Senior Auditor | Juma Al Majid Holding Group LLC

A well-known and well-reputed Company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is looking for an experienced, skilled, competent, mature, qualified, creative, and intelligent candidate with significant knowledge and relevant working experience for the position of  “Senior Auditor”.

Principal Account-abilities

The role of the Senior Auditor is to plan, supervise and oversee the various audit activities being carried out by assigned Auditors. The Senior Auditor Internal Audit performs detailed reviews of the working papers and drafts the internal audit report. The Senior Auditor Internal Audit ensures that duties are being carried out efficiently and professionally and in accordance with the Internal Audit Manual and the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.

• 1. Carry out the risk assessment of all functional units of the group for the purpose of preparing a risk based audit plan of the group
• 2. As auditor in charge, prepare audit plan of a unit as per the internal risk based criteria and focus on and key control risks
• 3. Identify weaknesses in the effectiveness of controls and key processes of the unit and provide appropriate recommendations for improvement to minimize risk and safeguard the assets of the group
• 4. Ensure working papers are prepared and adequate, clear and relevant evidence obtained to sufficiently support the audit conclusion. All working papers should have been properly referenced. Gather data for internal audit through a variety of methods including interviews, financial research, downloads, analysis ect.
• 5. Assess where applicable compliance with the International accounting standards (IAS0, Regulatory requirements, Company policies & Procedures and Delegation of Authorities etc.
• 6. Develop actions plans and present for discussions and acceptance in exit meetings at the end of the audit for common understanding on issues and agree to appropriate steps to be taken by the unit to ensure that these do no re-occur
• 7. As auditor in charge, manage the audit team to execute audits with focus on the processes under review and effectively communicate with the unit management to improve deficiencies and identify opportunities for improvements
• 8. Support Internal Audit management in implementing internal audit quality assurance by performing supervised internal reviews (process workflows, audit files / work-paper etc.) on periodic basis to maintain conformance to IIA professional practices framework (IPPF)
• 9.Ensure compliance with Internal Audit standard and policies (work ethics, time sheets etc.) Company’s policies and procedures.
• 10. Perform ad hoc duties as and when requested by the Chief Audit Officer.

Requirements

Qualification:

• Graduate or Post Graduate in Accounting or Business Administration from a recognized institution.
• Internationally recognized accounting/auditing qualifications like CA, CIA, CFE, CPA, ACCA, CISA, CMA etc.

Experience

Minimum of 5 years’ strong experience in auditing which include:

ü Fully aware of all the IPPF standards; and extremely proficient/knowledgeable in applying internal control concepts, including COSO on a variety of audit projects;

ü Well versed in Risk Management best practices;

ü Can identify technical accounting issues in Financial Reporting under IFRS;

ü Successfully juggle multiple projects at the same time; you deliver quality results by deadlines and are comfortable working with all sorts of styles of team members;

ü Experienced in using data analytics in your audit work and understand the challenges and benefits these tools can provide (Eg. ACL/ClickView).

Skills

• Strong communication skills He is an exceptional listener. He communicates clearly. He writes exceptionally well and He speak eloquently. He can explain just about anything to anyone. You’re comfortable on the phone or to groups of people – at any level. He is incredibly tactful when delivering the facts.
• Problem solving He enjoy solving problems. Getting to the root cause. He loves taking on difficult challenges and finding creative, innovative solutions. He doesn’t get flustered easily. If He don’t know the answer, you’ll dig until He find it
• Detail oriented He pay strong attention to the details as it is one of your core qualities. As far as He is concerned, anything worth doing is worth doing right, every single time. He stays focused and nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
• Exceptional critical thinking skills; He can identify gaps in logic and underlying causes of issues; He thinks on your feet. He likes learning new things, and He can learn quickly.
• Strong collaborator He can work independently because He self-manage, with limited direction and guidance, but He also enjoy collaborating across dynamic and multicultural teams and is personable, helpful and incredibly organized.