Title:  Specialist, Data & Systems Assurance

Location: Amman, Jordan

Job Type: Full-time

Hashtag: #LI-AA2

About Us

For over 45 years, Hikma Pharmaceuticals has been putting better health within reach, every day, by creating high-quality medicines and making them accessible to those who need them. We are helping to shape a healthier world that enriches all our communities, and our global team of 9,500+ empowered employees are central to this mission.

As a trusted and reliable partner of over 800 high-quality generics, specialty and branded pharmaceutical products, we are driven to improve access to medicine. Through our 29 manufacturing plants, 9 R&D centers across the MENA, North America and Europe, our footprint allows us to play a critical role in serving patients. 

Description:

We are looking for a talented Specialist, Data & Systems Assurance to join us. At Hikma you’ll be supported by a culture of progress and belonging where people are encouraged to develop, wellbeing is prioritised and our inclusive approach values contributions from all. We’re seeking candidates who embody our values: Innovative, driven to keep learning; Caring, genuinely compassionate in their work; and Collaborative, eager to solve problems together.

If you want to be part of a team that cares about impact, this is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on the Group’s assurance over finance relevant IT/ISs from ITGC and configuration perspectives; including performing risk assessments, scoping, testing processes and controls effectiveness in line with internal policies and external regulation
• Prepare assurance reports upon conclusion of testing and provide regular updates to management.
• Interpreting the financial audit impact of IT risks and control weaknesses and Integrating Data Analytics testing into an assurance approach
• Perform and review follow-up testing on prior internal audit and IC&A findings
• Lead the mitigation of SOD risks across the group through a GRC tool
• Assist with design of ITGCs and responding to design related queries
• Partner with stakeholders, business management, other control groups (i.e. risk management, compliance, IT GRC), external auditors, and regulators, establishing strong working relationships while maintaining independence
• Lead validation of newly implemented systems
• Assist the team’s utilization of AI, process mining and data analytics tools to aid IC&A assurance and governance objectives
• Assist management and colleagues with various IC&A tasks

Qualifications:

• We are looking for candidates whose experience and skills align closely with the qualifications outlined below:

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management information systems, accounting information systems or other closely related field
• Professional qualification is required: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Preferred:

• Advanced Degree/professional qualification in a business field (e.g. MBA, CPA, Masters etc)
• Further studies (Masters) in an IT field
• Data Analytics certification

Experience

Minimum:

• 4 or more years of IT and information system assurance over SAP and/or SAGE
• Developing high quality efficient data driven audit strategies to address audit risk in the most effective way
• Utilizing data analytics visualization to create interactive Dashboards for identifying and assessing risks at planning stage of assurance engagement/to aid sample selection to present findings.
• ITGC testing and advising mitigation of SOD risks through utilization of GRC tools
• Familiarity with continuous control monitoring

Preferred:

• Familiarity with internal controls/ICFR as well as IFRS/IAS/GAAP
• Familiarity with Sarbanes Oxley regulation (SOX)
• Providing assurance through re-performance using data analytics (Databricks, SQL, Python, VBA, R). Any other programming language will be beneficial
• Working in a big four firm; as part of FAIT/IT assurance function.
• Familiarity with COBIT/COSO/ISO
• Experience working with (as a client) or for (as a team member) of large listed companies (US & UK)

Skills

• Technically astute in information systems/ Information technology assurance
• Preparing working papers to a high standard
• Excellent communication skills, reporting to management
• Familiarity with SAP/SAGE
• Tenacity and Ethics
• Data analytics/ Data mining/ Continuous control monitoring

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