and professionally qualified coach. For two decades she worked in Audit and Assurance at EY as a client handler and as Director of Resources, and this hands-on experience has equipped her with a real understanding of the professional and personal issues that auditors face. As theaccountantscoach she works in ...
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Posted on Friday, June 7, 2013 by Paul Simms — No comments
In recent years, the way employers and jobseekers communicate has been noticeably altered by the rise of the Internet, and in particular the rising popularity of ‘Social Media’ websites. This change in communication has also had an effect on the recruitment process as a whole. Historically, the process of finding candidates who meet the qualification, experience and cultural fit requirements of ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Careers in audit advisory receive high demand these days, mainly due to the growing importance of having access to accurate business advice that can help improve a company’s chances of surviving financial turmoil. Due to this, if you are considering a job in finance, audit advisory is an excellent choice. There are many reasons behind this, and these include all the benefits that those working as ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The past financial crisis that many economies all over the world experienced prompted a renewed interest in the role and importance of auditing. The future of auditing will therefore be closely tied to the continuous ripples of effects that the world is still experiencing due to the financial crisis. However, it is to be expected that this industry would continue to grow in prevalence in the ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
IT audit careers in Europe are on the rise again, especially in the key European cities such as London , Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. It is true that the job outlook in Europe went quite sour in 2008, and this trend continued until 2010. In 2011, however, the situation started to pick up again. According to a 2011 news article published by CNBC, there were some signs of an improving market ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
The Asia Pacific is currently one of the most exciting regions in which to work. The thriving business market and the onslaught of technology in the key APAC countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia create a highly dynamic and overflowing pot of employment opportunities in the region. According to reports, the job outlook in the Asia Pacific region is quite reasonable despite ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Information security jobs are those that involve protecting information and information systems. In recent years, with the Internet playing a larger role, the need to secure information, especially online, has become much more important. Thus, there is now a greater need for professionals who are highly experienced in network security auditing and digital forensics, all of which are information ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by CareersinAudit — No comments
If you are looking for finance and accounting jobs, and you want to try other options, you may want to look into forensic and fraud jobs . These are just two types of jobs that fall under the category of accounting and auditing. By knowing more about forensic and fraud jobs, you will be able to take advantage of job openings in both positions, which you may consider as a long-term career or as a ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 by Lawrence Arbus for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As you read this article, a new draft code for those involved in internal audit for the financial services sector is being drawn up by the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). 1 When finalised, the code will provide UK financial services sector-specific guidance for the first time and will set a benchmark against which boards and regulators can assess the effectiveness of internal ...
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Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Manoj Kulwal for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Sometimes it helps to view a topic from an opposite perspective. So while there are many blogs, articles and consultants who are sharing best practices on how to enhance the risk management program in your organisation, let me take a contrarian view. Here are the 7 things you can do to ensure that your organisation fails in its risk management efforts: 1. Do not connect risks with business ...
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013 by Stephen Jackson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The mounting pressures on modern business are leading many organisations to improve their risk management and compliance functions. This new emphasis on more formalised and integrated governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) effort has led many audit professionals to ask: What are established criteria against which I can audit a GRC capability? What specialised skills or certifications ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The increasing importance of reliable financial information and advice has made audit, assurance and advisory services highly significant for businesses. Audit advisory jobs are some of the most promising job opportunities on the market these days. The Role and Contribution of an Audit Advisory Professional An audit advisor or an audit expert hired to conduct advisory services is expected to ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The path to enjoying a career in audit begins with securing your first job in the industry. This may be a long and difficult process, but in the end usually proves to be genuinely rewarding, especially for those who are truly passionate about audit. The desire to spend one’s life immersed in audit usually develops over time. There are two ways to secure your first job in audit . You can either ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Assurance professionals are responsible for ensuring that products and services provided by a company are up to par in terms of quality with the standards that the company promised or is attempting to uphold. Assurance jobs are very common as they are required in most industries and companies. If you are pursuing a career in assurance, you will have a wide range of job opportunities to choose ...
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Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Six in ten accountants in the Asia Pacific region will be looking for a new job over the next 6-12 months, with more than a quarter (27%) immediately looking to move. According to the research by global job board CareersinAudit.com, nearly half of the accountants on the move are looking to work abroad (43%), whilst others (13%) are looking for better pay and a promotion, are not happy with the ...
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Posted on Thursday, July 5, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the scene Back in 2009, we were in the grips of a global recession; a recession where even the ‘safe’ accountancy profession was not immune from redundancies and forced four day weeks. Those that should have been promoted, were not. Those that hoped for a pay rise had to be content with a pay freeze. Hiring freezes also meant many auditors, who in normal circumstances would have looked ...
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Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
More than half of all accountants in the Asia-Pacific region (53%) have admitted that an increase in working hours has had a detrimental effect on their health with stress1, low energy, significant weight gain/loss and insomnia all ranking high according to the latest survey conducted by CareersinAudit.com2. Nine in ten of all accountants are working in excess of a 40 hour week, with nearly half ...
