Chief Advisor Auditing
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
Leadership
· Lead audit project teams
· Team player
· Motivating teams
· Coaching
Behavioral
· Integrity
· Objectivity
· Confidentiality
· Competency
· Professionalism
· Trustworthiness
· Honesty
Knowledge
· Assurance and advisory procedures and standards, including planning, techniques, tests and sampling methods involved in conducting assurance and advisory engagements and the requirements set forth in the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
· Business process analysis to identify inefficiencies, e.g. structure, workflow analysis, business risk management control strategies and bottleneck management.
· Risk-based planning methodology used by internal auditing, more specifically, the ability to plan, guide and monitor assurance and advisory engagements
· Principles, procedures and practices of operational, accounting and financial records and transactions.
· Risk, control and governance in organizations and how these relate to the work of internal audit.
· Internal control frameworks such as Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO), Enterprise Risk Management and Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT).
· Strategic business planning
· Understands and apply external benchmarks for assurance and advisory engagements.
· Understands and applies statistical models in audit procedures.
· Articulate the relevance of root causes and issues across assurance and advisory engagements and conduct trend analysis to determine the impact across the organization.
· Conduct full scope of assurance and advisory engagements according to the Institute of Internal Audit (IIA) standards
· Develop a three-year rolling risk-based internal audit plan.
· Data Analysis and keeping apprised of this changing landscape.
· Provide technical support for new developments
Skill
· Analytical
· Supervise diverse workforce professional and clerical employees
· Handle issues of a complex and sensitive nature
· Work under pressure circumstances
· Communicate clearly and effectively verbally and in writing
· Presentation
· Conflict management
· Develop and present persuasive arguments to address audit concerns.
· Specialist assurance and advisory
· Providing guidance on assurance and advisory assignments
· Transfer of skills
· Communicate at the senior management level
Key Responsibilities
· Oversee and perform activities related to auditing and reporting.
· Provide leadership and subject matter expertise.
· Manage customer relationships and communication.
· Assist with performance management and reportin
- Recommend and ensure the efficient deployment and utilization of resources
Minimum requirements
Qualification(s):
· B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Internal Audit/Commerce/ Information Technology/Computer Science/Safety Management/ Environmental Health Management/ Quality Management at NQF7 with 360 credits
Related Minimum Experience:
· 7 Years experience in Internal audit/information technology/quality/safety/health/
environmental/risk