Senior IT Governance Analyst will act as the central point for developing, maintaining, monitoring and enforcing IT policies and procedures. The role will review existing process alignment and compliance and ensure adoption of industry best practice ( COBIT 5). The role will participate actively in the activities of all IT Governance and IT strategy focus areas: Value Delivery, Performance Management, Risk Management, IT Planning, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture and Business Continuity. The role requires the ability to motivate and drive IT teams to understand the value of policies and adhere to procedures and process requirements.
Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:
Develop a plan and brief for IT Governance assessment as per COBIT 5 guidelines
Conduct overall IT governance assessment as per Cobit 5 guidelines
Conduct assessment for IT operations and identify process gaps and compliance gap.
Define IT operations GAP as per industry best practice
Define process and compliance GAPs from the assessment
Hold feedback sessions with the process owners.
Report on the gaps identified during assessment
Classify the GAPs based on relevance, risk and time (High, Mediam, Low)
Define high level roadmap of process definition and GAPs closure
Define high level roadmap of process definition, roles, skills and gaps closures.
Implementation of process GAPs closure
Report on GAP closure
Identify process that needs to be improved as per best practice
Hold stakeholder sessions to discuss the process improvement needs
Take actions to ensure the process is improved
Report on the progress of the process improvement
logging, tracking & solving issues within IT that need to be addressed besides the process
Governance and COBIT assessment. The issues may arise from different areas such as
Finance, Audit, compliance, process clarification, risk etc
Validate IT invoices & ensure that payments are aligned to business value and the right cost center and are within the contracted Amount. Timely processing of payments to avoid penalty as result of late payment, avoid double payment of expenses/ support invoice payment tracking: Update ad report as and when required update
Essential Knowledge
Strong knowledge of formulating IT Governance objectives and goals and developing effective techniques for deriving these objectives from IT initiatives.
Strong knowledge of IT industry standards and best practices as they relate to IT governance such as CGEIT, CoBiT 5 and CMMI.
Qualifications
Key Critical Competencies
Business awareness
Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills
Excellent planning skills
High personal standards and goal oriented
Excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing Key Soft Skills
Good effective communication skills
Organized, Proactive, and Results Driven
Problem solving tactics to projects and tasks assigned
End User Empathy & Understanding of Business Strategy
Adaptability to changing strategy and culture
Ability to Carry a Meeting and Make Decisions
Team Player & Great Attitude
Eagerness to Learn
Sixth Sense through intuition of issues and risk articulation
Knowledge Sharing and Mentoring
Requirements:
A University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, and/or related field.
Minimum 2 years of experience in Information Technology.
Analysis: Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions
Demonstrated ability to effectively balance multiple responsibilities which may frequently change
Ability to learn information quickly and apply risk/control considerations which impact downstream decisions
High degree of professionalism and personal integrity
Ability to work with a high degree of independence
Excellent documentation skills (process, control, policy, and risk documentation)
Able to record information accurately
Able to remain calm under pressure
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