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INTERNAL AUDIT & CONTROLS | RECRUITMENT MARKET UPDATE 2024
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Key themes in internal
audit recruitment
Consistent demand for IT auditors
IT audit recruitment has remained comparatively
robust without being exceptional. There has been
steady demand for IT auditors, and securing talented
professionals is still a challenging proposition.
The landscape for IT auditors is constantly evolving
as technology permeates ever more functions of an
organisation and new technologies are introduced
at ever increasing rates. Over the past decade we
have noticed an increase in the sophistication of the
skills that IT auditors need as risks become ever more
complex, including Resilience, Cybersecurity, Data
Privacy Compliance, Cloud Security, IT Governance
and Emerging Technologies.
Analytics on the rise
Data analytics has been a topic within internal audit
for some time, but until recently, this chatter had
not created significant recruitment demand. This is
changing, and we are seeing more internal audit jobs
that specifically require data analytics skills.
Companies are now investing in analytics skills and
technologies, which has led to requirements for data
scientists to join internal audit teams. Once there, they
provide specialist skills in the processing and analysis
of large data sets and develop tools to support
internal auditor's interrogations. Python, Power BI,
SQL, Tableau, Excel and MATLAB are all skill sets that
are increasingly present in job descriptions for internal
auditors and related positions.
