Internal Audit Manager

About the job

Forvis Mazars Advisory Services is currently recruiting for a Manager in Internal Audit to join their dynamic, fast-growing team.

Your why?

To a be successful you should have previous internal audit firm experience and an appropriate undergraduate degree, post graduate degree and a CIA qualification (or at the minimum, the candidate must have already completed at least 1 part of the CIA examination)

What will your day look like?

• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes and organize own work such that important items get done first
• Build strong internal relationships within the service line and with other services across the organization
• Manage internal and external relationships at an engagement level
• Research the client with the objective of developing a detailed understanding of the environment in which they operate
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope
• Identifying risks and controls within business processes under review
• Drafting detailed audit programmes for tests of attributes, controls and details, as appropriate
• Identify opportunities for data analytic procedure
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing
• Reviewing working papers of junior team member
• Provide a coaching / mentoring role and review sections prepared by junior staff
• Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solution
• Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating action
• Manage the delivery of each assignment in line with scope and limitation
• Support the business in championing strategic business role
• Manage a portfolio of clients; and
• Build and maintain client relationships

What will make you successful?

• Previous Audit firm experience necessary
• CIA advantageous, or at the least, registration for completion of CIA
• Membership with IIA
• BCom with honours in Internal Audit / Accounting / Audit from an esteemed university
• 6 years’ experience in a consulting role in governance, risk, and compliance, of which 2 years’ must be in a managerial role

What other additional qualities that will position you for success?

• A thorough knowledge of IIA standards and best practice
• Strong project management and multi-tasking skills
• Proven ability to manage clients, teams and other relevant stakeholders
• Knowledge of internal audit software tools and methodologies
• Good client relations and networking skills
• Willingness to travel when necessary.