Is IT Auditor a good job or horrendously boring?

[Phokus]

I'm currently an accountant and thinking of making a slight jump to IT auditing, how is it? Crappy or interesting?

 

[KLin]

How well do you know SOX?

 

[JS80]

If you don't want co-workers and be stuck in a closet doing checklists on excel, and get underpaid, it's the perfect job for you.

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: JS80
If you don't want co-workers and be stuck in a closet doing checklists on excel, and get underpaid, it's the perfect job for you.

? I was under the impression that IT auditors get paid quite well... Is it really that bad?

 

[FoBoT]

excel sucks, why don't they use calc? or maybe visicalc if they have a GUI

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: KLin
How well do you know SOX?

i know OF Sox ;P

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: KLin
How well do you know SOX?

i know OF Sox ;P

i bet if you were to google your brain it would respond with 404 not found.

 

[Platypus]

I was going to do it.. more risk assessment type work.. but the long hours, endless technical findings reports and being in a different state every other week just didn't appeal to me. One of my best friends does it for a pretty major firm and all he does is complain about writing reports that no one reads (clients have the same problems on next audit) anyway. His job satisfaction is quite low..

 

[ultimatebob]

It's boring, tedious work... But it does pay half decently.

 

[RichieZ]

you will learn to love the SOX, we have people who do that, i hate when they bring up SOX issues in the middle of a project and everything gets messed up

 

[Ns1]

I have a friend who does it for one of the big4 and enjoys it. I'm looking to enter that field myself.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: JS80
If you don't want co-workers and be stuck in a closet doing checklists on excel, and get underpaid, it's the perfect job for you.

? I was under the impression that IT auditors get paid quite well... Is it really that bad?

Dollars per hours worked is horrible. Plus it's REALLY REALLY BORING.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: JS80
If you don't want co-workers and be stuck in a closet doing checklists on excel, and get underpaid, it's the perfect job for you.

? I was under the impression that IT auditors get paid quite well... Is it really that bad?

Dollars per hours worked is horrible. Plus it's REALLY REALLY BORING.

that's quite debatable

if you're a staff, then yeah

friend as senior manager makes bank.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
It's boring, tedious work... But it does pay half decently.

True. And everybody hates IT auditors, so there's always that aspect.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Platypus
I was going to do it.. more risk assessment type work.. but the long hours, endless technical findings reports and being in a different state every other week just didn't appeal to me. One of my best friends does it for a pretty major firm and all he does is complain about writing reports that no one reads (clients have the same problems on next audit) anyway. His job satisfaction is quite low..

Yep. Those reports go directly to the trash.

 

[kstu]

I do it. I hate it. It just isn't for me, so take my words with a grain of salt. I find the work tedious and silly. The process of auditing is too formal and the end results are generally useless and require way too much formal writing of bullshit. People don't like dealing with you and they would rather you just leave them alone. It's not just SOX that sucks, it's the whole IT Audit process. The pay is ok, not great, but not terrible.

Some people seem to like it though, so your YMMV.

 

[vital]

Originally posted by: kstu
I do it. I hate it. It just isn't for me, so take my words with a grain of salt. I find the work tedious and silly. The process of auditing is too formal and the end results are generally useless and require way too much formal writing of bullshit. People don't like dealing with you and they would rather you just leave them alone. It's not just SOX that sucks, it's the whole IT Audit process. The pay is ok, not great, but not terrible.

Some people seem to like it though, so your YMMV.

OP, since you're in accounting why not be an internal auditor and go the financial auditing route?

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: vital

Originally posted by: kstu
I do it. I hate it. It just isn't for me, so take my words with a grain of salt. I find the work tedious and silly. The process of auditing is too formal and the end results are generally useless and require way too much formal writing of bullshit. People don't like dealing with you and they would rather you just leave them alone. It's not just SOX that sucks, it's the whole IT Audit process. The pay is ok, not great, but not terrible.

Some people seem to like it though, so your YMMV.

I'm an IT Auditor also. It pretty much sucks. Imagine yourself w/ 1 yr experience and telling these Engineers w/ 10+ years of experience what they can and cant do because of an internal control everyone needs to follow. You're being paid to be hated.

OP, since you're in accounting why not be an internal auditor and go the financial auditing route?

Well, i sorta know what goes into financial auditing... i didn't know what IT auditors did and i was interested in what they did... plus it seems IT auditors get paid better.