Job Responsibilities:
- Communicating with a variety of stakeholders across the company
- Support compilation and implementation of annual internal audit plan
- Support company-wide internal audit in accordance with annual audit objectives
- Hold opening and closing meetings with management.
- Challenging current processes across the company and identify opportunities for refinement.
- Reporting on control deficiencies to management and making recommendations to mitigate risk
- and add value.
- Play active role to developing, implementing, maintaining and reviewing of internal audit policies procedures including ensuring they are up to date in accordance with international best practices.
- Support to implement best audit and business practices in line with applicable internal audit charter.
- Evaluate financial documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with regulations.
- Identifying financial record-keeping process that can be improved
- Determining ways to cut costs and improve profitability.
- Identifying significant risk areas of the business and through effective implementation and
- monitoring of controls, offer recommendation to reduce business and financial risks.
- Accessing the efficiency and productivity of staff at different levels in line to achieving the overall objectives of the company and making recommendations for improvements where there are gaps.
- Conduct ad hoc investigations into identified or reported risks.
- Make presentation of all findings in report form to the Management and BRAAC
- Engaging remediation of identified issues through follow-up
Competencies/ Requirements / Qualifications
- Degree in Internal audit, Financial Accounting, Financial management, Economics or Business studies.
- An MBA in related disciple will be an advantage.
- 5 years’ work experience in an internal audit environment
- Certification with relevant internal audit or accounting bodies (IIA, CISA, ICAN, CITN, ACCA, CFA)
- Strong communication skill to work with all members of the organization
- High level inter personal skill
- Organizational, problem solving and business acumen skills
- Excellent attention to details to review large amount of data and numbers with ability to multi- task.
- Exceptional mathematical and analytical skills to verify entries
- Good critical thinking skills to gather all the available data and make informed decisions
- Excellent research skills to find all related information needed
- Proficiency in accounting software and spreadsheets
- Presentation and report writing skills
- Willingness to travel for the purpose of the job.
