Audit Support Intern

BDO South Africa; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO South Africa Incorporated Audit Support Centre in Gqeberha is seeking a young, energetic task executor to join our team. The role focuses on client portal setup, budget and document handling, and ensuring timely processing in line with BDO methodology.

You should possess strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail, and the ability to work both in a team and independently under deadlines. Prior audit or financial administration exposure is preferred.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, Internal Audit or related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and strict adherence to deadlines.
• Ability to work in a diverse team and independently.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage Client Portal access and confirm client personnel.
• Monitor and upload budgets to Maconomy Cloud; follow up with managers and partners.
• Create and communicate engagement codes to the audit team.
• Support administrative tasks and minute taking as required.
• Ensure CRM processes for acceptance and continuance are completed.
• Review system descriptions and ensure up-to-date information for year current year.
• Request and track bank confirmations from the audit team; initiate the process.
• Assist with APT roll-forward and ensure proper access and sign-offs.
• Respond to independence confirmations timeously and escalate issues when needed.
• Ensure documents are uploaded on APT and signed off after review.
• Capture work and meet deadlines; raise issues to Project Supervisor promptly.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Problem solving

Time management

Pro-active

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Independence

Education

Accounting/Finance/Internal Audit qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The BDO South Africa Incorporated Audit Support Centre is looking for a young, energetic task executor, ready to join the Centre in the Gqeberha office. Candidates who demonstrate qualities of pro-activeness, including but not limited to excellent verbal and written communication skills; professional etiquette; able to demonstrate problem solving skills during the interview process, including time management skills, will be highly considered. Candidates with experience in an audit or financial administration role or experience in internal auditing are preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Client Portal Creation- ensuring that the BDO Client Portal has been created timeously and ensuring that all of the relevant people have been included. This requires confirmation with the audit clients of the client personnel to be included as well as tasks to be allocated.
• Budget Approval- ensuring that the submitted budgets by the audit engagement teams have been uploaded timeously onto Maconomy Cloud. Consistent follow-up with the audit engagement managers and audit partners may be required to ensure that the budgets are approved timeously.
• Maconomy Engagement Code - ensuring that the engagement code is created timeously and this must be communicated to the respective audit engagement manager immediately.
• Initial Request including uploading to the created client portal.
• Acceptance and continuance- ensuring that the adequate CRM processes have been completed. Consistent follow up is required.
• System Descriptions - ensuring that the system descriptions have been requested from the client in a timely manner and once received, reviewing these to ensure that they have been adequately updated to reflect current year updated information, where relevant.
• Bank Confirmation Requests- this includes requesting a complete list of bank accounts in use from the audit engagement team and initiating the bank confirmation process.
• Administration support and minute taking as required.
• APT roll-forward - ensuring that the audit engagement team has granted access to the prior year APT and complete the APT roll-forward in terms of BDO methodology.
• Independence email - ensuring that the independence email confirmations sent by the audit engagement teams are responded to timeously.
• Independence Working Paper- ensuring that independence has been declared on the RER screen within APT. Should independence issues be noted, prompt escalation to the Project Supervisor is required.
• Uploading Documents on APT - ensure completed documents have been uploaded on APT. This includes any roll-forward documents required to be uploaded and the assigned tasks by the department. Ensuring that completed documents are signed off after the Junior Audit Manager has reviewed and queries have been cleared.
• Capturing - ensuring that capturing work assigned is completed timeously and within agreed deadlines. Issues noted during the capturing process should be communicated promptly to the Project Supervisor.

Qualifications And Experience

• A degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, Internal Audit or a related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Strict adherence to deadlines
• Ability to work in a diverse team
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, etc.)

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