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Four things you should know if you want to be successful within Digital Assurance
16/06/21
Assurance is a broad field that often intersects with other areas of the financial and non-financial world. To be successful in Digital Assurance, there are some facts and pieces of advice you should be familiar with to better advise and help your clients and team.
Take our four key facts to remember for being successful within Digital Assurance:
1. You’re the link between Finance and IT
In a digital world and to deliver innovative solutions, the two domains of Finance and IT are converging on more and more occasions and levels. When you are working in Digital Assurance, you are the link between Finance and IT, and your know-how in the technological domain is a valuable asset in your daily work.
You’ll be working as part of external audits next to deliver trust and advise services regarding systems and processes. You’ll learn to understand and test various technologies, business and IT processes and controls, deliver technology enabled audits and utilise the latest innovative tools in advanced data analytics, process control optimisation and automation.
2. Be ready for advanced data analytics
Within Digital Assurance you’ll work with advanced data analytics. During your work, you’ll develop a valuable skill set across business processes and data engineering. Building a foundational understanding of core concepts, such as accounting, financial reporting, risk, object-oriented programming, database management and application development, is key.
Having an analytical mindset and critical eye will help you come up with ways for our clients to reimagine the possible. You’ll talk with our clients and advise them on ways to automate and reimagine audits, implement innovative technologies, such as process intelligence and machine learning. Sounds interesting? Well, it definitely is!
3. Up to speed: emerging technologies
Technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and the internet of things are rapidly reshaping our world and evolving at breakneck speed. These are the topics everyone talks about and wants to know more.
In Digital Assurance you will have the possibility to review and attest new services and solutions powered by the latest technological advances. What better way to start a conversation than with emerging technologies and real examples of how you work with them?
4. ERP solutions and business processes
Want to dive deeper? You have the opportunity to specialise on individual ERP solutions such as SAP or Oracle to consult our clients on their business process efficiency, level of control automation as well as adequate system and process implementations.
The more you know about these solutions and processes the better you’ll be able to advise our clients and help your team in developing solutions to decrease process costs, improve customer service levels, decrease time cycles, realising benefits from process changes and defining responsibilities whilst reducing risk by incorporating the right controls.
With these four basic but key facts and tips you’ll find your way into successfully working in Digital Assurance with ease. Are you ready for the challenge?
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