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Specification
- The purpose of the role is to provide administrative support to the audit department as well as to be responsible for coordinating all trainee related activities to ensure the smooth running of the training office.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Processing purchase orders
- Capture travel and expense claims for Partners where required
- Invoicing
- Correspondence and communication with clients, suppliers and staff
- PowerPoint presentations
- Bank confirmations
- Windeed Searches
- CRM process for new Clients
- Timesheet management
- Work in progress management
- Collating and preparing reports
- Organizing internal and external meetings including arranging room bookings, equipment and catering needs
- Prepare documentation such as agenda, presentations for meetings and word / excel documents and minute taking
- Create and maintain filing system & printing as requested
- Ad hoc administration
- Assisting with PA duties when required
- Registration of new Trainees onto the TCMS system
- Managing the TCMS dashboard. This includes liaising with trainees if they need to manage their dashboards.
- Tracking and Reporting on core hours for the trainees.
- Ensure that the coaching schedule is updated and maintained.
- Preparing and filing all attendance registers for events and training.
- Payment of all IRBA, SAICA, LTS Invoices.
- Ensure accuracy of the LTS billing summary.
- Ensure the LTS compliance is achieved by trainees and Managers regarding performance records.
- Ensure proper coordination of board courses.
- Ensure proper records are kept for registration of trainees for board Courses.
- Manage performance and growth conversations between managers and trainees
- Assist in the preparation of Increase schedules for the trainees.
- Collate all information pertaining to SAICA re-accreditation process
- Keeping accurate information for Trainee qualifications and their academic progression
- Timeously informing the People and culture department on any contracts due for termination.
- Assist with the discharging of trainees on TCMS.
Requirements
Qualification:
- Business Administration Diploma or equivalent
Experience:
- Minimum of 2 year’s experience in administration
- Experience in a professional services environment
Competencies:
- Excellent communication skills (Verbal and written)
- Excellent internal and external stakeholder relationship management
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and work well under pressure
- Quality and detail oriented
- Maintaining excellent client focus
- Excellent Computer Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
- Team player
- Good time-management skills
The appointment will be made in terms of the firm’s Employment Equity Policy. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Job Closing Date:17/11/2020
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Introduction
At BDO, we believe in investing in our people to help them grow, both professionally and personally. The foundation of our business is strong relationship, with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders and we work hard every day to make this a reality. Our commitment is to create unlimited growth by giving our people continuous opportunities. BDO Johannesburg has a vacancy for a Junior IT Audit Manager in our Financial Services Technology Division. BDO’s global organisation extends across 167 countries and territories, with 88,120 people working out of 1,617 offices – and we’re all working towards one goal: to provide our clients with exceptional service. Our firms across the organisation cooperate closely and comply with consistent operating principles and quality standards.
The Junior Manager will be joining an exciting new Financial Services division within BDO and should be able to identify key IT risks related to financial reporting and thereafter key controls in order to develop innovative audit solutions. These solutions cater to the specific IT risks facing businesses within the Financial Services Industry, in addition to new IT risks, which are emerging as a result of exponential technologies such as machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics. The Junior Manager will also oversee and ensure that projects run efficiently and profitably from inception to sign-off by managing all the relevant stakeholders in accordance with the Firm's policies and procedures. The Junior Manager further supports the seniors with clients' commercial management and business development initiatives.
Specification
- The Junior IT Audit Manager will inter alia be responsible for:
- Information Technology General Controls
- Application Controls
- Assess the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of transaction processing
- Good understanding of client's environments and identifying Risks and Controls
- Maintaining a relationship with the financial audit team and keeping them up to date on the progress of work
- Mentoring and coaching junior staff
- Review of all work related to IT assignments
- Having an in depth understanding of IT risk management, IT governance concepts and best practice frameworks
- Participate in proposal development as and when required
- Participate in training efforts
- Compiling engagement letters and budgeting
- COBIT, ITIL, ISO27000-2 and other models is advantageous
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bcom Internal Audit
- Bcom Information Systems/Informatics
- BSc Computer Science
- BA Information Management
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification is advantageous
- The candidate should have experience working at clients in the Financial Services Industry.
