Did IT audits since I started my career 12 yrs ago. I am currently doing IT audits in Infrastructure/Cybersecurity space. But, due to restrictions in career growth in the audit team for infra/cyber at my current company, I was reached out by a Business Audit team to join their team (same corp level) which is growing, so it might be a better audit team to get promoted. But, I never did business operations type audits, therefore, wanted to ask how much it is different from IT auditing?

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IT Audit assesses mitigation of IT risk. Business audit: business/operational risk (scope dependent)

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Quite a bit different. IT focuses on systems. Often they have the same risks. However, each BP process poses different risks and whatnot. If your team has the same client over the years, you can learn it pretty fast. Risks are likely remained the same unless there is a change in business operation. Hope this helps.

Great thank you for the response. Yes my current company had the same client for several years therefore it would be great if I can pick it up fast

In IT audit, you also need to spend a significant amount of time upscaling yourself with you understanding of AI, cloud computing, etc......without it, you will not progress beyond a tester of controls. Upscaling opens up doors in risk, compliance etc....and gets you into positions where you actually develop the risk strategy

The business process audits are easier to follow in my opinion. They focus on the process associated with expenditure, sales payroll, etc. It's not as technical and you have the benefit of the internet, chat gbt etc...to dive deeper into most processes and risks.

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