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Posted on Monday, July 2, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
One in two Audit & Risk professionals have admitted that an increase in working hours has had a detrimental effect on their health with stress, low energy, and insomnia all ranking high according to the latest survey conducted by CareersinAudit.com . Yet 40% believe their company has offered no support during their period of ill-health, with a further 24% too scared to tell their company, as they ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As an auditor in Australia or New Zealand, there are a lot of great career opportunities waiting for you in your home country. There are a wealth of highly successful and promising companies in both companies, giving auditors little reason to seek greener pastures abroad . Before you consider job posts in other countries , you should check out the career opportunities in your own country first. ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you are just looking for experience or pursuing a long-term career in audit, it is difficult to make the decision whether to stay in Australasia or to move abroad. Comparing the pros and cons is a good way of helping you make this decision. To Stay: The Pros Undeniably, Australia and New Zealand are both overflowing with working opportunities in 2012. Those seeking to get started in audit ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re looking to become an auditor , it is important for you to know which companies hold the best career prospects for you. If you’ve been in the audit business for some time now, it helps to be reminded of the big companies that you should target for the year 2012. The Big4 Undeniably, some of the best companies for auditors in 2012 are the Big4 accountancy firms. The nickname Big4 is given ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The specific tasks and responsibilities of an employee in any position may differ from one company to the next, but there are certain positions that have a general scope of duties. One of these is the compliance specialist job position. A compliance specialist is a member of a company’s administrative department and is considered as a mid-level employee reporting to higher management but also ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
2012 is looking to be a good year for finance professionals. Statistics show that the increase in the hiring activity for auditors that has been observed for the past few years is still applicable now. It was also found that the most highly demanded accounting job for the year is in internal audit . Which Sectors Are the Best for Audit Candidates? So where should budding auditors set their sights ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you’re about to jump start your career in audit , having tips to guide you along the way can spell the difference between landing the right job and staying unemployed. Your decision to get into audit is a good one, especially if you’re willing to put in the hours and the hard work to gain accomplishments in this industry. The auditing field is challenging but can be very rewarding and holds ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The role of a risk management officer or a risk manager is important in every company. Every company needs to be able to manage risk properly; the way that risk is handled internally affects the overall cost that the company has to spend for insurance. This task falls upon the shoulders of a risk manager . Work Experience A risk management post is not an entry-level job and normally requires work ...
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Posted on Friday, June 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you an accounting graduate fresh out of university and looking for a job in audit ? Despite the grim economic outlook, there are still plenty of ways to get your foot in the door and start your dream career in risk management . Whether you’re looking to specialise in quality assurance, internal auditing , external auditing or any other type of compliance jobs , the below are five great pieces ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you an experienced business auditor ? Do you work in a quality assurance job? Or perhaps you are just starting out in your new junior auditor role? No matter what careers in quality assurance you may decide to pursue in your lifetime, this article lists the top factors which are essential to succeeding as an audit and compliance professional: Impressive organisation skills: Audit managers are ...
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Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you’re an external or internal auditor, compliance professional or perhaps even just starting out as a fresh faced graduate in your new audit career, there comes a time in every person's life where they must face their annual performance review. A strong performance review can enhance your job security and boost your chances of scoring that sought-after internal audit manager role you’ve ...
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Posted on Monday, April 30, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
From senior quality assurance positions to auditors just starting out in their graduate careers, the auditing Holy Grail is usually the same – to excel & make partner at the pinnacle of their professional life. Only around 2% of all accounting professionals will ever make it to partner. For senior audit managers , the taste of partnership seems so close that they can almost touch it! You could be ...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is the man/woman ratio level in the audit industry? 8th March marked international women’s day, an annual anniversary first observed in the USA on February 23rd 1909 labelled ‘National Women’s day’. The day was quickly succeeded by an annual international recognition which is now widely celebrated as a mark of women's economic, political and social achievements in the modern world. With over 100 ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you’re an internal auditor , external auditor or another type of risk or compliance professional , there will likely come a time in your career when you may consider making the move from the public sector into a private sector auditing role. In this article we discuss the difference between public and private, and how you can begin the transition into the Australian or New Zealand private ...
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Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
There might be more competition than ever thanks to high unemployment rates, but there are still plenty of great finance and auditing jobs available in the UK, albeit with lots and lots of eager applicants vying for a position. What some people don’t realise is that there are great jobs in finance to be found all over the UK, not just in the capital. There are several cities which have their own ...
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Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With unemployment and competition for jobs at an all-time high in the UK, many people working in auditing are considering an overseas job move. Proving your worth in an international environment is a skill which is unlikely to be overlooked by recruiters. Working abroad demonstrates a range of desirable attributes including flexibility, mobility, cultural awareness and willingness to immerse ...
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Posted on Friday, March 9, 2012 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Within the Australian banking industry, the term ‘Big Four’ refers to Australian banks NAB, Commonwealth, Westpac and ANZ; who between them hold 85% of the wealth in the country and are among the biggest, most profitable businesses around the world. With the advent of modern technology, applying for roles within the audit , risk , compliance & assurance divisions of these companies is not as ...
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Posted on Monday, December 19, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Interview with Jean Yves Le Corre, Consultant and Trainer specialised in cross-cultural auditing based in Shanghai, about his recent training experience in Ho Chi Minh City running the seminar: "Effective Governance, Internal Control and Auditing in Vietnam" in association with Peligo Training and Vietvalues. What are the cultural challenges faced by internal auditors in Vietnam? Peligo Training: ...
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Posted on Monday, December 19, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is the global body for professional accountants and was founded in 1904. Chartered Certified Accountant qualifications are available through the organisation which has over 147, 000 members and 424, 000 students in 170 countries around the world. ACCA works through 83 offices worldwide with the headquarters located in London. They have over eight ...
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 by CareersinAudit — No comments
A thriving financial centre with international recognition, 11.6% of Singapore’s gross domestic product in 2003 came from financial services. It’s the highest value-added service industry in Singapore, and many of the world’s top finance professionals choose to work in the country. This highly regarded status as a financial hub is a great reason to look for Finance & Audit Jobs in Singapore . It ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Like me, you've probably noticed how hard governments and regulators around the world are working to assure us that their reforms to the banking system will protect us against the type of wide scale corporate failure that pushed us into this long recession. It is also possible that, like me, you doubt that they will succeed. That is not to say that the reforms they are currently proposing won't ...
