Date Posted:
2025-12-17 17:01:50
Employment Type
Full Time
Website
Location:
Lusaka
Salary:
Negotiable
Phone:
Description:
Job Purpose
The Internal Auditor working with the Manager Audit, Risk and Compliance will plan, conduct and report the results of audits and special investigations. enforcing compliance with internal regulations, recommending improvements to our internal control structure, and ensuring compliance with legal and banking centralized regulations.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the HOD in conducting, managing, and overseeing external and internal audits.
- Reviewing all relevant programs and activities affected by banking regulations, including records, reports, and software
- Analyzing potential risks within the company and its practices to avoid possible compliance issues
- Gather information and understand auditable area
- Conduct Risk Assessment of auditable area
- Review and Assess internal Controls in auditable area
- Tracking reported Banks violations and the responses and plans regarding these allegations
- Analyzing existing compliance records and making all necessary updates
- Compiling reports on the results of external and internal audits and presenting these reports to the relevant supervisors and department heads
- Work with the Manager Audit, Risk and Compliance to prepare and review of Audit Policy and Procedure
- Establish effective accounting and risk management control for the Bank
- Review practices and records for compliance with established internal policies and procedures
- Support to review and comment on policies issued for various departments.
- Periodically visit branches to enforce compliance
- Conduct investigations of irregularities discovered by or brought to the auditors attention.
- Identify key risks and related controls within the audited process,
- Perform tests to assess the adequacy of controls,
- Document processes by applying narratives, process maps, and flowcharts; and perform analysis of process documentation to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of a process.
- Perform other duties as required, consistent with the goals, objectives, and responsibilities of the internal audit department and with the approval of the Audit Committee.
- Evaluate and identify significant issues in terms of governance, risks, and control
- Consider audit approach and methodology and prepare audit program
- Conduct fieldwork according to audit program and document evidence noting its relevance.
- Evaluate audit observations, conclusions, and recommendations.
Required Skills and Competencies
- Excellent communication, presentation and convincing abilities
- Excellent Analytical Skills presentation and convincing abilities
- Good English skill (speaking, listening and writing)
- Good Risk Management skills
- Attention to detail
- Efficiency in utilizing MS Office.
- Good experience in internal audit.
- Good commercial and technical comprehension
- Good detail conscious.
- Confident, assertive, trustworthy, fair judgment, high degree of integrity and initiative.
Primary Areas of Accountability:
Qualifications and Experience
- Full CA Zambia, ACCA/CIMA OR
- Degree in Accounting/ Finance/ Risk Management
- Must have a minimum of at least 5+ years progressively experience
working as an Internal Auditor or Risk and Compliance Officer for a
Commercial Bank or Financial Institution at Middle Management
Level - Must have In depth knowledge of Financial and Operations Audit, Strong knowledge of Standard Audit Practices
- Must have CIA certification
- Must be a member of IIA & ZICA
QUALIFIED & EXPERIENCED FEMALES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION
If
you meet the hiring requirements for the position, please email your CV
in MS Word and Cover Letter clearly stating your salary expectations
to: jobs@bemconsult.com & Cc bemconsult8@gmail.com
Note
that, all communications will be kept in the strictest of confidence.
If you do not receive communication within 21 working days of the
closing date of the advert, please consider your application
unsuccessful.
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