Manager – Financial Audits

Position MANAGER – FINANCIAL AUDITS Job Purpose / Description Assists the Senior Manager- Specialised Audits in managing internal audit staff for financial audits in the planning, organizing, directing, and monitoring of internal audit operations, including assisting in training, evaluating staff and taking effective actions to address performance matters. Career Guides Zambia Qualifications • Full Grade 12 School Certificate • A financial and/or accounting bachelor’s degree or a professional qualification like ACCA, or CIMA, or CA Zambia. • Other professional qualifications like CIA, or CISA or CFE is an added advantage. Experience and Requirements At least 5 years’ experience internal and/or external auditing and at least 3 years of supervisory experience. Job Accountabilities • Manages the identification and evaluation of auditable areas in the accountable units and develops risk-based annual internal audit plans for financial audits. • Leads the Entry Conferences and Exit Conferences of each audit project. • Develops audit objectives, plans, and scope consistent with the Internal Audit Charter, the assessment of audit risk, and the audit needs/priorities. • Schedules audits, determines the resources that are necessary, and seeing that the approved audit plan is accomplished to the extent staffing allows. • Manages the performance of internal audit assignments, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing and analyzing evidence, and documenting client processes and procedures. • Reviews and approves detailed audit programs tailored to each audit to ensure that no specific tests or activities necessary for the audit are overlooked and to assist in preventing ineffective audit techniques from being performed. This review process is directed at specific accomplishment of defined audit objectives. • Manages the internal audit staff in conducting interviews, reviewing documents, developing and administering surveys, composing summary memos