Senior Internal Auditor

About the job

Forvis Mazars Advisory (Pty) Ltd is currently recruiting for an Internal Audit Senior in Internal Audit to join their dynamic, fast-growing team. The successful candidate should have the necessary internal audit skills, knowledge, and experience.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 Forvis Mazars and with other services across the organization.
• Research client industry, company structure, key customers and suppliers and possible insight into operations and the various processes
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Collaborate with the client to identify critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
• Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
• Drafting detailed audit programmes to test controls in place.
• Identify basic data analytic procedures.
• Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy, and validity thereof.
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• Provide a coaching / mentoring role and review sections prepared by junior staff.
• Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.
• Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions

What will your day look like?

• Plan and execute risk-based internal audits;
• Provide consulting services to clients;
• Draft audit reports and present final findings to the client;
• Provide on the job coaching to internal auditors and trainees;
• Supervision of internal audit teams on multiple audits;
• Apply internal audit specific policies, procedures, methodologies and standards;
• Manage the delivery of each assignment in line with scope and limitations;
• Support the business in championing strategic business roles; and
• Build and maintain client relationships.

What will position you for success?

• CIA advantageous;
• Membership with IIA;
• Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree in Internal Auditing, Accounting, or a related field;
• 4 years’ experience in a consulting role in governance, risk, and compliance, of which 2 years’ must be in a senior auditor role;

Additional skills that will position you for success:

• A thorough knowledge of IIA standards and best practices;
• 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;
• Solid understanding of internal audit methodologies, risk and control frameworks (e.g. COSO, IIA Standards), and end-to-end audit execution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging directly with senior client management (CFOs, GMs, Heads of Function) during fieldwork and findings discussions
• Proven internal audit experience within financial services environments (e.g. asset management, banking, insurance, fintech, healthcare, or multi-site operational environments)