Today’s chief audit executives, their deputies, and internal audit managers need to work closely with business leaders, boards, audit committees, peers, and their own audit teams. Now more than ever, leadership, stakeholder relations, and influencing skills are becoming as important as managing a team, and planning and delivering insightful internal audit assurance and consulting engagements.
This conference focuses on the various challenges and opportunities internal audit leaders face and shows how to audit leaders can make a contribution at a strategic level, clearly adding value and also enhancing productivity in the audit process.
This clear, practical, and interactive conference will help participants improve their awareness and skills and help them become better internal audit leader who delivers impactful and insightful internal audit work that can make a strategic difference to their organization.
At the end of this conference, the participants will be able to:
Demonstrate greater confidence in dealing with senior leaders
Appraise what it really takes to be an effective internal audit leader
Explain how to make an effective and valuable contribution at a strategic level and toward overall business success
Apply practical methods to manage key relationships with the audit committee, senior management, and peers
Add value through efficient and effective internal audit good practices
Explain key priorities for them and their departments to help maximize their contribution to their organization
Chief audit executives
Deputy heads of audit
Internal audit managers and senior internal auditors who deal with business leaders and/or lead or manage members of the internal audit team.
Effective leadership
The importance of steady management
Qualities of an effective internal audit leader
A reminder of leadership and management theory
The inspirational internal audit leader
Large versus small internal audit teams
The mission statement and definition of internal auditing
Relevant attribute and performance standards
Challenges all internal audit leaders face
Resolving common challenges
Determining risk maturity
Designing the risk-based assurance universe
Developing an effective internal audit strategy
How do you develop your universe and strategy
Coordination with other assurance providers
Advantages and disadvantages of working with other assurance providers
Determining the annual or six-monthly internal audit plan
Delivering the plan
Discussion: Good practice planning
Internal audit delivery today and building team capability for tomorrow
Securing the necessary internal audit resources
Managing internal audit resources
Dealing with the dispersed team
Ensuring an effective internal audit engagement process
Maximizing efficiency
Managing co-sourcing and contractors
In-house versus outsourced contractors
Risk management in the internal audit function
Risk identification and management for internal audit
The world is packed with information; and most organizations struggle to recognize what information they have, why they need it, how long they need it for, and if it has any value. Furthermore, changes in the law, such as the recent changes in the UAE employment law, often call for tighter controls on contract documentation, and lead to a need for enhanced management of human resource and contract records. In addition, electronic information is under threat from cyber-attack and personal information is at risk of exposure. As such, the development and implementation of a records management program that includes document control methods to identify, secure, and protect critical information, is necessary for every organization.
The world is packed with information; and most organizations struggle to recognize what information they have, why they need it, how long they need it for, and if it has any value. Furthermore, changes in the law, such as the recent changes in the UAE employment law, often call for tighter controls on contract documentation, and lead to a need for enhanced management of human resource and contract records. In addition, electronic information is under threat from cyber-attack and personal information is at risk of exposure. As such, the development and implementation of a records management program that includes document control methods to identify, secure, and protect critical information, is necessary for every organization.
Organizations typically start using electronic document management systems to transform paper-based operations after reaching an internal tipping point in which customer response times become too slow, departments don’t have enough bandwidth to solve recurring process bottlenecks, paper archiving becomes too costly or large-scale regulatory risks are exposed during a data breach or compliance fines.
For organizations that have defined but resource-intensive business processes, EDMS is an ideal fit. Document management helps organizations across industries sidestep this busy work entirely by eliminating manual document maintenance, reclaiming valuable staff time, and boosting the bottom-line.
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The level of competition in current business environments requires a focus on practices that assist in the management of personal and workgroup tasks, priorities, and projects. All types of organizations need to find more productive means to offer their products and/or services, so goals are established and tasks assigned to better meet customer and stakeholder needs. A focus on the use of productive practices allows for effective and efficient management of project work, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines, and is an important part of customer service.
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