Chief Internal Auditor at Eta-Zuma Group W/A Limited

Job Responsibilities:

• Communicating with a variety of stakeholders across the company
• Compile and implement annual internal audit plan
• Carry out company-wide internal audit in accordance with annual audit objectives
• Hold opening and closing meetings with management.
• Manage resources and audit assignments.
• Challenging current processes across the company and identify opportunities for refinement.
• Reporting on control deficiencies to management and making recommendations to mitigate risk and add value.
• Play active role to developing, implementing, maintaining and reviewing of internal audit policies & procedures including ensuring they are up to date in accordance with international best practices.
• Implement best audit and business practices in line with applicable internal audit charter.
• Evaluate financial documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with regulations.
• Identifying financial record-keeping process that can be improved
• Determining ways to cut costs and improve profitability.
• Oversee risk-based audits covering operational and financial processes.
• Identifying significant risk areas of the business and through effective implementation and monitoring of controls, offer recommendation to reduce business and financial risks.
• Accessing the efficiency and productivity of staff at different levels in line to achieving the overall objectives of the company and making recommendations for improvements where there are gaps.
• Conduct ad hoc investigations into identified or reported risks.
• Make presentation of all findings in report form to the Management and BRAAC
• Engaging remediation of identified issues through follow-up

Competencies/ Requirements / Qualifications

•  Degree in Internal audit, Financial Accounting, Financial management, Economics or Business studies.
• An MBA in related disciple will be an advantage.
• Minimum 15 years’ work experience in an internal audit environment with 5 of them being in a senior role
• Certification with relevant internal audit or accounting bodies (IIA, CISA, ICAN, CITN, ACCA, CFA)
• Strong communication skill to work with all members of the organization
• High level inter personal skill
• Organizational, problem solving and business acumen skills
• Excellent attention to details to review large amount of data and numbers with ability to multi- task.
•  Exceptional mathematical and analytical skills to verify entries
• Good critical thinking skills to gather all the available data and make informed decisions
• Excellent research skills to find all related information needed
• Proficiency in accounting software and spreadsheets
• Presentation and report writing skills
• Willingness to travel for the purpose of the job.