Job Title: Junior Internal Auditor
Organisation: Unifi Africa
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Unifi Africa is a fast-growing financial technology company currently operating in Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa and most recently Uganda. Unifi Uganda delivers personal lending products from branch-based channels, utilising internally generated software and lending products backed by internal IT and data analytics teams.
Job Summary: Unifi Uganda has created a new position for an internal auditor, to join the existing team of four Africa-wide internal auditors, to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of controls in the business. The ideal candidate must be inquisitive, have integrity and be an analytical thinker with a willingness to learn and innovate. A healthy spirit of adventure and sense of humour would be helpful.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist in the planning and execution of internal audit engagements, audit testing, and reporting
- Review business processes & internal controls and identify shortcomings, inefficiencies, inadequacies in controls
- Identify gaps and propose value-added recommendations for improvements to current business processes
- Perform audit follow-ups to determine if agreed action was implemented
- Assist in the planning and execution of internal audit engagements, audit testing, and reporting
- Review business processes & internal controls and identify shortcomings, inefficiencies, inadequacies in controls
- Identify gaps and propose value-added recommendations for improvements to current business processes
- Perform audit follow-ups to determine if agreed action was implemented
- Operational audit
- Ongoing audit of areas vulnerable to operational fraud
- Unusual loan account transactions
- Branch cash-out instances
- Expense abuse
- Cash variance checking
- End of day variances: investigate, keep track, make findings
- Monthly cash counts
- Cash to bank – bank to cash audits
- Client sampling – phone 10-20 clients per week to test transaction validity
- Financial audit
- Audit implementation of accounting policies
- Loan book reconciliation
- Expense authorisations / legitimacy audit
- Clearing accounts reconciliations review
- Banking rights / recipients audit
- Inspect processed journals
- Compliance audit
- Regulatory compliance
- Ad Hoc
- Attend to management requests for investigations and assurance needs
- Attend to management requests for investigations and assurance needs
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Relevant higher education qualification
- Three to five years of work experience
- Detail-oriented mindset with a strong focus on accuracy and precision.
- Ability to work independently and also collaborate with the rest of the audit team
- Lending industry experience an advantage but not a requirement
- Willingness to travel when required.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 26th July 2024
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