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Posted on Monday, October 10, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The 2011 annual CareersinAudit.com survey investigated what influenced audit and accountancy professionals across the world to change jobs and we asked for your views on various elements that lead to the decision to relocate: Is improved training more important than increased salary when looking for a new job? How many audit & accountancy professionals are looking to move abroad for work? What ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The 2011 annual CareersinAudit.com survey investigated the main reasons why audit and accountancy professionals across the world change jobs and we asked for your opinion on various factors leading to the decision to relocate: - Is improved training more important than increased salary when looking for a new job? - How many professionals are now looking to move abroad for work? - What can we do ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With many people becoming fed up with the economic situation and lack of work within the UK, more and more are choosing to look further afield in their audit job searches. The Middle East continues to be a popular choice for many UK residents looking to find work abroad as they are enticed by the regions beautiful weather and extraordinary scenery as well as perhaps its biggest incentive, the ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the last interview from our article series ‘Internal Auditing in China’, we highlighted the many obstacles which impact the practice of internal auditing and the need for ‘localising’ i.e. adapting the internal audit practice so as to make it really effective in China. Which exact role does coaching play in this ‘localization’ process? Interview with Jean Yves Le Corre, internal audit ...
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Posted on Monday, March 28, 2011 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is it just an impression, or do most blues numbers really begin ‘Woke up this morning’? For many in the world of work, waking up is already a bad start to a demoralising day spent in modern-age dark satanic mills. In the world of audit, on the other hand, we auditors are typically, a purposeful, up-tempo breed, and our working conditions generally mean we have every reason to be so: we certainly ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As a fresh-faced young accountant there are many career paths open to you. How do you want your professional career to develop? And how do you expect to be able to make those ambitions a reality? The first few years after qualification often have a marked impact on the duration of a career. Wasting your twenties can mean having to start again in your 30s, to compensate for mistakes and missed ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Road to Recovery - Survey Results Our ‘Road to Recovery’ research indicates that many accountants are actively looking for new jobs as the economy re-emerges from the depths of recession. Bosses of accountancy firms and financial departments should beware, as this new breed of financial professional are unwilling to put their career plans on hold waiting for pay and promotions. We surveyed ...
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Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Carol McLachlan is the Audit Agony Aunt, a fully qualified accountant and ex-Director of Resources for Ernst & Young for 18 years. In this column, Carol answers your career questions. If you have any careers, skills development or promotion questions, please send them to Carol , who will endeavour to answer them. There may be the odd occasion that Carol cannot answer due high demand for her time, ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Conducting Effective Risk-based Internal Audits in China: The challenge of localizing the internal audit practice in different cultures CareersinAudit.com: How far do corporate culture and values explain the differences between the international practice of internal auditing and the local practice in Mainland China? Jean-Yves Le Corre (InterauditAsia): There is quite a large gap indeed which ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
So what will 2011 bring - a slow, agonising climb out of global recession? Growth in job opportunities? Maybe, but don’t even think of a jobs boom; at best, recovery will be uneven, with some areas still shedding. So it won’t be the phoenix soaring from the ashes, more the Creature floundering from the Black Lagoon. It’ll be slow and painful, but at least it’ll be forward-looking and focused on ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In today’s business world, few multinational companies would appoint a financial head who didn’t already have experience in an international environment. Undertaking work abroad demonstrates flexibility, mobility and cultural acumen, which are all qualities which recruiters and headhunters will look for when looking to fill senior roles. Working outside your home country can be daunting and ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For those who are absolute beginners to the IT auditing process, it’s important to know the individual steps of the process and how the aims of the process can be achieved. As an IT auditor , we must first understand the business. Even if a company cannot see how their business model might not be connected through their IT infrastructure, in many ways it is. Two companies might sell the same ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Like all of us with internal audit jobs you were at your desk at 8am this morning ready to take on the day. All of a sudden it's noon and you’ve only ticked off two things from today’s ‘to do’ list... what happened? Thanks to the stream of regular interruptions, telephone calls, and emails you have only had a few minutes to work on critical tasks. Everyone wants your time. People are interrupting ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Where can the best long-term auditing career prospects be found? Many young auditors look to Sydney , the Australian global financial centre where large salaries can often be found. But thanks to recent economic conditions there could be some much better destinations to start out on a long career in auditing. A white paper published by European think-tank Bruegel could be more informative. Titled ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Knowledge of the procedures that an internal auditor goes through and understanding why audits are carried out will make it much easier to start a career in audit. Why do organisations Audit? An alarming amount of companies waste money unnecessarily, whether this is because of issues that they were ignorant of or other problems that they are unsure of how to deal with. An auditor goes through a ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Grabbing Audit Recruiters Attention With A Fine CV With just sixty seconds to make an impact, how can you ensure your CV will grab a reader’s attention? A good CV is the best way to get ahead, and ensuring that it contains all the buzzwords that the recruiter is interested in can sometimes be more important than your skills, qualifications or experience. Terms like “transferable skillset” are ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Finding a job can be a stressful time, updating CVs , writing covering letters and attending interviews, but sometimes job come as a result of other situations, and this is where the audit elevator pitch comes in. How many times have you been asked by a stranger or loose acquaintance what you did for a living? Perhaps next time you are asked this question you should consider the possibility of ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Imagine a freezing cold office, it was day and now it’s night and you’re still at work with a deadline to keep and not enough time or manpower to finish it. Without an audit manager you’d have no chance! That’s how I used to picture my audit manager on those freezing cold nights with those deadlines looming. They would appear at my side like magic and quickly delegate the resources to the right ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Even in today's struggling economy the audit industry is thriving and many people are considering a career change into the audit sector . However a complete career change is a big decision and as with any major life change there are certain considerations that need to be made. Firstly, it is important to have a clear idea of what an IT audit is and what is required from and IT auditor. When ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
If you’ve been blessed with purely tranquil waters in your audit career, then good on you! But if, like the rest of the population, you navigate through the turbulent waters of complicated people, delicate relationships or outright conflict, this article is for you. Conflict manifests in all shapes and sizes and many different guises: Disagreement on policy and procedure: what and how, and by ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Communication skills matter a great deal in the sector of audit jobs . It is key to all our auditing activities and efficient communication. It will help aspects such as team supervision; Top quality interpersonal and influencing skills to help build the best team possible ; good listening to build rapport with your team as well as clients; excellent oral and written communication skills among ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
‘Coaching is the Universal language of change and learning’, Training and personal coaching are increasingly popular tools that are utilised by companies for supporting the personal development of their staff. Research published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) discovered a respectable 90% of organisations use coaching in some shape or form. Over 500 companies were ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Internal auditing jobs used to have a rather dull reputation but nowadays there are some exciting and challenging roles out there for those with the right experience and qualifications. The internal auditors you meet nowadays are far more upbeat and enthusiastic about their roles- and with good reason. Their salary and status are increasing in line with a growing awareness that their work is ...
