Closing: Jun 6, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: May 23, 2024 (24 days ago)
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- A good First Degree in Accounting/Finance
- Possession of a Post graduate degree in Finance/Accounting or related degree is an added advantage
- Membership of the CPA or any other related professional qualification is required.
- Minimum of 10 years Internal Audit work experience in a similar organization, professional services firm or retail business
Decision Expectations:
- Acts on defined procedures and decisions
- Plans own work schedule and work schedule of subordinates
- Assigns work to subordinates
- Monitor subordinates’ work performance
- Appraises/evaluates subordinates’ performance
- Recommends operational, strategic and financial decisions.
Responsibilities
- A good First Degree in Accounting/Finance
- Possession of a Post graduate degree in Finance/Accounting or related degree is an added advantage
- Membership of the CPA or any other related professional qualification is required.
- Minimum of 10 years Internal Audit work experience in a similar organization, professional services firm or retail business
Decision Expectations:
- Acts on defined procedures and decisions
- Plans own work schedule and work schedule of subordinates
- Assigns work to subordinates
- Monitor subordinates’ work performance
- Appraises/evaluates subordinates’ performance
- Recommends operational, strategic and financial decisions.
Job Objective and Summary
- To examine, evaluate and improve the effectiveness and adequacy of risk management, control and governance processes.
- To be the catalyst to improving governance and internal control and also supporting the organisation in its wider business objectives through execution of proactive Audit activities.
Core Duties and Key Result Areas
- Strategic Leadership and Management
- Provide overall direction to drive the vision of the audit function
- Build audit to understand the use of new and effective audit tools
- Ensuring audits are completed to a high level of quality, integrity and agreed timelines
- Communicating audit findings effectively through professionally designed audit reports
- Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, to the Boards, Audit Committees, and Management
- Build awareness of external leading practices and benchmarks to embed within the internal audit function
- Be the final layer of identification of risk management and exposure before external parties
- Provide necessary support to external auditor, external co-sourcing firms and regulators, as required
Risk / Quality Monitoring and Management:
- Provide teaching, training and coaching of audit staff
- Ensure projects are prioritised based on risk and exposure
- Develop and maintains productive audit staff relationship through communication and meetings with other departments
- Proactive identification of potential risk or exposure from current policies processes and procedures
- Establish quality control programmes during internal audit activities through project planning, resource management, file review, reporting and follow up
- Conduct risk assessment for audit coverage area
- Ensures prioritisation of projects based on risk and exposure
- Provide advice on internal control and participate in enhancing internal audit standards and practices within the company.
Reporting and Supervision:
- Plan, assigns and supervises audit staff
- Direct the overall internal audit operations on behalf of the Board Audit Committee and the management
- Plan, schedule, coordinate, review and report on the work of audit staff
- Conducts follow-up audits to ensure that regulations and sector rules are being met and best practices are followed
Audit planning:
- Lead the development of the strategic audit plan adopting a risk-based approach
- Provide direction in the cascading of strategic audit plan into annual plans
- Develops procedures, schedules , priorities and programmes for achieving audit objectives and goals
Relationship Management and Capacity Building:
- Prepare and issue complex audit reports to management using advanced audit skills
- Conduct ad-hoc special projects as requested by the Board of Directors, Audit Committee or the MD
- Advise and coaching of Management to address risks and exposure.
- Attend the executive committee and shared services meetings
- Ensure internal audit staff develop skills and knowledge through professional education, seminars, workshops etc.
Key Performance Indicators
- Achievement of Company Sales, EBITDA, GP, PAT targets
- Achievement of the Internal Audit Departments’ budget/targets/objectives
- Achievement of Individual Personal Development Plans
Knowledge Requirements:
- Understanding of policy formulation and regulation
- Understanding of audit and investigation principles and practice
- Understanding of international accounting standards
- Knowledge of documentation
- Deep understanding of the business
- Knowledge of risk management techniques
- Understanding of practice and related policy issues, their implications and applications within the QSR industry
- Understanding of financial and accounts statements
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