Auditor
Fixed term, Contract
Job Description
- Lead assignment planning, execution and reporting of audits both within the covered locations;
- Perform projects and special assignments as required;
- Ensure timely and complete follow-up (review, validation, and documentation) of outstanding audit recommendations;
- Coaching and supervision of less experienced staff;
- Work closely and maintain a good level of interaction/co-operation with business stakeholders as well as with direct team members and audit staff at other locations;
- Actively participate and/or perform the yearly risk assessment as supervised by Regional Supervisors and Management.
- Performing audit assignments
- Effective and efficient diagnostic work on audit is performed.
- Audit work if properly assigned to team members and monitored, ensuring that less experienced team members execute their work in accordance with departmental standards.
- Fully adhering to departmental assignment management requirements, e.g., Tollgate’s process.
- Complete audit assignments within assigned budgets and agreed timelines.
- Deliver well written and clear audit reports.
- Manage the staff evaluations process on assignments, ensuring that assignment staff objectives are set for all auditors on their assignments (in line with individual development objectives), and ensuring that honest, constructive and timely feedback is provided.
- Timely escalation of any staff performance issues to the Regional Supervisors/Audit Management.
- Execution of audit work on business audits in the locations covered by the UK regional team.
- Participation in Audit Diagnostic work under the supervision of Heads of Assignment.
- Audit testing in accordance with test plans assigned by Heads of Assignment.
- Document audit issues and all work papers in standard departmental formats and perform operational debriefs to auditees in conjunction with the Head of Assignment.
- Follow up outstanding audit recommendations until implementation.
- Occasionally, perform Special Assignments as necessitated
- From time-to-time Audit management may assign specific tasks related to the organization and running of the department, e.g. some projects related to various aspects of departmental efficiency and effectiveness.
- Proactive follow-up of outstanding audit recommendations until implementation
- Timely and rigorous (i.e. reviewed, validated and well-documented) follow-up of allocated audit recommendations until completion.
- Anticipation and identification of delays and issues in relation to deliverables.
- Appropriate escalation and active assistance in the resolution of issues raised during the recommendation implementation process.
- Reporting on recommendation follow up status to Audit Management on a regular basis.
- Tasks related to the Audit Department’s organization
- Assist in the preparation of presentations used for various Control Committees (reports, presentations and statistics).
- Contribute to the preparation of internal Audits annual Risk Assessment and continuous monitoring.
- Comply at all times with the requirements of the SG & IGAD policies and procedures and prescribed International Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Standards.
- All audit staff are required to sign the IIA Declaration of Professional standards and Code of Ethics on an annual basis.
- Coaching of less experienced audit staff
- Provide assistance, advice and practical training to less experienced colleagues on both the audit process/ methodology and SG businesses and products.
- Actively participate and/or perform the yearly risk assessment, which is the basis for the preparation of the yearly Audit plan when required.
- Fulfil all audit quality standards expected as defined by Quality Assurance function.
- When assigned responsibility for other audit staff, ensure that departmental quality standards are adhered to.
- Contribute to the audit innovation culture of conceptualizing meaningful data analytics use-cases which can be used by audit teams globally.
- Responsibility for ensuring that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your business or other businesses for which you have any level of responsibility. It is your responsibility to ensure compliance with operational risk or compliance requirements (e.g. Golden rules, security policies and regulatory requirements).
- Responsibility for managing, controlling, preparing and escalating risk within the scope of your position.
- Responsibility for reading, understanding and complying with the Company’s Conduct and Standards and corresponding regulations.
- You will be notified of changes to policies in a timely manner through announcements and/or intranet updates.
- Act with integrity and due skill, care and diligence in carrying out your duties.
- Your actions should always be able to satisfy high standards of scrutiny and professional practice standards defined by the IIA.
- All audit staff are required to sign the IIA Declaration of Professional standards and Code of Ethics on an annual basis.
- You sign to agree conformance to the following rules of conduct:
- Integrity
- Shall perform your work with honesty, diligence, and responsibility.
- Shall observe the law and make disclosures expected by the law and the profession.
- Shall not knowingly be a party to any illegal activity or engage in acts that are discreditable to the profession of internal auditing or to the organization.
- Shall respect and contribute to the legitimate and ethical objectives of the organization.
- Shall not participate in any activity or relationship that may impair or be presumed to impair their unbiased assessment.
- This participation includes those activities or relationships that may be in conflict with the interests of the organization.
- Shall not accept anything that may impair or be presumed to impair your professional judgment.
- Shall disclose all material facts known to you that, if not disclosed, may distort the reporting of activities under review.
- Shall be prudent in the use and protection of information acquired in the course of your duties.
- Shall not use information for any personal gain or in any manner that would be contrary to the law or detrimental to the legitimate and ethical objectives of the organization.
- External contacts (under the supervision of Supervisor and Audit management)
- Outsourcing Company (on a case by case basis within assignment).
- Regulators, strictly under the supervision of Audit Management.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Previous work experience (preferably)
- Prior experience leading internal audits in Financial Services.
- Able to perform audit work with sufficient autonomy, organization and responsiveness to conduct assignments efficiently.
- Strong understanding of the audit process and methodology – rigorous and reliable in the audit approach.
- Good understanding of banking and financial products, Financing Business as well as Resources Functions.
- Strong analytic and synthesis skills.
- Good project management skills and efficient management of time.
- Able to manage priorities, deadlines and budget constraints.
- Coaching skills – Able to manage and coordinate efficiently a team of auditors with different levels of experience and differing backgrounds. Able to clearly articulate the audit's objectives, timeframes and priorities. Coordinates tasks and supports members of the team.
- Good knowledge of standard IT tools such as MS Office suite.
- Experience using data analytics tools and techniques.
- Compliant with confidentiality requirements.
- Good writing and presentation skills.
Reference no: 104375