Senior Internal Auditor (2585) at The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• An Honours degree in Internal Auditing at an NQF Level 8 or a BTech degree in Internal Auditing
• At least five years’ experience as a Senior Auditor in a public sector.
• Must be a Certified Internal Auditor

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Ability to assume an advisory role to management
• Solid knowledge of mentoring and coaching
• Solid knowledge of report writing
• Solid experience in knowledge of PFMA and Treasury regulations.
• Solid knowledge of professional standards (IIA)
• Knowledge of Risk Management/Corporate Governance/Internal Control Systems
• Knowledge of Data Analysis
• Knowledge in Project Management
• Knowledge of Research/Benchmarking
• Ability to learn and apply best practice frameworks e.g. COSO, PMBOK etc.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Audit Planning

• Participate in the development of the annual audit plan.
• Obtain and analyse information from clients to plan engagements.
• Drafts engagement letters.
• Conduct risk and control assessment of assigned department or functional area in established/required timeline.
• Perform walk through procedures to test controls.
• Develop audit programme in the planning phase, including the need for and use of questionnaires, flowcharts and other instruments for information analysis.
• Discuss the engagement letter with the client in the opening meeting.

Audit Execution

• Source relevant information required for analysis and testing.
• Evaluate the suitability of internal control design and make recommendations on findings.
• Conducts audit testing of specified area and identify reportable issues and dimension of risk.
• Follows up on the status of action plans as agreed with management in line with follow up
• procedures.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: (continue)

Audit Reporting

• Decides on weaknesses and areas of improvement to report to management.
• Draft audit findings and draft report about needed improvements in the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of controls, risk and governance of audit areas.
• Discuss the draft report with client in the closing meeting.

Audit Project Quality

Review internal auditors and/or audit team outputs (quality assurance).

• Ensure that policies, procedures and guidelines, which impact on auditing, are clearly
• understood, while determining the level of internal compliance in terms of quality assurance
• standards (IIA) in line with Internal Audit methodology.

Auditee / Engagement Management

• Effectively engage and communicate with auditee, audit team, other stakeholders and Internal Audit management.
• Ensure that internal audit activities are effectively coordinated with other assurance providers through the agreement of a time bound combined assurance model, including internal and external audit, risk management, forensics and compliance functions.

People Management

• Provide functional/technical support, advice and guidance and assist in transfer of skills to audit staff
• Manage own and staff productivity and deliverables in effective manner and assume a supervisory role
• Instruct subordinates on tasks and/or activities.