Audit Accountant (FTC)

Project based Fixed term contractor role

Purpose:

The role will manage and execute external audits of multinational legal entities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review Reconciliations

• Build Audit files

• Audit preparation

• Review Annual Financial Statements

• Audit execution – managing audit process from planning to sign-off, responding to audit queries, ensuring good relationship with auditors

• Work with the business and Central Finance to ensure smooth audit of subsequent years:

• Internal control reviews to ensure readiness for more efficient auditor approaches (Controls audit vs Substantive audit – reduces sample sizes)

• Proactive Central Finance accounting reviews

• Ensure continuous compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards

• Auditor’s Reports to Management – ensure that auditors’ housekeeping findings are addressed

Requirements

Qualifications and Work Experience

• Must have done audit articles

• 2 Years post-articles experience in audit environment

• Must be fast and detailed

Skills:

• Advanced MS Excel skills & Numerical skills

• High attention to detail (accuracy)

• Ability to deal with complex information and requests

• Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team

• Confident and enthusiastic self-starter who can take initiative

• Mature decision making

• Action orientation and Project management

• Ability to work under own initiative without guidance

• Copes well under sustained pressure

• Interpersonal and relationship management skills

• Organisation and administration skills

• Diagnostic, analytical & problem-solving skils

• Information integration & report writing skills - responsible for collating information for reporting purposes