Review Consultant at BDO South Africa

• The Review Consultant will work as part of a dedicated team, performing day to day residential service charge work autonomously and at a high quality, managing client specific projects to achieve client KPIs. The Review Consultant takes significant responsibility for management of the client and supporting team, reporting directly to the Manager. They will have primary responsibility for ensuring that input, output and project management are of the highest quality.

Key Performance Areas

Initial examination of client review accounts, dependent on scope of work.

• Executing review procedures to meet the required objective and address the review risks identified, including substantive testing of accounts, test of controls and substantive analytics.
• Documenting all work performed and findings on working papers using audit software.
• Evaluating compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and other relevant statutory requirements (e.g. Companies Act, Income Tax Act, VAT Act).
• All other execution of specific audit work tailored to various entities as well as the mandatory sections as required by ISA's.
• Reviewing and concluding on client responses to the review queries and adjustments and following up on outstanding issues by phone, email and in person.
• Preparation of accountants’ or auditors’ reports, dependent on scope of work.
• Preparation of client required schedules – both internal and those to be issued with draft reports.
• Liaising with clients as needed, dealing with issues which may arise, escalating to Experienced Seniors/Managers as required.
• Clearing Experienced Seniors/Managers / Director review points.
• Supporting the Experienced Seniors, Managers / Director
• Having technical knowledge of the area of work.
• Maintain awareness of risk and deliver high quality documents.
• Ad hoc administration tasks for the review team.

Qualifications And Experience

• Diploma in Accounting or Internal Auditing
• 2 years work experience

Competency Requirements

• Project management skills (Preferred)
• Emotional intelligence
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player
• Self motivated
• Ability to cope under pressure and achieve deadlines