Ep 189: Finding and Developing Next Gen Auditors w/ Melissa Pici (Syniverse)

This week, our guest is Melissa Pici, Sr. IT Audit Manager at Syniverse. In this episode, Melissa discusses the best ways to find and develop the Next Gen Auditors within your organization. We touch on topics including candidate screening during recruitment, team upskilling, and the critical significance of passion, curiosity, and drive in the audit profession.   Be sure to connect with Melissa on LinkedIn.   Also, be sure to follow us on our new social media accounts on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.   Also be sure to sign up for The Audit Podcast newsletter and to check the full video interview on The Audit Podcast YouTube channel.   Timecodes: 2:36 – Internet Browsing History 6:17 - Internal Audit and Data Analytics 7:40 - Data Ccientists vs. Data Analysts 10:37 - Audit Analytics Conference 12:45 - Next Gen Auditors 18:03 - Screening Candidates for Passion, Curiosity, and Drive 21:07 - How to Upskill Your Team 25:38 - Accountability 28:42 - What is a Calibration Meeting 32:57 - Next Gen Managers 36:54 - Final Thoughts   *   This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.  Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.