Forvis Mazars Advisory Services is currently recruiting for an Internal Audit Senior in Internal Audit to join their dynamic, fast-growing team. The successful candidate should have the necessary internal audit skills, knowledge, and experience.
- Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress.
- Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes and organize own work such that important items get done first.
- Build strong internal relationships within Forvis Mazars and with other services across the organization.
- Research client industry, company structure, key customers and suppliers and possible insight into operations and the various processes
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
- Collaborate with the client to identify critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
- Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
- Drafting detailed audit programmes to test controls in place.
- Identify basic data analytic procedures.
- Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy, and validity thereof.
- Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
- Provide a coaching / mentoring role and review sections prepared by junior staff.
- Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.
- Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions
- Plan and execute risk-based internal audits;
- Provide consulting services to clients;
- Draft audit reports and present final findings to the client;
- Provide on the job coaching to internal auditors and trainees;
- Supervision of internal audit teams on multiple audits;
- Apply internal audit specific policies, procedures, methodologies and standards;
- Manage the delivery of each assignment in line with scope and limitations;
- Support the business in championing strategic business roles; and
- Build and maintain client relationships.
- CIA advantageous;
- Membership with IIA;
- Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree in Internal Auditing, Accounting, or a related field;
- 4 years’ experience in a consulting role in governance, risk, and compliance, of which 2 years’ must be in a senior auditor role;
- A thorough knowledge of IIA standards and best practices;
- Strong project management and multi-tasking skills;
- Proven ability to manage clients, teams and other relevant stakeholders;
- Knowledge of internal audit software tools and methodologies;
- Solid understanding of internal audit methodologies, risk and control frameworks (e.g. COSO, IIA Standards), and end-to-end audit execution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging directly with senior client management (CFOs, GMs, Heads of Function) during fieldwork and findings discussions
- Proven internal audit experience within financial services environments (e.g. asset management, banking, insurance, fintech, healthcare, or multi-site operational environments)
