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Soft skills for the Internal Auditor Malta Forum for Internal Auditors In collaboration with:

Soft skills are the new hard skills!

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Top 5 IA Skills sought by Global Recruiters

Analytical and critical thinking 72%

Business Acumen 43%

Risk management 49%

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Communicati on Skills 57%

Analyse skills needed & learning order IT general skills 49%

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Change, agility and flexibility

Times of Change • Require sudden shifts and a high degree of flexibility to switch priorities and projects

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A more global business world • Require agility to remain vigilantly informed about the latest global developments

A healthy balance between the assurance role and the consultative role

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Balancing integrity with relationship building

Push

Pull

Fight

Flight

formal

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The future in communication It is very difficult to predict the future. It’s difficult to even predict what will happen in the next year.

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The future in communication

Personalised!

Anytime!

Any Place! And on the Move! Soft skills for the Internal Auditor PwC’s Academy

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Managing the IA talent pipeline

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Moving forward… • The establishment of a compelling internal audit ‘brand’ that attracts top talent • Rigorous selection processes that identify a candidates' propensity to develop these valuable attributes • Training programs that target the skills within these attribute areas • Innovative development activities • Performance review programs that reward proficiency in specific noon-technical attributes Soft skills for the Internal Auditor PwC’s Academy

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7 Attributes of highly effective auditors

Integrity

Continuous learning

Analyse skills needed & Partnering learning order

Teamwork

Diversity

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Relationship Building

Communications

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Continuing from here….

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