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Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by CareersinAudit — No comments
Accountancy is a career which can offer a passport to work almost anywhere in the world, with accreditation and qualifications being the best way to ensure acceptance. Globalisation has meant that accountants and auditors now do their work in many different markets around the world, with employers increasingly looking to recruit for audit jobs overseas . While the global economy might have seen ...
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Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Regular readers of CareersinAudit.com , will, by now, be fully familiar with my habitual call for your own personal definition of ‘success’. But did I ever tell you how to actually do it? This article will take you deeper into the meaning of personal success. What it means for you, in your career, and in your life. And I’ll introduce you to a set of principles that can truly take you there.... ...
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Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The world of work is changing, has changed and will go on changing. You’ve heard me say this before. But what about you? Are you changing? How equipped are you to meet, full-on, the challenges, opportunities, trials and tribulations of the twenty first century career marketplace? If there is one absolute fundamental in your career toolkit right now, it has to be Your Personal Career ...
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Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many of you will despair at the idea of writing a covering letter, especially after having written hundreds of them throughout your audit career. Although they may feel like the bane of your life, they are in fact the key to getting your CV read . Grabbing the reader’s attention with your covering letter for internal and external audit jobs is vital as it will show the reader your understanding ...
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Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In psychological terms creating a rapport means to create an intense harmonious accord with another person. In essence it is the ability to make someone feel an emotional affinity with you, to feel at ease. To be able do this in your audit interview can considerably raise your chances of being offered your dream internal or external auditing job. After putting effort into writing your covering ...
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Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2010 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The first thing your potential employer will see of you is your CV, either through a recruiter or directly. The presentation of it can have a huge impact on whether your CV is even read. Once you have written an alluring covering letter you will need to create a successful CV and you should consider what you put in it carefully. This can be the difference between getting your CV read or not . ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Our ‘Road to Recovery’ research indicates that many accountants are actively looking for new jobs as the economy re-emerges from the depths of recession. Bosses of accountancy firms and financial departments should beware, as this new breed of financial professional are unwilling to put their career plans on hold waiting for pay and promotions. We surveyed over six hundred accountants and over ...
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Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You were at your desk at 8am this morning. Thanks to the steady march of horribly familiar interruptions, you’ve ticked off only 3 things from today’s ‘to do’ list. Not to mention the telephone. Everyone wants a piece of you: your professional judgement, your time, the odd social catch up and those relentless beyond-your-control deadlines. As for the emails - thirty, today, so far - most will be ...
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Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Perfect Pitch – Elevator Style! Last year’s family holiday took Joe to New York. Seven days in the Big Apple with wife and kids – Empire State, Central Park, Time Square in the bag, Joe took a little time out to visit an old pal from college days. Riding the elevator up to the 65th floor, Joe caught the eye of the guy next to him and the two exchanged pleasantries - as you do. In the sixty ...
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Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Discovering your Unique Selling Proposition - How to Build Your Brand as an Auditor Look around you. What do you see? Your Dell PC, your Nokia phone, your iPod, your Starbucks coffee, Google – and that’s just what’s on your desk. Brands, brands, more brands. Work, rest or play, brands are ubiquitous: Nike, BMW, Microsoft, Armani, Visa, the BBC, Marks & Spencer, Coca Cola, BP, PwC, Guinness. Need ...
