Senior Internal Audit Lead – Risk, Controls & Insight

Neptune; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 750,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars Advisory Services is seeking an Internal Audit Senior to join its dynamic team in internal audit. The role focuses on leading engagement tasks, testing controls, conducting data analytics, and mentoring junior staff.

The successful candidate will build strong client relationships, identify risks in business processes, and draft audit programmes to test controls, reporting findings to senior management.

Qualifications

• Experience in internal audit within professional services or industry.
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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 Forvis Mazars and with other services across the organization.
• Research client industry, company structure, key customers and suppliers and possible insight into operations and the various processes
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Collaborate with the client to identify critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
• Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
• Drafting detailed audit programmes to test controls in place.
• Identify basic data analytic procedures.
• Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy, and validity thereof.
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• 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 escalation potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions

Skills

Teamwork

Task management

Relationship building

Industry research

Client liaison

Collaboration

Risk identification

Audit programmes

Data analytics

Controls testing

Working papers

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Risk escalation

Job description

Forvis Mazars Advisory Services is seeking an Internal Audit Senior to join its dynamic team in internal audit. The role focuses on leading engagement tasks, testing controls, conducting data analytics, and mentoring junior staff.

The successful candidate will build strong client relationships, identify risks in business processes, and draft audit programmes to test controls, reporting findings to senior management.