Internal Audit Senior
Mazars
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress.
- Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes, and organize own work such that important items get done first.
- Build strong internal relationships within the service line and with other services across the organization.
- Manage internal and external relationships at an engagement level.
- Research the client with the objective of developing a detailed understanding of the environment in which they operate.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to manage critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
- Identifying risks and controls within business processes under review.
- Drafting detailed audit programmes for tests of attributes, controls and details, as appropriate.
- Identify opportunities for data analytic procedures.
- Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
- Reviewing working papers of junior team members.
- Provide a coaching / mentoring role and review sections prepared by junior staff.
- Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.
- Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions.
- Previous Audit firm experience necessary;
- CIA advantageous, or at the least, registration for completion of CIA;
- Membership with IIA;
- BCom with honours in Internal Audit / Accounting / Audit from an esteemed university;
- 4 years’ experience in a consulting role in governance, risk, and compliance, of which 2 years’ must be in a senior auditor role;
- A thorough knowledge of IIA standards and best practices;
- Strong project management and multi-tasking skills;
- Proven ability to manage clients, teams and other relevant stakeholders;
- Knowledge of internal audit software tools and methodologies;
- Good client relations and networking skills;
- Willingness to travel when necessary; and
- Valid drivers’ licence and own transport.