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Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION CALL FOR NEW MEASURES TO ATTRACT GRADUATES BIG 4 APPEAL: PWC and KPMG top of league but nearly two thirds want in-house positions Nearly half of the today’s accountants (44%) do not believe enough is being done to attract graduates to the profession or to study accountancy , according to latest research conducted by CareersinAudit.com . The research “Future of Accountancy” ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Jon couldn’t believe his luck. At the tender age of 25, one year post qualification, he’d been awarded his first managerial promotion. From newly qualified senior to manager, it was just short of twelve months since that precious piece of paper had burst through the letter box – his ticket to ride – up, up and away. Jon’s Principal was re-assuring but realistic: ‘Your technical skills are first ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Disputes and Deadlocks: the auditor’s guide to conflict resolution If you’ve managed to navigate purely tranquil waters in your career, then bon voyage! But if, like the rest of us, you steer through the turbulent rivers of difficult people, delicate relationships or out-and-out conflict, read on. Conflict comes in all shapes and sizes and many different guises And here are just a few: 1. Type of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Looking forward to some leisure time this evening? Why not? It’s been another long day. You may not have got through your ‘to do’ list but you sorted that last minute hiccup and finalised the report in the nick of time. Home for a late supper - you settle down with your significant other and a choice pinot noir. It’s time to unwind. Then there’s a rumbling in your pocket. Your significant other ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
‘You put better things into your time, you get better things’. That’s where we were last month, exploring the foundation of time leverage, the importance of effectiveness over efficiency. I have known many auditors who are very efficient, they are really good at clearing their inbox and returning their phone calls on time; they're on top of that, but being efficient is not necessarily being ...
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Posted on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Blended Living™: Your guide to Work Life Balancing in the 21st Century Picture this. A life of resolved conflicts. Time to do anything, and everything. Satisfied stakeholders: boss, reports, partner, friends and family. Exquisitely balanced to your own personal prescription. Seamless, congruent, harmonious. An impossible dream? Not for much longer. Don’t let your job in audit get you down! Let me ...
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Posted on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
"Coaching brings more humanity into the workplace", Myles Downey Coaching is an increasingly popular tool for supporting personal development. Research recently published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has found that a whopping 90% of organisations now use coaching in some shape or form. Of the 500 companies surveyed, over half (51%) consider coaching a key part of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
New Year Resolutions: Revitalised! Christmas decorations in August? Summer holiday bookings in January? Planning the winter ski in temperatures of 30°C? It might feel a tad unseasonable but it’s really never too early for New Year resolutions. Why? Well think about it? How well did you fare last year? Twixtmas mutterings: ‘it’s all going to be different next year’. New Year’s Eve public ...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is highly unlikely in today’s environment that any multinational would appoint a head of finance who hadn’t proved their worth in an international environment. Far from being a busman's holiday, appointments abroad demonstrates mobility, flexibility and cultural awareness: qualities that headhunters and employers alike prioritise when making senior appointments . However, taking an assignment ...
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Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When you’re hunting for accountancy audit jobs , you have approximately ten seconds to make a first impression. That’s about how long the average HR recruiter will look at your CV unless something on it catches their attention. In order to make it onto the interview list, you need a CV that will command attention for you in the first ten seconds. If you want a CV that will land in the contact ...
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Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What exactly is Time Management? Why is it that no matter how hard we work there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done? If I could wave my magic wand and quite simply grant you that oft coveted ‘extra hour in the day’, would that be the answer to all your woes? Commonly defined as “the management and organisation of time in order to make the most out of it”, Time Management is ...
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Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Work is becoming increasingly pressurised because of the recession, and many of us are working longer hours than ever. Many of us have lost our work-life balance but are worried about not putting in the hours and losing our job as a result. But how much extra work is really expected of us, or are we suffering from presenteeism, which is sadly rife within the audit profession ? Presenteeism - the ...
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Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
By understanding the process that that an auditor goes through and why audits are carried out it is much easier to get the perfect job. Why Audit? Money Wastage – Believe it or not the vast majority of companies are wasting money needlessly, either because of problems they were unaware of or unsure how to deal with. The detailed process which an auditor goes through is able to uncover these ...
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Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Picture this... freezing cold weather, a crazy deadline to keep, lack of time, staff and sleep. No audit manager? We’d be beat! What’s it like to be a hero? I know that’s how I used to think of my audit manager in the depths of winter, on the darkest, bleakest, tightest of audits. Much like a super hero, he or she would swoop down, magically marshal the right resources into the right places, ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Adnane 23, talks to Careersinaudit.com about getting his first job in Audit and how he is settling into his first role as Associate Auditor for Johnson Controls in Belgium. When did you decide to pursue a career in Audit? I studied a degree in Business and Business Administration in the Netherlands which gave me a broad background in business but I really wanted to have some specific knowledge of ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
1. Check the Main Recruiters Before you even start your job search, you should have a look at who the big players in the audit recruitment business are. Have a look at their websites, and get to grips with the terminology of recruiters: track record, cover letter... That way, you can start getting into the jobseeker frame of mind and talk to audit employers on their level. Remember that even ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What is Internal Audit? The role of an internal auditor is to carry out an independent appraisal of how a company works, their processes and the risk that may affect the business. Typically those carrying out the internal audit work across all business functions to gain a complete and comprehensive overview of the company. The basic functions in an internal audit job can be broken down in the ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Do you have what it takes to land the best audit job with the best firm? Take a look at the list below and see how well you fit the profile that employers are seeking when filling an audit job. Desire To Collaborate In A Team Environment Auditors need to be ‘people people’. Employers will expect you to get on well with others in the firm and to contribute to the success of the firm, not just do ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
What is IT Audit? If you are new to IT auditing it’s important to understand how the process works, what its aims are and how they are achieved. For an IT auditor they must firstly understand the business. While a company’s business model might not at first seem connected to their computer network, in many ways it is. How they run their business should be reflected in their IT provision. Two ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In order to attract the best and brightest of those newly qualified to take audit positions – both internal and external – companies are going to have to come up with more money. A major survey of HR professionals at the Big Four firms and recruitment firms states that salaries for entry level audit jobs will increase up to 25% over the next two to three years. All this has taken positions in ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Calum Robson — No comments
