Internal Audit Senior

Role Overview

This position sits inside M-KOPA's internal audit and risk function and carries full ownership of individual audit assignments across the group's operations in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Reporting to the Head of Internal Audit & Risk, you will take an engagement from the first scoping conversation through testing, evidence review and report drafting, then stay with it until the agreed fixes are genuinely in place. It is a hands-on delivery role for someone who is comfortable being the auditor in the room — pressure-testing your own conclusions against pushback, judging how much exposure a control gap really carries, and helping the business close it rather than simply describing it.

Key Responsibilities

• Own assigned audits across the full lifecycle — scoping, fieldwork, evidence gathering, file documentation, reporting and post-report tracking — applying IIA standards and the function's internal methodology at every stage.
• Manage your own engagement timelines, sample quality and documentation standards, keeping multiple audits moving in parallel with little day-to-day supervision.
• Interrogate findings beyond the surface: establish what actually caused the issue, assess the risk exposure it creates, and shape recommendations the business can realistically act on.
• Apply data analytics and audit management tooling to broaden test coverage and reduce time spent on manual work.
• Present results directly to process owners and managers, defend your conclusions under challenge, and negotiate remediation actions and timelines proportionate to the risk.
• Produce clear, well-evidenced reports ready for review by the Head of Internal Audit & Risk, and build the working relationships with country teams and process owners that make fieldwork efficient and conversations candid.
• Contribute to the annual risk-based audit plan by helping scope candidate reviews and estimate the effort each will need, and flag emerging risks spotted during fieldwork for the next cycle or for escalation.
• Track agreed management actions through to closure, raise overdue or superficially addressed items, and support the maturing of the function's methodology, templates and standards while giving junior team members on-the-job guidance where needed.

Requirements & Qualifications

• A degree from a recognised university in a business discipline, IT, business information systems, or a comparable technical or commercial field.
• A professional audit or accounting certification is required — CIA, CISA or ACCA (or an equivalent such as CPA). Additional credentials such as CISM are an added advantage.
• At least seven years of audit experience, including time at a Big Four firm or an equivalent top-tier external audit practice. This is a firm requirement of the role, not a preference.
• A demonstrated record of leading audits unsupervised from planning through reporting and follow-up, ideally covering both business process reviews and technology-related audits.
• Solid hands-on audit technique: designing test procedures, selecting and evaluating samples, weighing evidence, and tracing findings back to their underlying cause.
• Confident, articulate communication — able to present and defend findings to management when conclusions are scrutinised.
• A sound working grasp of risk management principles and control frameworks.
• Strong personal organisation, with the discipline to juggle concurrent engagements and deadlines independently.
• Uncompromising integrity, confidentiality and objectivity.
• Comfort operating across several markets and cultures, and a willingness to travel.