Senior Internal Auditor

About the role

Responsibilities

• Role Purpose: To assist in the development of the overall Audit Plan through assessing and prioritising the risks and in determining critical control issues and process enhancements in order to achieve audit objectives and goals.
• Key Responsibilities:
• 1- Core Accountabilities:
• - Assists in the development of the overall Audit Plan by assessing and prioritising the risks both within individual areas of expertise in the assigned audit areas and at the company level to ensure that audit efforts and resources are focused on areas of higher risk.
• - Develop an audit program and prepare a detailed scoping of work or ad hoc requests in line with the Audit Plan.
• - Obtain sufficient background information and knowledge, and understanding of the overall business process, and identification of key risks to properly plan and complete fieldwork.
• - Assists in identifying critical control issues and process enhancements and in recommending corrective actions, performs operational audits, covering all significant business processes and develops procedures, schedules, and programs to achieve audit objectives and goals.
• - Prepare audit findings and recommendations to identify the gaps and provide improvement recommendations to be reviewed by the Team Leader, Sr. Manager / Manager.
• - Review proper filing for working papers and record notes, and obtain sufficient evidence to support audit findings and recommendations.
• - Conduct regular follow-up exercises to review the status of agreed actions to provide assurance or an updated status on the implementation of the agreed actions.
• - Maintains professional standard of work, keeps current with internal audit best practices, uses own professional judgment as and when required and maintains regular contact with Department Heads/process owners to discuss audit scoping, audit interviews, and briefings on outcome of audits.
• - Maintains sufficient general knowledge of overall company procedures, policies, and objectives to identify potential risk areas more efficiently.
• - Participate in consulting engagements and assist in overall projects and other related duties to give support to other professionals.
• 2- Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures
• - Adhere to the direction for the development and implementation of the organisational unit’s policies, systems, processes and procedures, identifying potential areas of improvement to ensure efficient and effective operation.
• - Comply with corporate requirements on adherence to policies, procedures and instructions related to all relevant regulatory directives to ensure a safe and risk-free environment.
• Job Specifications:
• - Bachelor\'s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, auditing, or information systems.
• - Minimum 3-5 years of experience in the Internal Audit field.
• - CIA or equivalent is a preferred
• - Good knowledge of operational audit, risks and controls
• - Fluent in English speaking and writing is a must
• - Good knowledge of report writing and field work.

Skills

• Internal Audit
• Audit Planning
• Risk Assessment
• Control Testing
• Operational Audit
• Audit Reporting
• Field Work
• Audit Program Development
• Documentation and Record Keeping
• Team Collaboration
• English Proficiency