Professional accounting qualifications have long been regarded as a passport to a world of career opportunities - and never more so than today. Globalisation has seen a massive increase in the mobile workforce, with accountants plying their trade in emerging and established markets around the world. Many employers experiencing difficulty attracting home-grown finance talent are undertaking ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Russia , Greece , France , the Middle East , Eastern Europe , the Cayman Islands and Spain . If you would like to know more about ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The fields of corporate governance, internal audit jobs , accountancy positions and IT audit jobs still offer excellent career opportunities and given the increasingly international face of the corporate world means that there are audit jobs available almost anywhere in the UK and throughout Europe , though some areas offer more opportunities than others. Depending on the type of work that you’re ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The demand for those to fill external audit jobs continues to stay high as companies try to comply with SOX. One of the best places to be looking for external audit jobs these days is in public service. In fact, the government is hiring in all areas of finance, including internal and external audit jobs, risk management jobs , account management jobs, all the way down to payroll officers and ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When talking about IT auditor jobs let’s not get confused about the word ‘audit’, which is generally used when talking about delving into the finances of a company. An IT audit is not wholly dissimilar, nor is it similar to a financial audit, although the IT audit may take place in conjunction with other audits for the company in order to get an overall internal operations look at the business. ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In January 2007, newly qualified chartered accountant Gavin Smith, 24, swapped his life as an Auditor at KPMG on the Sunshine Coast (Australia) for the tube, grey climes of London and a brand new role as Financial Controller at First Merchant Capital. We caught up with Gavin to find out how everything is faring a few months on… Before you arrived in London, what were you doing? I was an auditor ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Berlin Beckons for Barbara Barbara Bolya is a 26 year old auditor from Hungary who is currently working at MOL, a Hungarian oil company, in the Hungarian capital city, Budapest. But she’s heading west to Berlin to start a new career. And start a whole new life. Which company have you got a new job with? The position in Berlin will be with Bombardier [a transportation manufacturer]. I’ve been ...
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Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Performance Excellence. It’s not rocket science. I was all set to open this article with a definition, but the words ‘over egging’ and ‘pudding’ swiftly came to mind! And anyway it’s been described countless times by many a mortal, loftier than I. In the words of John W Gardner, politician, writer and leadership expert: ‘Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well’ Which echoed ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Russia , Greece , France , the Middle East , Eastern Europe , Spain and Australia . If you would like to know more about working in ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Russia , Greece , the Middle East , Eastern Europe , the Cayman Islands , Spain and Australia . If you would like to know more about ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Max Williamson's top tips for auditors. It’s not just the pundits who were expecting a recession this year. Research from CareersinAudit.com back in January revealed that over 40% of British accountants believed a recession would hit the UK the some time in 2008. Many of those were worried about an unwelcome deceleration in career development, and others about redundancy. While such events have ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Heard the one about the frog? The frog which, when dropped into boiling water, will leap to safety, but boiled up from ambient, will simply cook. A metaphor I’ve rolled out many a-time to warn accountants and auditors of the perils of insidious pressure. But taking the metaphor one step further, let’s have a look at what happens when the water in that proverbial pan cools down. Its one thing to ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 by Carol McLachlan — No comments
Meet The ‘A’ Team! The venerable Audit Team. Ahhh I remember it well. From runner to senior manager , those halcyon days of being part of a congenial self-contained unit, snug in the bosom of a second family. A veritable home from home. And as a Big 4 Resource Director, I went on to create ‘designer teams’, tailor made for the job, aligning conflicting objectives, negotiating to get the best ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Russia , Greece , France , the Middle East , Eastern Europe , the Cayman Islands and Australia . If you would like to know more about ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Russia , Greece , France , the Middle East , the Cayman Islands , Spain and Australia . If you would like to know more about working ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
WORKPLACE RIVALRY MOUNTS IN ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION OVER FEAR OF JOB CUTS Research shows fear factor has struck with pay cuts, sleep deprivation and stress. Workplace rivalry is mounting in the accountancy profession with seven in ten accountants (69%) admitting that colleagues have become increasingly more competitive in a bid to keep their jobs, according to a survey conducted by ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Greece , France , the Middle East , Eastern Europe , the Cayman Islands , Spain and Australia . If you would like to know more about ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Although the skills required to be a great auditor are very specific, there are a number of general tips which can help you excel in your career. Whether you are aiming to be a top internal or an external auditor, allow these tips to help you. 1. Don’t be too competitive If you’ve been in the job hunt market for a while you often end up getting quite competitive. Being confident and self assured ...
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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Below are our top 10 interview tips to ensure you land the job you want. 1. Check the Company Website A few minutes extra browsing the audit company’s website can be invaluable. Their news section might have an interesting recent event that you can drop into conversation that will show you’ve done your research. Maybe it’ll give you a bit better idea what the company does, so you can think about ...
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Posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Andra Nastasa, 26, previously working as an Internal Auditor at ArcelorMittal, found her new job as 'Financial Auditor - Senior' at Sara Lee Corporation, Barcelona through CareersinAudit. Here she talks to us about how her audit career has panned out so far... Tell us about your audit career to date? After graduating from Dunarea de Jos University, Galati in 2004 I was contacted by the Human ...
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Posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Auditor. Ace communicator. Super hero! ‘Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills; team supervision; strong presentational skills to influence and persuade; good listening to build rapport; maintenance of client relationships; frequent contact with senior management; excellent oral and written communication skills; team player; active listener and efficient communicator’. Who are these ...
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Posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Effective communication. The core competence for our profession. Listening, interrogating, understanding, translating, feeding back: whichever way you look at it, good two-way communication is critical for the auditor, and something which hopeful recruits should definitely look to improve if they are applying for audit jobs . So, let us now take this a step further and consider how we can hone ...
