Senior Auditor

Audit Senior

Job Summary:

The Senior Auditor participates in and leads staff on audit engagements, and is afforded the opportunity to undertake more challenging assignments, clients, staff responsibilities relating to auditing procedures.

Salary & Benefits will be commensurate with experience.

Major Responsibilities & Duties:

• Lead client audit engagements, which include planning executing, directing, and completing financial audits.
• Begin to develop generally accepted accounting principles and IFRS accounting and reporting rules, where applicable, and financial statement presentation.
• Obtain a thorough understanding of IFRS and generally accepted auditing standards and common audit procedures and techniques.
• Supervise, train and mentor associates and interns on audit process.
• Research and analyse financial statement and audit related issues.
• Acquire a working knowledge of the client’s business
• Proactively interact with key client’s management to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.
• Perform other job related duties as necessary.

Requirements & Qualifications:

The successful candidate will possess the following basic requirements:

• Excellent project management, analytical, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership, training, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment
• Professionalism, dependability, integrity and trustworthiness combined with a cooperative attitude.
• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to multitask and complete assignments within time constraints and deadlines.
• Dedicated to superior client service.
• Strong organisational skill and attention to detail.

The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications:

• ACCA /CA /CPA
• An advanced degree is highly desirable, but not mandatory
• Minimum of 3 years recent work experience as an auditor at a public accounting firm, demonstrating a progression in complexity of auditing and accounting tasks.
• Proficiency in CASEWARE and Microsoft Office programs, including MS Excel and Word.