Responsibilities as follows:
- Chair opening and closing meetings
- Assign to each team member responsibility for auditing specific processes, functions, sites, areas or
activities and reassign work as needed
- Manage external team representation during the audit process (expert, translator, Accreditation Bodies, …)
- Periodically communicate the progress of the audit and any concerns to the client and to the audit team
- Review with the client any need for changes to the audit scope which becomes apparent as on-site auditing
activities progress and report this to the back office
- Attempt to resolve any diverging opinions between the audit team and the client concerning audit evidence
or findings, and record unresolved points
- Review the audit findings, and any other appropriate information obtained during the audit, against the audit
objectives and audit criteria and classify the nonconformities
- Agree upon the audit conclusions, considering the uncertainty inherent in the audit process, any necessary
follow-up actions
- Confirm the appropriateness of the audit program or identify any modification required for future audits
(e.g., scope of certification, audit time or dates, surveillance frequency, audit team competence)
- Ensure that the audit report is prepared and shall be responsible for its content
- Recommends to the Technical Manager initial certification, maintaining of certification, recertification,
suspension, withdrawal, or reduction of the scope of certification.
Pre Requisite : Graduation in IT and Lead Auditor course of ISO 27001:2022, 22301:2019