- 3 years working experience in Internal Audit, IT Audit, IT Advisory or Forensics.
Job Requirements:
- Knowledge of the Financial Services Industry
- Communication (Verbal and Written) and negotiation skills
- Personal Development (Emotional Intelligence / Continuous Development)
- Relationship Management (Building successful teams)
- Growing the Business (Entrepreneurial spirit / Looking for Business)
- Client Focus (Planning, organising and control)
- Socially aware and able to work as part of a diverse team
- Ability to plan, organise and control
- Client focussed
Key Performance Areas:
Business Development:
- Assist in generating new client leads by using different tools and platforms e.g. networking, client base analysis; diversifying from a current project
- Assist with new client research and presentation
- Participate in special assignment as and when required
- Timeous and accurate billing of clients, using fee arrangement letters
Operations and Processes:
Planning:
- Timeously host the pre-audit meeting and ensure that the planning meeting is set up
- Ensure that the planning is signed off before commencement of the audit
- Prepare detailed time budgets, allocating the work to specific team members
- Assign staff to engagements, determine the number of staff and the level of experience required, thereby ensuring that the project is adequately staffed
- Communication of deadlines and budget to staff
- Liaison with client and preparation of the schedule of audit requirements.
Execution:
- Oversee and ensure that all the project activities comply with the firm's policies and procedures
- Perform a review on all sections in the file
- Perform the function of principal client contact
- Manage client relationship and ensure that all queries are solved timeously
- Decide on appropriateness of audit opinion by resolving issues which might impact on the audit opinion and ensuring that these are brought to the attention of seniors and documentation thereof
- Review timesheets and problem areas for individuals
- Manage and ensure that the project is delivered within the scope agreed on
- Review the work-in-progress and discuss with senior for action.
- Ultimate responsibility for bringing tasks/ objectives to completion, sign-off and archiving in conjunction with the Engagement Partner
- Attend and facilitate wrap-up meetings
- Negotiate overruns, underruns and budgets
- Provide adequate on the job training, counselling and evaluation
People Development, Learning and Growth:
- Timeous completion of workings once completed by the trainee
- Build relationships with the trainee
- Mentoring of trainees and seniors when required
- Assist and/ or lead 1 or more BDO FS and FST’s pillars
Admin
- Be responsible for staff movements on and off the job (approval of leave) and timeously communicate to all relevant parties.
- Ensure that the files for archiving are done
The appointment will be made in terms of the firm’s Employment Equity Policy. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Job Closing Date:19/11/2020
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INTRODUCTION
- At BDO, we believe in investing in our people to help them grow, both professionally and personally. The foundation of our business is strong relationship, with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders and we work hard every day to make this a reality. Our commitment is to create unlimited growth by giving our people continuous opportunities and our client's unparalleled support.
