Job Summary
Responsibilities
As a Qualified Audit Senior, you will play a pivotal role in leading and executing audit engagements for our clients, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, regulations, and company policies.
- Audit Planning and Execution: Lead and manage audit engagements, ensuring compliance with auditing standards and firm policies. Plan audit procedures, identify key risks, and develop appropriate audit programs.
- Financial Statement Analysis: Analyze and interpret financial statements, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data. Evaluate accounting treatments, disclosures, and compliance with accounting principles.
- Risk Assessment and Internal Controls: Identify and assess risks within client organizations. Evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Client Interaction: Build strong relationships with clients, acting as a primary point of contact during the audit process. Address client queries and concerns in a professional and timely manner.
- Team Management: Supervise and mentor junior audit team members, providing guidance and feedback to ensure high-quality work and professional development.
- Audit Report Preparation: Prepare comprehensive and clear audit reports, communicating audit findings, recommendations, and areas for improvement to clients and senior management.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure audits are conducted in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and accounting standards.
- Continuous Professional Development: Stay updated with changes in auditing standards, regulations, and industry best practices. Engage in continuous learning and professional development activities.
- Technology Integration: Utilize audit software and data analytics tools to enhance audit efficiency and effectiveness.
- Quality Control: Participate in firm-wide quality control processes to maintain high audit standards and adherence to best practices.
- Project Management: Manage multiple audit engagements concurrently, meeting deadlines and budget requirements.
- Client Advisory: Provide proactive advisory services to clients on financial reporting and accounting matters.
- Ethical Conduct: Uphold the highest ethical standards in handling sensitive financial information and maintaining client confidentiality.
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate with other departments within the firm, such as tax and advisory, to provide comprehensive client services.
Experience, skills or qualifications required
- 1-3 years post-article experience (External Audit)
- Qualified CA(SA) – Completed ITC and APC
- Must have experience in the full audit cycle within the Private sector experience.
- Experience working within a team on external audit assignments from planning to fieldwork and completion stages under International Standards on Auditing
- Ability to work (with training) with other key software such as Caseware (Audit and Accounts software), Inflo and Datasnipper (Data Analytics)
- Motivated to take responsibility of the role and maintain a high level of quality service across
- Sound knowledge of accounting and auditing concepts and aware of own limitations and when to ask for assistance
Key Competencies
- Approachable for more junior members of staff and able to build trust with the wider audit team and clients.
- Positive and has a can-do attitude.
- Communicates clearly with team members and clients as to status of jobs.
- Takes responsibility for the completion of assignments and tasks delegated to them. Able to work independently.
- Can prioritise in order to meet deadlines and builds a reputation for reliability.
- Thinking creatively to improve performance and efficiency.
- Keen to learn and develop at all times.
- Ability to provide fast and intuitive analysis; correctly interpreting data, including financial statements and source documents.
- Demonstration of the ability to effectively manage the audit process with appropriate consideration of audit risk issues and accounting technical matters.