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Posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Under Pressure? Survive or thrive, you decide! It’s January. Tight deadlines, frenzied pace, long hours, short tempers. An uncertain economy, intensified competition - for jobs, promotion and, just about everything else. Undoubtedly, we’re under pressure. Love it or loathe it, it’s not easing up any time soon. Will you survive or thrive? Let’s find out.... What do frogs and auditors have in ...
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Posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Audits, Anniversaries and Assessments of Risk: Your Guide to Managing Multiple Projects It’s a fact of life. We have to do it. Like it or not managing multiple projects is inescapable; it’s a life skill not just a business skill. From student or junior trainee right up to manager , partner or parent, there will always be, at any one time, at least, one area of our work or life in general where we ...
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Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The competition for audit manager jobs is keener than it was a few months back. If you want a leg up on the other candidates when you’re on a job hunt, your best bet is to fine tune your experience and skills so that you offer the skills that hiring managers want. According to a survey of advertisements placed on CareersinAudit.com for audit manager jobs , these are the most sought-after skills ...
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Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 by Liz Fisher — No comments
Not sure what to do next in your auditing career or thinking of looking for a new audit job ? According to some, your 30s are the most productive years of your career. Liz Fisher continues her analysis of a career in accountancy, the opportunities and challenges. So, you have qualified as an accountant and have followed the rules for a successful start in your career – you haven’t switched ...
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Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 by Liz Fisher — No comments
Your 50s require as much planning as any other stage of your career, says Liz Fisher of Accountancy Magazine. Career planning doesn’t end once you hit 40. As we have seen, few accountants of any age can afford to take their eye of the ball when it comes to their career. Once you reach your 50s, with luck you will be exactly where you want to be and will be doing what you do. But you should never ...
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Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 by Liz Fisher — No comments
As Time Goes By Beginning of a series of features about what opportunities are available to accountants throughout their careers, Liz Fisher focuses on those in their 20s. You are in your 20s and newly qualified as a graduate junior auditor . Congratulations! But now what? Where do you want to be in 30 years time? And how are you going to make that happen? (If you are reading this rather than ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Here we provide a number of tips for getting a job in the National Audit Office and other public utility organisations. If you are looking for a career in auditing , you must firstly be aware of the entry requirements for a position with the National Audit Office (NAO). The annual audit recruitment drive is focused on bringing in new trainees who are qualified to take up a position in a major ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Preparing for an interview for an audit job is no different than preparing for any other job interview. If you keep in mind a few simple facts, you’ll be able to field any questions shot at you, and create a positive impression on those who’ll be making the hiring decisions for the jobs you’re seeking. 1. Consider your audience. When you step into an interview, you’re stepping out on stage and ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
CareersinAudit.com German Audit Manager has been working for a large US multinational FMCG company for the past two years and shares his experiences of finding his latest job. He also provides tips for auditors in their early careers. Where are you working currently? I am currently working at a large US Multinational (FMCG) in Switzerland and the 'Manager Corporate Audit' within IS, Global and ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A CareersinAudit.com Chinese auditor has recently completed her MBA at Reims Management School, France after working for PwC with a BA. She has now joined the Corporate Audit Team of a French listed industrial group in Paris. We caught up with her to ask her to give some tips and advice for other recent graduates. Where are you working now? I am now working In Paris for a French listed industrial ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Unlike some professions it’s not essential for you to take a pre-defined educational route via university to become an audit professional, however when choosing your degree it’s important that you bear in mind how your course will help you find a job. Show Numeric Skill It’s vital when choosing your degree that it features some kind of numerical skills, especially if you didn’t take A-level ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Internal auditors can often benefit from ethical guidelines. As they work directly for the company they are auditing they are not as removed from the company as an external auditor would be. There are a number of the professional bodies for internal auditors which have provided some clear advice and guidelines which gives an overview of what is and what isn’t ethical. Integrity Internal auditors ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As the global economy goes into meltdown, with governments, economists, and financiers predicting worse to come, the market for accountancy skills is changing. The experience and expertise in huge demand not that long ago is becoming less marketable in certain countries, while some accountants with knowledge of specific industries or disciplines are finding themselves highly prized by employers - ...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 by Sarah Perrin for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you working in the firm most likely to deliver career fulfilment? Sarah Perrin considers the relative merits and opportunities in the big, the medium and the small. The end of one year – and the start of a new one – is the traditional time for contemplating the future. As an audit professional, part of that contemplation could sensibly focus on the next stage of your career development . ...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The Life Evaluator Assessment, available for free exclusively on CareersinAudit.com , is just one of a number of professional and personal tools designed by Carol McLachlan (The Accountants Coach), to help you optimise not just your career, but your whole life! LIFE EVALUATOR ASSESSMENT The Life Evaluator Assessment works by ranking your current levels of success in each of the 8 key areas of ...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 by Sarah Perrin for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It can and should be very important, suggests Sarah Perrin. Have you ever taken home an extra box of pens or a packet of photocopy paper? Have you ever left work a bit early, but still charged a client? Have you called in sick when you were really just hung over? Have you falsified information – or bluntly speaking, lied – on your CV? Most of us will have committed at least one of these ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by Jonathan Hickstead for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In recent years, UK and European firms have scrambled to hire people to fill internal audit jobs , created in response to the passage of SOX in the US and other similar ethical and audit guidelines in other countries. That scramble had the effect of pushing the role of auditor into the ‘high demand’ category on the employment boards and among recruitment agencies . But it seems that those ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Resigning from an audit job , much like any job, can be a political nightmare, below we’ve compiled some top tips to help make the process as un-traumatic as possible. Be certain you want to leave It seems obvious advice but you’d be surprised how many people accept a job offer and hand in their resignation only to change their mind a few days later. Once you’ve resigned that should mean you’re ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is of course, illegal to discriminate when recruiting, but recent research shows that all is not as it should be. Max Williamson explains: Although one would assume, or at least hope, that discrimination had been largely forced out of the relatively refined worlds of finance and professional services, CareersinAudit.com received what can only be described as very disappointing responses to a ...
