Audit & Governance Careers Advice - February 2021

  • What Skills do you Need to Work in Compliance?

    Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2021 by CareersinAudit.comNo 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? ...

  • A Day in the Life of a Risk Manager

    Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2021 by CareersinAudit.comNo 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 ...

  • Getting a job in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning

    Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2021 by CareersinAudit.comNo 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’ ...

  • Getting Into Digital Forensics

    Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2021 by CareersinCyber.comNo 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 ...