Principal Internal Auditor at Safaricom Kenya

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

Health and Safety

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

• Audit Planning & Execution
• Reporting and Record Keeping
• Risk Controls and Awareness
• Risk Management Projects
• New projects/process re-engineering
• Supervisory Responsibility
• Prior audit recommendations

Key responsibilities

• Participation in the overall development and delivery of the audit plan.
• Lead, plan, execute and communicate results of audit assignments as per the audit plan.
• Manage assignment level quality requirements in all audit work in conformance to Internal policies, auditing standards and procedures for consistent quality audit results.
• Provide advisory support management on designing, implementing, and enhancing business controls.
• Provide independent assurance in strategic projects and proactively recommend controls to mitigate risks.
• Follow up audit recommendations and validate the implementation of the closure actions.
• Provide support to Risk Management processes to ensure that business key risks are adequately assessed, mitigated and the assurance map appropriately updated.
• Provide automation of audit testing support for business controls.
• Provide timely and relevant reports on audit outcomes to support management and the Board on risk assurance and mitigation decisions.
• Keep abreast with the latest technology trends and provide input to mitigate emerging threats.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience

Business Competencies

• Working With Others.
• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction.
• Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make.
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people.
• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks.

Operational Excellence

• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity.
• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement.
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end.
• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems.

Creativity and Innovation

• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems.
• Takes risks and pushes what is possible.
• Experiments with unorthodox approaches.

Business Know-how

• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust.
• Balances current and future needs.
• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business.
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards.

Working With Change

• Responds flexibly to changing situations.
• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance.

Project and Programme Management

• Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit.
• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies.
• Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues.

Functional Competencies

Audit

• This competence describes the ability to objectively evaluate critical business processes and projects to ensure compliance, mitigate risk and drive improvement by implementing and testing process controls and governance.

Qualifications

• Upper second degree in a Technical or Business field from a recognized University.
• Fully qualified accountant - CPA (K) or equivalent and /or Holder of Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or equivalent.
• 6-8 years working experience in external audit specializing in Business processes and/or information systems assurance from a reputable audit firm or extensive experience within an internal audit function.
• High level knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with all levels of management.
• Excellent reporting (oral and written) skills.
• Proven ability to lead audits and manage an audit team.
• Proven ability to self-start and effectively manage their own workload to deliver a series of assignments.
• Experience of using data analytics tools to support Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (e.g. ACL or Windows Idea).