Senior Internal Auditor

The Senior Internal Auditor forms part of the Auditing team, taking their direction from the Internal Audit Manager and operates in high complexity environments dealing with multiple levels in the business in multiple geographies, requiring a deep understanding of the global business and statutory environment.

The primary responsibility of the Senior Internal Auditor is the co-ordination of specific processes to support the implementation and execution of the Company's audit plan, monitoring compliance, preparing and presenting audit findings and recommendations to management and providing assurance of compliance to statutory requirements and policies and procedures.

- Must be able to travel locally and internationally

- Conducts and manages internal financial, operational and/or system audits and risk assessments.
- Test and document financial and computer system records for information system integrity and transaction validity, accuracy and completeness and reports discrepancies. .
- Requires strong audit knowledge and skills in finance/accounting/commercial and/or information system operations.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications:

- BCom Hons in Internal Audit/ Accounting / Commercial field of study;
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (preferable);
- Certified Internal Auditor (preferable);
- Certified Chartered Accountant - CA (SA) (preferable).

Key Experience & Skills:

- 8+ years' work experience in a large multi-national business or in 'Big 4' firm, preferably providing consulting and audit services in similar industry.
- Experienced in the use and evaluation of data analytics.
- Demonstrable experience supervising a team of auditors.
- Demonstrable experience working with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience auditing processes, financial information and IT systems.
- Assists Internal Audit management by contributing and ensuring that an auditing strategy and system is in place which identifies and analyses risks to the business.
- Works closely with the Internal Audit Manager to determine and plan the scope and objective of an internal audit.
- Advise on the development of the scope and objective of the audit, specifying the resource requirements, engagement work program and working papers.
- Ensure awareness of the workings in the audit and the areas of concern to management and relevant stakeholders.
- Remains current with auditing best practice and legislation to ensure the analysis and review of a variety of areas in the business depending on the scope identified in the audit plan.
- Analysing 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.
- Analysing 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.
- Responsible for ensuring the team completes the required audit work and findings in line with defined expectations and goals.
- Provides first level review of work papers, system descriptions and audit findings to ensure the retained documentation supports the audit work performed.
- Responsible for co-ordinating with management (auditee) to ensure audit delays are minimised and audit fieldwork and reporting timelines are met.
- Communicating progress of the Internal Audit to management (auditee) throughout the audit.
- Responsible for the preparation of the draft 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.
- Participates in the follow-up process with management to monitor implementation of remediation plans.
- Professionally communicate and present findings to senior management, reporting on the policies adopted for auditing, and the programs and activities of the Auditing team.
- Lead, manage and ensure the co-ordination of specific processes to support the implementation and execution of the global audit plan and ensure that the global auditing strategy and plan is communicated to the Auditing team.
- Uses their specialist knowledge of audit procedures to assist with the review of the outcome of the audit process in terms of its objectives, quality, completeness and feedback.