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Date Posted: Thursday, April 18 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Summary
The Internal Auditor will work next to the Financial Controller and is responsible for ensuring sound internal control environment, making sure (internal) accounting procedures, and other regulatory and contractual compliances are followed correctly on all company locations

Tasks and Duties:
• Ensuring that laid down internal controls and other procedures are followed, to ensure a sound internal control environment withing the company: maintaining the internal control framework.
• Conducting routine examination of the accounting records to ascertain the records are properly kept and accurately recorded, proper classification has been observed and that the available financial data are reliable.
• Ensure that there is compliance with established policies, procedures, sound business practices, controls, and other regulations and contractual obligations.
• Review of measures for safeguarding assets and inventories.
• Checks accuracy of bank reconciliation.
• Preparation of annual audit program, indicating the main focus areas of the audit (and why), timeline, and subsequent execution of audit programs.
• Carry out systems audit, and evaluate the adequacy of the system internal controls.
• Investigate reported occurrences of frauds, embezzlement, theft and waste of any kind of company assets.
• Perform risks assessments, and risk analysis on various accounting cycles.
• Advises on best use of company resources.
• Makes follow-up of previous internal audit observations, and improvement plans.
• Preparation of the internal audit reports (based on the executed tasks) to the Managing Director and Group Internal Auditor.
• Advises managing directors on improvements on the internal organization and procedures.
• Strong awareness and focus on fraud risks.
• Assists in closing the financial year-end, by supporting the External Auditor, and Financial Controller on the statutory year-end audit.
• Helps to improve business and internal control framework.
• Participates in preparation of various Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Thorough skills of Excel to perform data-analytics.

Scope of the position:
• Financial audit
• IT audits, including information security.
• Operational audit, and creation of standards operating procedures, for instance on purchasing.
• Risk assessments and risk analysis.
• Forensic investigations on fraud, embezzlement etc.

Requirements
Qualifications and Experience:
• CPA; Bachelor of Commerce (BCom): major in Accountancy, preferably from the University of Dar es Salaam or Mzumbe University.
• 5+ years’ experience at (one of the) big 4 Audit Firms.
• Preferably experience in handling fraud investigations.
• Preferably experience with IT audits.
• Fluent in English.
• Has managerial duties or managerial role, with the ability to work independently.

Personality
• Proactive
• Strong ethical values.
• Trustworthy and reliable.
• Strong personality, with a convincing attitude
• Able to build strong relationships.
• Balanced between trust and control.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Communicates verbally and written in a concise, able to advise in a helpful way.
• Able to work independently and able to report to the Group Internal Auditor and to the Managing Director.
• Able to be a sparring partner for the Managing Director Finance/HR.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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