Internal Auditor Job Placement – SolarNow
Job Title: Internal Auditor
Organisation: SolarNow
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Country Sales Manager
About US:
SolarNow is an asset financing company that sells high quality solar product and appliances to households and businesses in Uganda. The company started in 2011 and has since opened 46 branches throughout Uganda, employs around 600 people.
Job Summary: The Internal Auditor regularly monitors and evaluates how well risks are being managed, the business is being governed and internal processes are working. He/she provides advises management on how to improve systems and processes. The quarterly work plan is approved by the company’s Supervisory Board, to whom the Internal Auditor also reports. The Auditor supervises a team of 2-3 junior auditors.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop a deep understanding of business processes;
- Travel to branches and visit clients to verify compliance with policies and procedures;
- Evaluate compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Ensures a company complies with internal regulations and established control protocol
- Assess the overall integrity, efficiency, reliability and compliance of the organization’s internal control mechanism and of it’s rules and regulations.
- Test, design the integrity of existing financial controls.
- Prepare reports to the Supervisory Board and Management highlighting risks;
- Create and update internal audit plan.
- Draft the quarterly audit plan and present to the Supervisory Board
- Perform risk assessments on key business activities;
- Reconcile documentation with actual inventory or assets to ascertain accuracy
- Evaluate information management systems and computer databases. Ensure that confidential customer information and proprietary intellectual property is secure, and user authorization is matches with appropriate access to privileged information.
- Makes recommendations for the best ways for a company to avoid fraud and reduce waste
- Monitor external developments possibly affecting the business;
- Provide recommendations to make improvements to operations;
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Solarnow Internal Auditor job placement should preferably hold a BSc or MSc degree in the field of Finance, Economics or Accounting
- Previous experience working in an audit function in banking, micro-finance, or retail business with a branch network also, conducting internal audits for multinationals is an added advantage.
- Previous experience in Audit firms like PWC, Ernest and Young, KPMG, Deloitte , Ernest and Young is a must.
- Auditing knowledge of Legal and Financial Systems
- Documentation and Record Keeping
- Work experience conducting internal audits for multinational companies
- The ability to use your own initiative and work independently;
- Analytically thinking and attention to detail;
- Strong ethical standards and high levels of integrity;
- The ability to think objectively and demonstrate sound judgment;
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal;
- Resilience under pressure;
- Flexible thinking and ability to adapt to change.
- Age: Above 30 years
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their applications to the Human Resource Manager, SolarNow Uganda Services via e-mail to recruitmentug@solarnow.eu with their updated CVs (no other documents).
Deadline: 23rd March 2018
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