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Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
If you are working as an auditor it’s important that you regularly reflect on your job and work situation. Too many people fail to climb the career ladder by staying in one job too long. We’ve come up with eight common situations which should act as a cue to write your resignation letter. You've Outgrown Your Job It’s important when you commit to a job that you commit to stay there for a ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by Neil Baker for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Are you an amateur? With just sixty seconds to make an impact, how can you ensure your CV will grab a reader’s attention? Try showing them you’re not like every other professional auditor, writes Neil Baker To get ahead in the audit industry, you need to have a good CV. More than that, you need to have a CV that uses all the right buzzwords . What you have achieved can be less important than the ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by Sarah Perrin — No comments
Make sure you make the internet work for you, not against you, in your jobhunting, says Sarah Perrin. It’s impossible for most people to imagine life without the internet. How did we cope without it? Whether communicating with colleagues on the other side of the world or organising holidays, the internet has become the natural – even essential – tool to use. In recruitment too, the internet has ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Each country in Europe has its own accounting body and accounting qualification. CareersinAudit.com asked some of its candidates to summarise the qualification process in their home country. Belgium Title: Bedrijvsrevisor or Reviseur d’Entreprise Students must hold a university degree or equivalent foreign diploma and pass an initial trainee exam programme. Completion of a three year traineeship ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by Jonathan Hickstead — No comments
The interview process for audit jobs can be very competitive, and it’s often tempting to accept the first job you are offered. However, sometimes it’s worth taking the time to step back and have a good think about the decision. Re-read the Job Description If you were unhappy in your last job you might have found yourself applying for any job going or maybe you waited for the perfect job opening. ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by Max Williamson — No comments
Thousands of accountants qualifying each year must take care with their career prospects if they are considering leaving practice after successfully gaining the coveted “chartered” status, warns Max Williamson, CEO at audit recruitment website CareersinAudit.com . Many organisations are offering high salaries and exotic travel to lure newly-qualified chartered accountants, but job-seekers need to ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Bruce for CareerinAudit.com — No comments
There is a bit of an assumption that the same term means the same thing right around the accounting globe. But the more you look the more you discover that there are huge cultural differences. And these differences are not just stumbling blocks to any efforts at global harmonisation. They are also obstacles to the auditor making assumptions about the integrity of financial reporting across a ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Sarah Perrin for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether male or female, your career success depends on proving yourself worthy for promotion. Those who perceive glass ceilings or positive discrimination may only be harming themselves. Careers in Audit’s survey on this topic produced an intriguing result: nine out of ten male audit and accountancy professionals surveyed felt they had been adversely affected by attempts to create a more ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Bruce for CareerinAudit.com — No comments
If a young auditor were looking around the globe and wondering where the best long-term prospects were to be found what should they be looking at? Of, course they would be looking at London, now the fabled global financial centre where fine wine, large remuneration packages, and even sunshine abounds. But that could be short-term. As a journalist I know that if everyone is writing articles ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Carol McLachlan, theaccountantscoach, shares her unique mix of experience from the worlds of Big 4 audit and personal development. Say goodbye to career by default. It's time to embrace your Career by Design... You’re an auditor. Perhaps an accountant. You may be employed; you may be self employed. You could be between jobs or having a career break. Or you may be considering moving into, or out ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Neil Baker for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Internal auditing used to have a rather dreary reputation. It was a career cul-de-sac to be avoided at all costs, staffed by clipboard-wielding pedants, blessed with 20-20 hindsight, obsessed with telling people what they had done wrong. Thankfully, this is no longer the case. The internal auditors you meet nowadays are a more cheery bunch. Their pay and status are increasing in line with a ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Bruce for CareerinAudit.com — No comments
The greatest audit scandal of our generation may well be receding swiftly into the past. But every so often an anniversary comes along to remind us of what happened and to remind us of the lessons which we may, or may not, have learned. Small children blowing the candles out on their 5th birthday cakes recently will have been blissfully unaware that they shared a birthday with the biggest of the ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Neil Baker for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
As an enormously valuable finance professional, does your employer treat you with the love and care that you deserve? The sad answer is quite likely to be… no. But the good news is they might soon have to change. We’ve all heard the rhetoric about people being an organisation’s most important assets, but so often it’s just empty words. That’s as true for finance professionals as it is for ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Why do practices lose graduates? We look at how they can halt the outflow of talent. Graduates enter accountancy for many reasons. For some, it is a career that they have moved towards since choosing an accountancy related degree, while for others the move into the profession is a haphazard affair, triggered by a lack of any other uses for that degree in Classics. The popularity of accountancy ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here . We have so far covered Russia , Greece , France , Eastern Europe , the Cayman Islands , Spain and Australia . If you would like to know more about working ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Research by CareersinAudit.com shows a massive majority of accountants believe advancing years will do nothing to advance your career. A damning 79% of respondents said that age discrimination was an ugly professional reality, and 74% said they believed accountants had missed out on a promotion because of it. A whole batch of prejudices also raised their head, with gender (74%), disability (68%) ...