Internal Auditor X 6

SUMMARY:
Internal Auditor

POSITION INFO:

Our client, a global technology organization is seeking 6 Internal Auditors to join their corporate division. They offer an excellent working environment, international travel, excellent benefits, a competitive salary, stability and growth.

Summary

The Internal Auditor forms part of the Auditing team, taking their direction from the Senior Internal Auditor and operates in complex environments.

The primary responsibility of the Internal Auditor is the coordination of specific processes to support the implementation and execution of the audit plan, monitoring compliance, preparing and presenting audit findings and recommendations and providing assurance of compliance to statutory requirements and policies and procedures. He/she will be required to bring subject matter expertise to the audits and/or risk assessments they are responsible for implementing.

Conducts internal financial, operational, and/or system audits and risk assessments. Performs audit procedures on financial and computer system records to ensure information system integrity and transaction validity, accuracy and completeness and reports discrepancies. Assists in preparing audit plans and understands the specific issues to be evaluated. Develops formal written reports to communicate audit results to management and regulatory compliance agencies, if applicable and makes recommendations as appropriate. Requires audit knowledge and skills in finance/accounting and/or information system operations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Must be able to travel locally and internationally (20-30%).
• Coordinate processes to support implementation and execution of audit plans.
• Works closely with the more senior internal auditing team to determine and plan the scope and objective of an internal audit specifying the resource requirements and the engagement work program.
• Work with external stakeholders to coordinate reporting and ensure all stakeholders are aware of the audit details and areas of concern.
• Remains current with best practice and legislation and related business operational processes to enable analyses and review of a variety of risk and compliance areas in the business depending on the scope identified in the audit plan.
• Analyzing the operations in a way which closely follows the rules and procedures supporting the organization’s goals and objectives to determine compliance to these procedures.
• Analyzing and evaluating the internal controls to determine its effectiveness in mitigating risks and threats and to ensure the reliability of financial reports and compliance to laws and statutory reports.
• Evaluates methods used by the company to protect its assets and assesses the relevance of safeguards.
• Professionally communicate audit findings to required stakeholders.
• Prepare a final audit report for submission and distribution to the various stakeholders and the adequacy and effectiveness of stakeholder action plans are assessed and implementation is monitored and reported in writing
• Conduct audit finding presentations to management.

• Provides objective evaluations of internal controls, risk management efforts and governance processes

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Demonstrable analytical and reasoning skills.
• Ability to interpret complex processes, policies and financial and legal documents.
• Ability to understand and interpret data.
• Requires audit knowledge and skills in finance/accounting and/or information system operations.
• Specialist at gathering, analysing and evaluating facts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to establish rapport and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactive in approach and meticulous attention to detail.
• Self-starter and goal driven.
• Innovative problem-solver.
• High performance individual.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Ability to work in high pressure environments and deliver high quality work.
• Comfortable with interacting with senior management and executives.
• Ability to clearly articulate ideas and findings to a variety of stakeholders.
• Able to provide insights and value into audit plan, procedures and outcomes.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Honours in Accounting / Financial / Commercial field of study;
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (preferable);
• Certified Internal Auditor (preferable);
• Certified Chartered Accountant - CA (SA) (preferable).

Required Experience:

• 5+ years’ work experience in a large multi-national business or in ‘Big 4’ firm.
• Relevant industry experience (preferable).
• Experienced in the use and evaluation of Data Analytics.
• Demonstrable experience working with internal and external stakeholders.

• Experience auditing processes, financial information and IT systems

Additional Job Description

• Seasoned and experienced professional with demonstrable related experience.
• Has full understanding of specialisation area.
• Resolves wide range of issues in creative ways.
• Fully qualified, career level, career journey-orientated.
• Uses good judgement in selecting tools and methods to solve problems.
• Networks with senior internal and external people in own area of expertise.

• Receives little instruction on day-to-day work, receives general instructions on new assignments.

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