Internal Auditor (Centurion) at AVBOB South Africa

Description

• You will be working for a company that is over 100 years old with strong values, which are customer centric. In return for your services, you will be paid a competitive package, which includes pension fund contributions and a medical aid allowance. You will have access to personal services through the employee assistance program and wellness programs. You will be working for an organization that values employee development and rewards excellent performance.
• Establish objectives for each engagement and conduct a preliminary assessment of the risks relevant to the activity under review.
• Develop work programmes to address the engagement objectives and consider the probability of significant errors, irregularities, non-compliance and other exposures.
• Identify engagement objectives that address risks, controls and governance processes agreed with the client
• Formulate a scope that is sufficient to satisfy the objectives of the engagement and include consideration of relevant systems records and personnel
• Identify internal controls to achieve the Group’s key initiatives and objectives. Controls can prevent loss of resources, including capital assets, inventory, proprietary information, and cash.
• Review the existing policies and procedures and/or circulars to verify that internal controls are adequate and effective, or working as intended in order to achieve the control objectives.
• Review existing Legislation/Regulation to ensure compliance with applicable laws.
• Identify and assess the risks that have direct bearing on the procedures in order to gather evidence in support of the audit opinion.
• Identify, analyse, evaluate and record information taking into account the risk assessment.
• Adjust outdated audit programs accordingly
• Compile a report on exceptions that are material, in the format as programmed in TeamMate.
• Follow-up on the report to determine if issues raised were resolved.

Requirements

• Three year’s tertiary qualification in Internal Auditing or Accounting.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years internal auditing experience. 
• Studying towards a CIA
• Experience in the Insurance or financial services industry.
• Intermediate level of proficiency relating to the MS Office Suite (in particular MS Word and PowerPoint). Advance MS Excel skills.
• Knowledge of TeamMate and Caseware IDEA software will be an advantage.
• Communication-listening, written and oral expression.
• Able to command and control meetings with auditee.
• Time management.
• Decision-making.
• Problem solving skills.
• Judgement and decision making.
• Must be able to work with minimum supervision.
• Auditing aptitude.
• Analytical.