Internal Auditor - Durban, South Africa

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Duties and Responsibilities:
* Engage line management to define the legislative and regulatory compliance framework and determine current business processes and documents.
* Develop an appropriate audit assessment tool to evaluate the compliance in each functional area.
* Identify best practices together with risks and internal controls already implemented.
* Facilitate the confirmation of compliance checklists per functional area.
* Evaluate the adequacy of controls and the extent of compliance in each functional area
* Recommend the most appropriate controls (where non-existent), aligned to organizational policies and procedures, and agree the steps to be taken to attain appropriate compliance levels.
* Assist the Internal Control and Risk Manager in preparing an annual risk-based internal audit plan.
* Conduct a risk assessment of assigned audit/functional areas within required timelines.
* Participate in the determination of the scope and approach of the audits in conjunction with the Internal Control and Risk Manager.
* Conduct audits in accordance with the Annual Audit Plan and Audit Methodology.
* Conduct audit testing of specified processes to test the adequacy of the design and operational effectiveness of controls.
* Ensure test results are documented on audit working papers.
* Evaluate the test results and make recommendations to correct unsatisfactory conditions.
* Follow up on queries raised by the Internal Control and Risk Manager upon reviews of working papers and conclude on audit test results.
* Validate audit issues identified through discussion with management and a review of mitigating controls.

Key Skills
* Independence
* Objectivity
* Tolerance of stress and pressure
* Attention to detail
* Deadline driven
* High level of integrity and ethics and able to maintain confidentiality
* Able to interact at all levels of the organization