Job Description

Mazars Advisory Services is currently recruiting for an 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.
Duties and 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 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 procedures.
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• Reviewing working papers of junior team members.
• 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.

• 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;
• 4 years experience in a consulting role in governance, risk, and compliance, of which 2 years must be in a senior auditor role;
• 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;
• Good client relations and networking skills;
• Willingness to travel when necessary; and
• Valid drivers licence and own transport.

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