Motlanalo Chartered Accountants and Auditors
Position: Senior Internal Auditor
We are looking for an experienced, fully independent and qualified Senior Internal Auditor to perform internal audit engagements and other operational and practice management tasks in a cost and time efficient manner. The position is based in our Head Office – Polokwane, direct applications to Mahlatse.Fallon@motlanalo.co.za, closing date 28 May 2021.
Minimum Requirements:
- Honours degree in internal auditing or related degree.
- 2- 4 Proven working experience as Internal Auditor or Senior Auditor
- At least 2 Years teammate experience
- Drivers Licence
- CIA in progress would be an added advantage.
- Available immediately
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of internal auditors
- Submit weekly progress reports to the manager
- Keep the manager updated on the projects in progress
- Monitor and evaluate team performance
- Work on projects without supervision and prompting.
- Documenting client processes and procedures for auditing understanding.
- Overall performance of audit procedures which include risk identification and assessment,
- Developing audit programmes, conducting fieldwork and developing audit findings in line with internal audit methodology.
- Attend client meetings and liaise with clients continuously during the audit.
- Complete assigned audit work within allocated budget.
- Conduct research on specific areas relevant to internal audit.
- Identifying weakness in key internal control.
- Drafting audit findings and recommending corrective action
- Discussing findings with management then drawing up draft and final audit reports.
- Ensure that the full audit file is completed on one drive/Teammate.
Client responsibilities:
- Applies the organization’s audit methodology and carries out the audit procedures to meet the specific audit engagement objectives
- Maintains objectivity throughout the audit engagements
- Demonstrates efficiency and persistence, managing own time and ensuring engagement deadlines and objectives are met
- Selects and applies the appropriate tools and techniques to data gathering, analysis and interpretation, and reporting.
- Plans and conducts audit engagements to identify key risks and controls
- Presents findings and proposes recommendations that deal with root cause of issues and impact to the organization
People responsibilities:
- Contribute to effective team work in internal engagement situations
- Collaborates with others and encourages others to work collaboratively
- Seeks and justifies opportunities for continuous improvement
- Initiates and manages change within sphere of responsibility
- Encourages others to embrace change by explaining the intended benefits
- Anticipates reactions to change and adapts own style to support others
Skills and attributes for success:
- Respects confidentiality and secures the trust of other parties;
- Maintains curiosity and exercises professional skepticism
- Selects and uses a variety of manual and automated tools and techniques to obtain data and other information on business process
- Analysis and appraises the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes
- Applies problem solving techniques for routine situations
- Uses critical thinking to identify and propose tactics for business process improvement
- Applies data collection, data mining, data analysis and statistical techniques
- Ensures that information in decision making is relevant, accurate and sufficient
- Strong strategic and operational experience in internal Audit
- Thorough understanding of business processes