Lorache Consulting - Our client, a leading manufacturing company in Lagos needs the services of an Internal Auditor.
Job Title: Internal Auditor
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
- Participates in the audit planning process, including risk-rating auditable activities, identifying new auditable activities, and proposing an appropriate time budget for each audit.
- Aligns audit objectives and scope of work to strategic business objectives with a flexible and adaptive audit approach.
- Works independently in the execution of audits and other related projects inclusive of Documenting, Assessing, Testing and Reporting on process environments.
- Plans the scope of work and monitors progress on audit projects, ensuring quality audit work within defined budget.
- Applies and assesses financial reporting impact based on knowledge of Accounting Principles
- Monitors business activity and industry trends, emerging issues, audit enabling tools/resources, and applies best practices where applicable with respect to department
- development and improvement.
- Reviews and writes risk assessments and develops audit programs.
- Acts in a lead capacity on complex and high-risk audits/special projects with assigned resources and fosters efficient, innovative and team-oriented work environments.
- Provides audit deliverables inclusive of, but not limited to, creating process flow documents, performing detailed test work, and summarizing results in work papers.
- Documents and recommends opportunities for improvement and draft audit reports.
- Develops and maintains ongoing issue tracking and action plan resolution.
- Assists on special projects and investigations, as needed.
- Identifies and develops best practices within Internal Audit in coordination with business process owners.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; CIA, CPA and/or MBA preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in financial (external) or operational/process (internal) auditing or advisory-related services.
- Comparable experience in a Supply Chain or Manufacturing environment preferred.
- Combination of public accounting and private accounting/auditing-related services, consulting, risk management, and/or business advisory/consulting experiences a plus.
- Application, pre-implementation, assessment and advisory experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with financial reporting and consolidation processes/systems.
- Comprehensive understanding of auditing business processes and strategic objectives through assessing the existence and effectiveness of risks and related internal controls.
- Demonstrated strong history of teamwork, integrity and leadership.
- Demonstrated practical knowledge or application of the COSO framework and Sarbanes Oxley.
- Demonstrated understanding of the current corporate governance issues facing global companies.
- Strong knowledge of MS Office products, particularly MS Access, with solid experience using data analysis to facilitate the audit process.
- Strong written (including issue and report writing) and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to develop relationships within the organization and quickly grasp issues.
Remuneration
Very attractive
Application Closing Date
17th September, 2014
Method of application
Interested candidates should forward their application to:
[email protected]