SPECIFICATION
- The Audit Manager oversees and ensures that the project runs efficiently and profitably from inception to sign-off by managing all the relevant stakeholders in accordance with the Firm's policies and procedures. The Audit Manager further supports the Engagement Partner with clients' commercial management and business development initiatives.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:
Business Development:
- Assist in generating new client leads by using different tools and platforms e.g. networking, client base analysis; diversifying from a current project
- Assist with new client research, presentation and pitch preparation
- Participate in special assignment as and when required
Finance - WIP
- Managing WIP and write offs
- Timeous and accurate billing of clients, using fee arrangement letters in liaison with the partner
- Timeous follow up on fee queries
- Assistance with Debtors when requested
- Negotiating budgets/fees and overuns for clients once fee base has been agreed with the partner
Operations and Processes:
- Planning
- Timeously host the pre-audit meeting and ensure that the planning meeting is set up
- Ensure that the audit planning is signed off before commencement of the audit
- Prepare detailed time budgets, allocating the audit work to specific audit team members
- Communication of deadlines and budget to staff
- Assign staff to the audit engagement, determine the number of staff and the level of experience required, thereby ensuring that the project is adequately staffed
- Liaison with client and preparation of the schedule of audit requirements
Execution
- Oversee and ensure that all the project activities comply with the firm's policies and procedures
- Perform a review on all sections in the file
- On larger assignments perform full entity general review of lower risk subsidiaries
- Perform function of principal client contact and take full responsibility for the client relationship management and ensure that all queries are solved timeously
- Decide on audit appropriateness of audit opinion by resolving issues which might impact on the audit opinion and ensuring that these are brought to the attention of the engagement partner and documentation thereof
- Manage the project timelines and ensure that allocated resources are efficiently used (review timesheets to ascertain this and to also detect problem areas for individuals
- Manage the client and ensure that the project is delivered within the scope agreed on
- Review the work-in-progress and discuss with Partner for action. Prepare the audit efficiency checklist
- Ultimate responsibility for bringing audit to completion, sign-off and archiving in conjunction with the Engagement Partner
- Review the draft financial statements and ensure that they are IFRS complaint
- Ensure that an appropriate audit report is drafted
- Ensure that matters for Partners attention and Overs/Unders schedules have been prepared and discussed with the Partner and that the Partner has signed off the schedule
- Ensure that the documents pertaining to audit finalisation / completion has been completed and reviewed (Overs/Unders, Management letter, Representation letter)
- Ensure that the post balance sheet events review work and the going concern review is completed up to the date of the signing of the audit report
- Prepare audit committee documents, attend and present at audit committees (with audit partner discussion)
- Attend and facilitate wrap-up meetings
- Negotiate overruns and budgets
- Provide low level tech support too team and department as a whole
- Provide adequate on the job training, counselling and evaluation
Admin
- Be responsible for staff movements on and off the job (approval of leave) and timeously communicate to all relevant parties.
- Ensure that the files for archiving are done
People Development, Learning and Growth:
- Timeous completion of ANAs once completed by the trainee
- Relationship building with the trainee
- Timeous completion of PTS and LTS and ANAs
- Mentoring of trainees and seniors when required
- Assist with recruitment and selection e.g. interviews, VAC work
REQUIREMENTS:
COMPETENCIES:
- Communication (Verbal and Written / Negotiation)
- Personal Development (Emotional Intelligence / Continuous Development)
- Relationship Management (Building successful teams)
- Growing the Business (Entrepreneurial spirit / Looking for Business)
- Client Focus (Planning, organising and control)
The appointment will be made in terms of the Firm's Employment Equity Policy. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Job Closing Date:18/11/2020
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Introduction
- BDO has a vacancy within the Business Services and Advisory division for an Accountant in charge of Financial Statement Preparation.
Specification
Job Specifications:
Perform the following annual engagements:
- Annual write-up of accounting records utilising the firms preferred software tool, i.e. Xero, SAGE Online, Pastel Partner
- Compilation Engagements in terms of ISRS 4410
- Independent Review Engagements in terms of ISRE 2400
- Accounting Officer Engagements in terms of Close Corporations Act
- Ensuring that proper planning is performed before execution
- Ensuring BDO SOP’s are followed at all times
- Proposing journals to client (via Senior / Manager)
- Communicating with clients and making engagement arrangements, discuss engagement results
- Drafting AFS per IFRS and IFRS for SMEs
- Performing tax computations for companies, close corporations and trusts (including SBC’s, special allowances (s12C, s12E, etc)
- Managing own WIP and budgets on engagements
- Updating Manager and Partner on progress of engagements
- Mentoring junior staff both on the job and generally
- Assist other staff members where needed
- Outsourced projects when needed
- Other duties as may be required in line with the position.
Requirements
Job Requirements:
- B.Com Financial Accounting and Tax as majors
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Good communication skills, internal and external, both written and verbal
- Ability to travel in and around the greater Johannesburg (own transport or public)
- Working knowledge of most commonly used accounting packages (for reporting purposes and ad-hoc processing)
- Detailed knowledge of Caseware Workingpapers
The appointment will be made in terms of the firm’s Employment Equity Policy. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Job Closing Date:19/11/2020
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