Internal Auditor at Tantalizers PLC

Job Description

• The Internal Auditor contributes to and leads project reviews of financial, operational and compliance risks and control across business units from planning to final report issuance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the teams responsible for performing financial, operational, and compliance reviews across various business units and hotels.
• Execution of assigned projects on the department’s risk-based internal audit plan.
• Participate in detail testing of key financial controls.
• Conduct independent and objective assessments of internal controls, financial results, corporate processes, business operational and compliance requirements.
• Partner with management to develop corrective action plans in response to all internal audit observations and subsequent follow-ups to ensure closure.
• Help define departmental methodologies and deliverables in accordance with professional standards.
• Supervise and work with the audit team, including internal audit team members, guest auditors, and co-source service providers.
• Educate and advise management and process owners on accounting and internal control requirements.
• Interact regularly with process owners and senior management.
• Prepare draft audit programs, request listings, testing strategies, and other pre-audit planning activities aimed at ensuring an efficient and effective audit.
• Schedule and conduct meetings with management to describe audit objectives, coverage areas, timing, and protocols for concerns, changes and escalations.
• Coordinate travel plans and logistics for scheduled audits.
• Coordinate quarterly follow-up meetings and document action plan statuses based on discussion with respective management action plan owners.
• Build relationships with regional leadership to identify and mitigate property and corporate-level risks.
• Execute various aspects of assigned internal audit projects (planning, fieldwork, testing, work paper preparation, draft reporting, etc.).
• Plan and execute testing related to internal controls over financial reporting and hotel audits.
• Ensure timely project execution and project and work paper closure.
• Opportunities may exist to lead individual audit projects (based on level of experience).
• Execute internal audit projects, internal controls testing, and preparing work papers and reports in accordance with department and Institute of Internal Auditor (IIA) standards.
• Internal audits of the business activities, corporate, shared services, and other business areas.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an HND / B.Sc qualification with 5 - 15 years work experience