• The job holder will have full scope financial and operational audit responsibilities from planning, budgeting, resource allocation, risk assessments, value-for-money reviews, audit and review of working procedures, report writing, and audit follow-up. Compliance reviews, investigations, assurance, and risk management.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Objectively review an organization's business processes
• Obtain, analyse, and evaluate accounting processes, documentation & data.
• Reconcile documentation with actual inventory or assets to ascertain accuracy
• Perform and control the full audit cycle including risk management and control management over operations’ effectiveness, financial reliability and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations.
• Challenge current processes across the company and identify opportunities for refinement.
• Evaluate the efficacy of risk management procedures that are currently in place.
• Assess best financial practices for an organisation and make relevant, informed suggestions.
• Identify loopholes and recommend risk aversion measures and cost savings. Make recommendations on how to improve internal controls and governance processes.
• Prepare and present reports that reflect audit’s results and document process.
• Ensure that the organization is complying with relevant laws and statutes
• Protect against fraud and theft of the organization's assets.
• Support the development of an assurance planning reporting process
• Act as an objective source of independent advice to ensure validity, legality and goal achievement.
• Maintain open communication with management and audit committee
• Engage in remediation of identified issues through follow-ups
• Conduct follow-up audits to monitor management’s interventions
• Engage in continuous knowledge development regarding sector’s rules, regulations, best practices, tools, techniques and performance standards.