Position summary

Industry: Auditing/Accounting

Job category: Internal Auditing

Location: Cape Town

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market-related

EE position: No

Introduction

The Senior Audit Specialist performs a key function in executing risk-based inner audits throughout company functions, helping the assurance agenda, and imparting value-adding insights to beautify governance, chance management, and inside controls. The function focuses on complicated audits in areas such as Supply Chain, Product, Finance, HR, IT, Legal, Procurement, and Compliance, in alignment with the retail group’s strategic objectives.

Job description

1)     Audit Planning and Execution

·       Contribute to the improvement of the Internal Audit strategic diagram with the aid of presenting enter on key hazard areas, rising issues, and enterprise insights applicable to the audit universe.

·       Conduct risk-based audits throughout company departments in line with the annual audit plan.

·       Develop audit scopes, objectives, and applications aligned to strategic, operational, and regulatory risks.

·       Perform end-to-end audit fieldwork, along with manipulate testing, information analysis, and proof evaluation.

·       Apply quintessential wondering and structured problem-solving strategies to operate thorough root reason evaluation thereby figuring out systemic, process, or manage screw ups contributing to dangers or deficiencies

·       Ensure audits are delivered efficiently,

·        on time, and inside first-class standards.

·       Apply agile concepts and methodologies in planning, executing, and reporting audit engagements to beautify responsiveness, collaboration, and fee delivery.

2)     Reporting and Communication

·       Draft clear, concise, and insightful audit reviews with sensible recommendations.

·       Present findings to auditees and administration and have interaction in positive discussions to unravel issues.

·       Track agreed administration movements to closure and operate follow-up audits as necessary.

3)     Stakeholder Engagement

·       Build robust working relationships with key enterprise stakeholders to apprehend enterprise processes, risks, and changes.

·       Provide advisory enter for the duration of commercial enterprise initiatives or projects, the place appropriate, besides compromising independence.

·       Maintain normal conversation with different interior and exterior assurance carriers inclusive of GRC and External Audit

4)     Risk and Control Insight

·       Stay knowledgeable about rising dangers and developments in company governance, retail operations, and technology.

·       Identify possibilities to decorate threat administration and operational effectivity throughout functions.

·       Contribute to thematic critiques or different assignments as required.

5)     Quality and Continuous Improvement

·       Ensure adherence to Internal Audit methodology, requirements (e.g. IIA Standards), and crew policies.

·       Provide insights and pointers to enhance furnish chain performance, decrease price inefficiencies, and decorate manipulate environment.

·       Participate in peer critiques and make a contribution to best assurance initiatives.

·       Contribute to the non-stop enchancment of audit methodology, tools, and statistics analytics capabilities.

·       Recommend technique enhancements to beautify audit effectivity and commercial enterprise value.

·       Keep abreast of tendencies in provide chain management, auditing standards, and retail enterprise excellent practices.

Minimum requirements

·       Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Internal Audit, Finance, or a associated field.

·       Professional certification desired (e.g. CIA, CA(SA), CSCP).

·       Postgraduate diploma in interior auditing or hazard administration is advantageous.

·       5–7 years of inner or exterior audit experience, with at least 2–3 years focusing on grant chain or retail operations.

·       Experience in auditing head workplace features (e.g., logistics, warehousing, stock management, finance, HR, procurement, legal, IT).

·       Strong information of furnish chain tactics in a retail environment.

·       Experience the use of audit software program (e.g. TeamMate, ACL, IDEA, or records analytics tools) preferred.

·       Demonstrated trip working with primary ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or equal platforms.

Prior publicity to retail operations and corporation hazard administration frameworks is a plus

·       Technical Expertise: Strong information of corporate governance, inner controls, monetary reporting, procurement, and/or compliance frameworks.

·       Analytical Thinking: Ability to analyse massive facts sets, become aware of patterns, and draw significant conclusions.

·       Risk & Control Mindset: Understand manipulate design, effectiveness, and danger publicity in a dynamic grant chain.

·       Collaboration: Ability to work nicely in cross-functional groups and control stakeholder relationships.

·       Commercial Acumen: Understand the retail commercial enterprise mannequin and the strategic significance of provide chain efficiency.

·       Communication: Excellent record writing and verbal conversation capabilities tailor-made to quite a number audiences.

·       Stakeholder Management: Ability to construct have confidence and have an effect on throughout one of a kind degrees of the business.

·       Professional Judgement: Applies sound judgment in assessing dangers and formulating recommendations.

·      Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving retail environment.

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