Senior Internal Auditor: Insights & Assurance at BKB Ltd

About the Risk, Insights & Assurance Function

• Internal audit at BKB is being built as a modern, data-led function — organised around two streams that work together. The Continuous Monitoring stream provides ongoing, branch-level and operational assurance through dashboards, exception reporting, and pattern detection.
• The Analytics stream delivers cyclical audits of business cycles, subsidiaries, and entity-level controls through population-based testing, data-led methodology, and analytical depth that goes beyond traditional sample-based audit work. The function also carries out investigations across both streams when control breakdowns produce specific events — going into the circumstances of a specific incident to understand what really happened and why.
• This vacancy is aligned to the Analytics stream. We are looking for someone who will thrive in a function that values diagnostic insight as much as assurance — someone who genuinely enjoys interrogating data, spotting patterns, and using analytical rigour to surface what the business could not see on its own.

Key Purpose of the Role

• The Senior Internal Auditor: Insights & Assurance leads end-to-end audit engagements within the Analytics stream — from scoping and risk assessment through to fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.
• The role brings technical depth, analytical capability, and the professional judgement to navigate complex audit work independently. It also reviews the work of junior team members, mentors trainees and Internal Auditors, and contributes meaningfully to the function's methodology, coverage strategy, and continuous improvement.

What this role offers

• This role offers something quite specific — the chance to work as an internal audit professional in a function that has deliberately built its approach around depth, data, and diagnostic insight.
• We interrogate the processes, controls, and operations that produce the numbers. We work with full populations of data rather than samples where the data supports it. We frame findings around root cause and systemic pattern, not isolated incidents. We use analytics, exception reporting, and dashboards to see patterns the business cannot see on its own. And we sit close enough to the business to understand why something is happening, not just what is happening.
• The role gives you the space to develop expertise that is difficult to build elsewhere — practical fluency in data-led audit methodology, direct exposure to how a diversified agricultural business actually operates, cross-stream work across continuous monitoring and analytics, meaningful investigation work when control breakdowns require root-cause understanding, and the opportunity to help shape a function that is actively evolving.
• A candidate who is curious about how a business works underneath the numbers, who enjoys interrogating data patterns methodically, and who is energised by a team that is actively building something will find this the right place.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting Science, Internal Auditing, or equivalent.
• Completed professional designation: CA (SA), CIA, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum 3 years' relevant audit experience, including completion of external audit articles or an equivalent professional training programme.
• Demonstrated capability in independent audit delivery, with exposure to data-led audit methodology.
• Understanding of the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and modern internal audit methodology.
• Experience in the agricultural or retail industry is beneficial but not required.
• Availability to travel.

Data and Analytical Capability (a strong preference for this role)

The Analytics stream's methodology is built on interrogating full populations of data rather than samples. The successful candidate will bring, or grow into, the following:

• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, complex formulas, and large-dataset manipulation.
• Practical experience with SQL (Microsoft SQL Server preferably), Alteryx, or an equivalent data analysis / logic tool. Alteryx and similar drag-and-drop tools count — what we look for is the ability to apply logic and reasoning to data, not necessarily coding from scratch.
• Openness to learning or developing Python skills for audit analytics over time.
• Experience with any other data analysis or logic tool (ACL, IDEA, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent) will be advantageous.
• Genuine curiosity about data trends, anomalies, and patterns — combined with the discipline to interrogate them methodically rather than accept surface-level explanations.
• An analytical mindset that reaches for root cause rather than symptom, and that frames findings around systemic patterns rather than isolated incidents.

Competencies

• Detail orientation — meticulous, methodical, and thorough. The role requires the discipline to interrogate data carefully and follow trails to their conclusion.
• Analytical thinking, with the ability to work through complex datasets and identify patterns that matter to the business.
• Big-picture orientation and business understanding.
• Stakeholder engagement and clear communication.
• Report writing and structured presentation of findings.
• Assertiveness — the ability to hold the line on difficult findings while remaining constructive.
• Mentoring and supportive coaching of junior team members.
• Openness to change and continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end audit engagements within the Analytics stream — scoping, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.
• Design audit approach and test plans, with population-based and data-led methods used wherever practical.
• Perform fieldwork to a high technical standard, gathering and documenting evidence in line with the function's methodology.
• Interrogate data trends and anomalies methodically to identify systemic patterns and root causes rather than isolated control issues.
• Review the working papers and findings of Internal Auditors and Graduate Trainees before submission to the Manager.
• Present findings and lead engagement discussions with management, holding the line on difficult findings while remaining constructive.
• Contribute actively to the function's coverage thinking and methodology development.
• Mentor and support Internal Auditors and Graduate Trainees, particularly on data-led methodology.
• Adhere to the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and maintain independence and objectivity at all times.

Remuneration: Market-related package. Candidates are asked to indicate their remuneration expectations on application.

Closing Date 30 September 2026