IT Project Audit Consultant in Paris

Context: In an environment where practices, technologies, and risk management requirements are rapidly evolving, we are seeking an IT project auditor capable of supporting the security of high-stakes projects. You will provide an independent perspective on their governance, organization, compliance, and operational control. Through your analyses and recommendations, you will directly contribute to meeting objectives, budgets, deadlines, quality standards, and security requirements.Your role – Anticipate evolving user needs and technologies, then measure their impact on systems, budgets, and skills. – Evaluate the robustness of the organization, processes, and IT project management practices. – Identify risks that could affect quality, security, costs, deadlines, or the achievement of objectives. – Propose improvement measures that promote industrialization, overall quality, and resource optimization. – Contribute to meeting commitments and ensuring transparent governance. – Foster the sharing of knowledge, methods, and best practices.Your main responsibilities : Conducting IT project audits. You will be involved at various stages of the project lifecycle: scoping or launch, securing an ongoing project, milestone review, preparation for production deployment, or project closure. You will adapt your approach to the maturity level, challenges, and risks of each project. • Examine strategic and operational governance, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes. • Evaluate the management of scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, and risks. • Analyze project processes and activities: project management, design, development, testing, change management, deployment, and action tracking. • Verify the quality and traceability of deliverables: project plans, design documents, risk analyses, test cases and reports, procedures, user documentation, and closure documents. • Assess the consideration given to security, data protection, business continuity, compliance, and operability. • Verify the suitability of the methods, tools, skills and resources mobilized in relation to the objectives of the project.Prepare and conduct audit work • Conduct a preliminary assessment and define the scope, objectives, criteria, and approach of the audit. • Collect and analyze relevant documentation, then identify the stakeholders to be consulted. • Develop methodological tools: work program, risk matrix, interview guides, test sheets, intervention plan, and communication schedule. • Conduct interviews, investigations, substance tests, and document or on-site verifications. • Document findings, assess risks, and investigate root causes based on evidence. • Formulate prioritized, realistic, measurable recommendations with assigned responsibilities and deadlines. • Lead kick-off, working, debriefing, and follow-up meetings with the relevant entities and departments.Report your findings and follow up on recommendations • Draft scoping notes and work programs. • Develop risk and control matrices. • Prepare materials and formalize meeting minutes. • Produce observation reports with prioritized recommendations. • Draft provisional and final reports, as well as summaries for decision-makers. • Formalize action plans and, depending on the assigned scope, monitor the implementation of recommendations.The skills we are looking for: Your technical and methodological skills • Mastery of audit methods applied to the IT project lifecycle: scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and closure. • Mastery of predictive, agile, and hybrid project management approaches, including PMBOK, PRINCE2, Scrum, and SAFe. • Ability to assess project governance, roles and responsibilities, bodies, decision-making processes, and stakeholder involvement. • Ability to audit the project scoping, scope, planning, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, quality, and changes. • Ability to assess the consistency of functional and technical choices with the project's objectives, requirements, constraints, and acceptance criteria, without replacing technical experts. • Mastery of project deliverable review: scoping document, requirements specification, design documents, backlog, schedule, risk register, testing strategy, test reports, deployment documentation, and closure report. • Ability to maintain traceability of requirements, decisions, anomalies, actions, and validations throughout the project. • Proficiency in interviewing, sampling, testing, document analysis, evidence review, and findings documentation techniques. • Ability to analyze key performance indicators, cost and schedule variances, resource consumption, progress, deliverable quality, and risk exposure. • Strong command of office and collaborative tools, as well as planning, backlog management, risk tracking, anomaly tracking, and action plan tools. • Excellent writing skills to produce well-supported findings, operational recommendations, and summary reports for project governance bodies.Preferred IT Project Management and Auditing Frameworks : • PMBOK — scoping, planning, managing, and controlling the costs, schedules, quality, resources, and risks of an IT project. Recommended certification: Project Management Professional (PMP); PMI-RMP is an asset for project risk analysis. • PRINCE2 — governance, organization, continuous justification, and phased management of IT projects. Recommended certification: PRINCE2 Foundation; PRINCE2 Practitioner is preferred for an experienced profile. • Scrum — evaluation of the organization, roles, events, artifacts, and management of agile IT projects. Recommended certification: Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) or equivalent recognized certification; an advanced level is appreciated. • SAFe — evaluation of managing agile IT programs and projects at scale. Recommended certification: SAFe Agilist.Your professional qualities : • Rigor, methodical approach, analytical skills, and attention to detail. • Independence of judgment, objectivity, integrity, and respect for confidentiality. • Ability to take a step back, prioritize issues, and formulate well-supported conclusions. • Strong interpersonal skills, active listening, and the ability to interact effectively with technical, business, and management stakeholders. • Diplomacy, communication skills, and the ability to present sometimes sensitive findings constructively. • Autonomy, organization, respect for deadlines, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.The profile we are looking for : • You hold a higher education degree in computer science, information systems, project management, or a related field. • You have at least five years of experience in auditing IT projects. • You have already led assignments involving complex projects, from scoping to production deployment or closure. • You understand the business, financial, regulatory, and organizational challenges associated with digital transformations. • A project management or agile certification, such as PMP, PMI-RMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PSM I, or SAFe Agilist, is an asset. • You are fluent in French in a professional context; professional English skills will be appreciated in an international environment.Your contribution : • Provide stakeholders with a reliable and shared view of project control levels. • Highlight major risks and priority gaps based on well-reasoned analyses. • Propose recommendations that are proportionate to the stakes and directly usable by the relevant managers. • Contribute concretely to ensuring sound decisions, adherence to schedules, budgets, quality, and production deployment.Application: CV + cover letter + copies of diplomas to be sent to contact@keoni.fr #J-18808-Ljbffr