Expected salary of Security Professional

Xiaosa

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I prefer to not advise/comment on which offer to choose.

But some factors you may want to consider

1. Where your interest lied ? Finance or IT. Personal opinion is both are thank less jobs
2. What are the major differences between the 2 offers . e.g Salary, bonus, benefits, no of leave, medical. Not to forget training benefits

3. Strength of the company. Personally I feel this is very important. Given the looming recession. You dont want to join an organization and face the possibilities of retrenchment within six months. I was in that situation and the feeling is terrible. In summary job security .

4. Is this your first job ?? If yes, choose what you like. At this stage its impossible to know where your real career may lie. Get some experience is best
 

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dun worry about job security for both fields. demand will always be there. even if big 4 start to scale back on recruiting, as long as u r not fked up u will have a job always.

most important like what xiaosa mentioned...what is your interest like? do u prefer crunching numbers or fiddling with IT stuff?

if first job, die die also must join big 4...dun bother with ANY other companies. cos once u stay a couple of years in big 4, your marketability increases drastically. many corporations only look for candidates with big 4 experience...
 

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Ya lo, big 4 experience better ba. If you in small firm, hard to find jobs one if you got retrenched or what. Anyway, I.T audit and finance audit is so different job scope. So consider carefully leh.
 

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yes I will consider. My considerations are:

1. As a first job, i think i should limit my options to much as financial audit opens many doors, IT audit is more specialised. Good if I stay there all the way.

2. In this economy, if i realise IT audit is not my thing, quiting is a risk and we wont know how long this reccession will last. I think hoping from normal audit to IT audit is easier than the other way around.

3. Being an accountancy undergrad, CPA is more valuable to me. Even though the department said I can attain CPA doing IT audit. but I would like to be exposed to more industries as a first job.
 

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Hi guys,
Just need some advise on IT indus. i just ord'ed 6 months ago n was looking for a IT job (currently working as customer service). I am a Diploma grad (grad in internet computing). I am being offered 1.6k a month (exclude AWP, Variable bonus,etc) I was wondering is the 1.6k offered is fair for me or ???
Thx alot~~!!
 

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I believe the money and workload as a IT auditor require no further introduction. Hmm... I'm curious about what does an IT auditor do on a day-to-day basis and where does one move on to become after a few years in this line?
 

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yes I will consider. My considerations are:

1. As a first job, i think i should limit my options to much as financial audit opens many doors, IT audit is more specialised. Good if I stay there all the way.

2. In this economy, if i realise IT audit is not my thing, quiting is a risk and we wont know how long this reccession will last. I think hoping from normal audit to IT audit is easier than the other way around.

3. Being an accountancy undergrad, CPA is more valuable to me. Even though the department said I can attain CPA doing IT audit. but I would like to be exposed to more industries as a first job.

Lol, I.T auditor experience also qualfiy for CPA ar? Actually I feel I.T auditor does not knows many things, that is what I feel. Can system analyst in implementing accounting software such as SAP experience counts as experience for CPA? Last I heard cannot leh.
 

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they say it does qualify as it supports the auditing function. but only qualifys as non-practising CPA or something
 

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i tink fr professional job, accounting or infosec wich translate cpa or cissp in industry cert fr instance, the based deg muz still be a proper & related one. else, difficult to hold the ford in the long-haul.
 

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Start with financial auditing. you will at some point come across the need for an IT auditor to ascertain various aspect of your data. and you'll come to understand if the work they do is something that you would like to do long term. personally, I think there is a huge misconception from those outside the industry that IT auditing is about auditing IT.

yes I will consider. My considerations are:

1. As a first job, i think i should limit my options to much as financial audit opens many doors, IT audit is more specialised. Good if I stay there all the way.

2. In this economy, if i realise IT audit is not my thing, quiting is a risk and we wont know how long this reccession will last. I think hoping from normal audit to IT audit is easier than the other way around.

3. Being an accountancy undergrad, CPA is more valuable to me. Even though the department said I can attain CPA doing IT audit. but I would like to be exposed to more industries as a first job.
 

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Start with financial auditing. you will at some point come across the need for an IT auditor to ascertain various aspect of your data. and you'll come to understand if the work they do is something that you would like to do long term. personally, I think there is a huge misconception from those outside the industry that IT auditing is about auditing IT.

Well, there are I.T auditors whose role are to audit control only, for e.g, check the resign list from HR and compare to the user list in the software they using, check if the data backup proccess is ok etc.

There are some I.T auditors whose role is to audit on the software configurations itself and there are some I.T auditors is whose role is more on application audits.
 

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actually i'm too lazy to read this whole thread , but i've read the question and couple replies to it ...
i just wanna share with ... ur salary depends mainly on what u've got ... many graduate guys from famous universities fail with their jobs , just coz they r havnt got their hands involved in projects and tasks ..

also , if u r graduated in a good university , have excellent certificates , u can raid ur salary in an obvious way ...

just wanted to share with u guys , it's a very good thread actually :)
Andy
 

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I think those who are very good don't earn alot cuz they focus so much on 1 field, they cannot do other things like talk or give presentations on their work or teach ppl.

Instead, those who can do a mix are the ones who earn the big bucks. And lead the team of the hardcore developers.
 

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obviously, those with mentoring skills, good communications skill and the ability to give coherent answers are in a better position.
 

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IT audit is an interesting field with a good potential, you should take it up
 

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Now CISA exams are CITREP endorsed - 80% subsidy. Even the prep course is CITREP subsidized, 80% also.

IT audit is gaining recognition?

I am from application side and thinking of switching. But reading from the thread here, seems that opportunity is not a given. It looks like it'd be a better chance of trying to move within the organization that I work before trying for a IT audit job elsewhere?
 
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