IT Auditor

Career Area: Information Technology

Occupation Group: Network and Systems Engineering

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical IT Auditor earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $94,273

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $92,393

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Monitors IT systems to ensure they follow policies and practices. Must evaluate technology, manage staff, identify controls, and keep records.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every IT Auditor is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Internal Auditing: Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization's operations.
• Audit Planning: Audit planning is a vital area of the audit primarily conducted at the beginning of audit process to ensure that appropriate attention is devoted to important areas, potential problems are promptly identified, work is completed expeditiously and work is properly coordinated.
• Information Systems: An information system (IS) is an organized system for the collection, organization, storage and communication of information.
• Information Security: Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information.
• Risk Assessment: Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative estimate of risk related to a well-defined situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard).

Distinguishing Skills

Any IT Auditor that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Auditing Standards: Working experience with compliance and adherence to set standards of systematic and independent examinations of books, accounts statutory records, documents and vouchers of an organization to ascertain how far the financial statements as well as non-financial disclosures present a true and fair view of a concern.
• IT Management: IT management is the discipline whereby all of the information technology resources of a firm are managed in accordance with its needs and priorities.
• PCI DSS: Working experience of PCI DSS, which is a security standard that has requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and more.
• Operational Auditing: Operational Audit is a systematic review of effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operation.
• Audit Program Development: Working experience of Audit Program Development. An audit program, also called an audit plan, is an action plan that documents what procedures an auditor will follow to validate that an organization is in conformance with compliance regulations.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• It Auditor
• Senior It Auditor
• It Audit Manager
• It Service Delivery Manager
• It Internal Auditor

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