Advise clients to understand and manage their business risks and verify the validity of their business information. Provide internal audit services to help clients align their internal audit strategy to the broader business strategy, conduct assessments and diagnostics, develop and execute internal audit transformations, and deliver outsourcing or co-sourcing services. Offer recommendations to clients on risk management issues by identifying, measuring, and analysing operational or enterprise risks for an organization. Analyse new legislation to determine impact on risk exposure. Help clients address compliance, financial, and operational risks. Perform internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis. Assess the client’s current state internal controls and SOX framework in order to mitigate risk. 
 
Manage and motivate teams of professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds. Consistently deliver quality client services by monitoring progress. Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Maintain long-term client relationships and networks. Cultivate business development opportunities.

 Your key responsibilities

• Leading and guiding the team and client to create and deliver internal audit plans for accomplishing engagement objectives and strategies which comply with professional standards.
• Advising clients to understand and manage business risks and verify the validity of business information.
• Nurturing client relationships to achieve service expectations, deliverables and outcomes.
• Delivering internal audits that address compliance, financial, operational and strategic risks, and assess the current state internal controls and framework in order to mitigate current and emerging risks in the clients’ industry.
• Keeping up to date with innovative assurance industry trends and briefing the engagement team on the client’s internal audit environment.

 Skills and attributes for success

• Practical and solution-oriented approach to identify technical developments and evaluate and advise impacts.
• High level communication and engagement skills, including exceptional report writing abilities
• Strong business acumen, commercially focused attitude.
• Inspiring leadership capability with the motivation to develop others, build high performing teams and effectively delegate with appropriate levels of support.
• Excellent project management skills including ability to lead fieldwork.

 To qualify for the role, you must have

• A Bachelor or Master’s degree qualification in finance, business, accounting or related discipline
• Professional accreditations and qualifications will also be considered favourably (CPA, CISA, CA, CIA, CISM, CISSP, CBCP, CIPP certification within one year of hire)
• May require travel to serve client needs