Internal Audit Supervisor

**Finance**
**JHB North**
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**JOB OUTLINE**

**INTERNAL AUDIT SUPERVISOR**

**PERMANENT POSITION**

**JOHANNESBURG NORTH**

**Department** - Internal Audit

**Reports to** - Internal Audit Manager

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Fulfillment of an internal audit plan
- Assessing and understanding business processes to identify key controls and risks
- Understanding risks and related audit objectives
- Prepare audit planning memo through input from business stakeholders
- Verify audit objectives through communication with business stakeholders
- Prepare process maps to document key business processes, procedures and controls using experience to identify process improvement opportunities for the business under review and understand audit procedures
- Identify and measure risk and evaluate controls
- Document an audit program from key controls identified in risk and control matrix
- Perform audits for a variety of areas in our business including analysing our operations to ensure compliance with company procedures, evaluating our internal controls to ensure risks are reduced, ensuring the reliability of our financial reports, and putting effective asset protection measures in place
- Conduct internal audits through fieldwork and sample testing to review adequacy and effectiveness of controls
- Ability to take an audit from cradle to grave with no manager involvement
- Completion of IIA compliant working papers using the Internal Audit Methodology
- Design and implement process improvements
- Perform audits that identify control and regulatory compliance deficiencies, as well as enhance policies and procedure manuals.
- Producing quality internal audit reports with value adding recommendations
- Build, maintain and manage professional relationships with management.
- Negotiating and agreeing on audit findings with client
- Ability to table reports to an audit committee
- Supervision and review of junior staff’s audit work

**Experience/Skills Required**:

- Minimum 5 years audit experience
- Output driven with mínimal supervision
- Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or peoples understanding
- Giving presentations
- Adapting to a major organisational change
- Adapting behaviour to meet major changes at work
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / subordinates / managers
- Identifying business risks
- Effective report writing skills
- Advanced Excels skills for data analytics
- Demonstrated ability to deal with difficult customers
- Ability to hold difficult conversations
- Problem solving skills

**Qualifications**:

- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA); or
- Chartered Accountant CA(SA)

**Behavioural Competencies**

**COGNITIVE COMPETENCIES**
- Ability to manage stakeholders
- Able to work under pressure
- Ability to analyse
- Able to challenge payment/s if contrary to Regulations and policies
- Able to interrogate information and raise/escalate for further attention where necessary

**INTRAPERSONAL COMPETENCIES**
- Excellence/ Quality Orientation
- Ethical Judgement
- Resilience and Stress Management
- Drive and Results Orientation
- Time and Self-Management

**INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCIES**
- Building Relationships
- Interpersonal Agility
- Teamwork

**COMMUNICATION COMPETENCIES**
- Verbal and written communication

**FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES**
- Commercial and Financial Acumen
- Research Competence
- Organisational Awareness
- Process and Technological Competence
- Mathematical Acumen