Job Description
Job Description
- An Internal Auditor conducts audits to assess the effectiveness and accuracy of a financial system’s record-keeping.
- They ensure that internal and financial processes comply with laws and regulations. The Internal Auditor scrutinises balance sheets, account balances and cash flow statements for anomalies.
- The Internal Auditor recommends changes to an organisation’s accounting or operations to a Manager.
- Internal Auditors also perform investigative work into ethical issues.
- When the organisation implements audit actions, it is the Internal Auditor who tracks and monitors them.
Qualifications
Needed Qualifications and Experience:
- Minimum of 2.1 preferred.
- At least six years relevant experience from leading accounting/ audit firms.
- Preferred experience is provision of external (and preferably internal) audit services to clients in the retail, manufacturing, consumer market sectors.
- Preferred accounting firms are: kpmg, pwc, Deloitte, EY, Grant Thornton, PKF, BDO, Abax-OOSA, SIAO.
Needed Skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent research and analytical skills
- High levels of integrity and ethical standards
- A keen eye for detail to successfully scrutinise data
- Ability to stay calm in a high-pressure work environment
- In-depth knowledge of accounting software and standards
- Ability to interact with coworkers and work in a team.