About the role:
Reporting
to the Senior Manager – Internal Audit, the position holder will drive
improvement in the internal control environment by providing proactive
recommendations on control issues. Perform business risk analysis by reviewing
business processes, prioritizing the risks identified and developing an audit
plan for manager review. Execution of specific audit assignments according to
the audit plan.
Responsibilities
- Participation in the overall development
and delivery of the audit plan.
- Lead, plan, execute and communicate
results of audit assignments as per the audit plan.
- Manage assignment level quality
requirements in all audit work in conformance to Internal policies,
auditing standards and procedures for consistent quality audit results.
- Provide advisory support management on
designing, implementing, and enhancing business controls.
- Provide independent assurance in strategic
projects and proactively recommend controls to mitigate risks.
- Follow up audit recommendations and
validate the implementation of the closure actions.
- Provide support to Risk Management
processes to ensure that business key risks are adequately assessed,
mitigated and the assurance map appropriately updated.
- Provide automation of audit testing
support for business controls.
- Provide timely and relevant reports on
audit outcomes to support management and the Board on risk assurance and
mitigation decisions.
- Keep abreast with the latest technology
trends and provide input to mitigate emerging threats.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience
- Business Competencies
- Working With Others.
- Consciously takes steps to make the most
of every conversation/interaction.
- Identifies people’s needs, interests and
motives to be able to influence the decisions they make.
- Communicates simply to excite and engage
people.
- Pro-actively adapts own style and approach
to build rapport, and work with others more effectively.
- Builds and maintains strong relationships
and networks.
Operational Excellence
- Targets effort and resources on
high-value, high impact activity.
- Focuses on achieving maximum performance
and driving continuous improvement.
- Thinks about processes and problems
cross-functionally and end-to-end.
- Uses knowledge of products, technology,
process, systems and policy to solve problems.
Creativity and Innovation
- Finds creative ways to exploit
opportunities and solve problems.
- Takes risks and pushes what is possible.
- Experiments with unorthodox approaches.
Business Know-how
- Uses data and research to make decisions
that are competitively and financially robust.
- Balances current and future needs.
- Thinks and acts like an owner of the
business.
- Acts in line with legal, regulatory,
professional and ethical standards.
Working With Change
- Responds flexibly to changing situations.
- Manages the business and people aspects of
change to drive performance.
Project and Programme Management
- Defines scope and deliverables in terms of
time, cost, quality and business benefit.
- Schedules activity and identifies resource
needs, dependencies and synergies.
- Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and
addresses issues.
Functional Competencies
Audit
This
competence describes the ability to objectively evaluate critical business
processes and projects to ensure compliance, mitigate risk and drive
improvement by implementing and testing process controls and governance.
Qualifications
- Upper second degree in a Technical or
Business field from a recognized University.
- Fully qualified accountant – CPA (K) or
equivalent and /or Holder of Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
or equivalent.
- 6-8 years working experience in external
audit specializing in Business processes and/or information systems
assurance from a reputable audit firm or extensive experience within an
internal audit function.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to
communicate with all levels of management as well as engage with diverse
stakeholders in multiple functions and or markets.
- Excellent reporting (oral and written)
skills.
- Proven ability to lead audits and manage
an audit team.
- Proven ability to self-start and
effectively manage their own workload to deliver a series of assignments.
- Experience of using data analytics tools
to support Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (e.g. ACL or Windows Idea).
How to Apply
