Job Title: Senior Internal Auditor – Operations
Organisation: Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
REF: UNMC-2025-IA-02- 37
About Organisation:
The Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC) was established under the Mining and Minerals Act, 2022, (Act No. 25 of 2022) and incorporated under the Companies Act 2012, (Act No.1 of 2012). It is a limited liability company wholly owned by the Government of Uganda. The overall function of UNMC is to manage the commercial holding and participating interests of the State in the mining and mineral industry to ensure that the country obtains optimal value from its mineral resources.
Job Summary: Responsible for evaluating an organization’s technical systems, processes, and controls to ensure efficiency, compliance, and risk management.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- This is responsible for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Company’s internal controls.
- Evaluate the Company’s risk management framework and practices.
- Participate in the bi-annual risk assessment process that informs the scope of the audit.
- Communicate their findings and recommendations to management and other stakeholders.
- Promote continuous improvement within the Company by identifying opportunities for enhancing processes, controls, and risk management practices.
- Conduct audits either individually or as part of a team to give assurance as to the effectiveness of controls and other risk-mitigating measures.
- Perform root cause analysis and develop appropriate recommendations.
- Maintain audit files to ensure that audit findings are well supported.
- Carry out investigative audits including fraud investigations as assigned from time to time to achieve specified objectives.
- Prepare audit working papers to ensure that sufficient and reliable evidence has been gathered as a basis for reporting.
- Creation of staff awareness on risk management to minimize operational losses.
- Follow up on outstanding audit issues and document status updates in the audit software
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Commerce, Accounting, Business Administration, Risk Management or a relevant field.
- At least four (6) years of relevant experience in Auditing in Government or a reputable commercial/ business-oriented organization.
- Full membership of ICPAU, ACCA, CIA or an equivalent IFAC recognized professional accountancy body is an added advantage.
- Membership of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is an added advantage.
- Any other certification/post graduate qualification in the field of audit, risk management, and IT is an added advantage.
- Ability to collect, analyse and evaluate information and the preparation of written concise reports of work performed plus recommendations
- Experience in automated audit processes such as data analytics and use of audit management software is an added advantage.
- Age: 25-40 years
How to Apply:
Applicant should visit the UNMC website at www.unmc.co.ug or the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development website: www.memd.go.ug to view the detailed job description, select and apply for the job of choice and submit application through the online application system https://form.jotform.com/250122842226548
Only applications received online will be accepted. Applicants are required to attach CERTIFIED copies of the required academic documents. (Note that the academic documents should be certified by the awarding local institutions while awards by foreign institutions should be certified by the foreign institution or a duly authorized Certification body of that country) All applicants must attach soft copies of relevant motivation letter, CV and academic transcripts in word and PDF formats only.
Applications without Certified academic documents will not be considered.
UNMC offers a highly dynamic work environment and provides competitive and attractive benefits.
Deadline: Friday 19th April 2025 at 5:00pm
NB: Only shortlisted and successful candidates will be contacted, and any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.
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