Dinesh Gurlal Director - Data & Analytics

Dinesh Gurlal

CISA, Bachelor of Accounting, UCT Blockchain and Digital Currency: The Future of Money, UCT Data Protection and Privacy

Dinesh is an IT Audit Director at Forvis Mazars and has been working as part of the team for 4 years. His current role involves the management of the data analytics and application control division. His previous role includes being an external audit manager for 5 years at Forvis Mazars Durban.

Immediately after graduation from the University of KwaZulu Natal he began with his SAICA articles and since then has been involved with numerous amounts of audits in the public and private sector both in the external and IT audit environments.

His experience in IT audits covers:

  • IT general control reviews
  • Application control reviews
  • Data Analytics
  • Risk assessments
  • ISAE3402 engagements
  • System migration reviews
  • Other ad-hoc assignments

Sector experience

  • Retail
  • Financial Services
  • Consumer products
  • Technology
  • Mining
  • Public sector
  • Telecoms.

Dinesh has a wealth of experience in delivering value to large, transnational, and complex environment clients. 

Professional memberships

  • ISACA