Position: AUDIT ASSOCIATE.
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025.
Date posted: 04 Mar 2025.
Location:Dar es Salaam.
Description:
Job Summary
On behalf of our esteemed client, we are looking for an Audit Associate who demonstrates a strong tone and culture to support high quality audit and is committed to maintain objectivity, professional skepticism, ethics, and integrity. The Audit Associate is expected to conduct financial audits with speed, efficiency, and accuracy and quality.
Job Responsibilities
- Display high level of commitment, objectivity, professional skepticism, ethics and integrity
- Assist in preparing audit plan, scope, risk assessment and allocation of work for audit engagement
- Complete audit procedures in compliance with the requirements of ISAs and IFRSs
- Develop skills to address more complex areas of audit engagement
- Identify and document risks, issues, and conclusions, including consultation on technical matters
- Demonstrate ability to identify risk of misstatements and escalate matters which is beyond the Associate’s own experience
- Demonstrate the ability to start executing audit deliverables from planning to completion stages
- Manage audit files, from engagement setup to completion, review note clearance and file closure
- High quality documentation to be recorded and reviewed on auditing software
- Identify and document audit misstatements, assess them individually and cumulatively against materiality and coordinate with Management for timely resolution of identified issues
- Demonstrate expertise in primary accounting and auditing frameworks such as ISAs and IFRSs
- Submit quality deliverables for review with minimal or no queries on audit quality
- Start developing skills to review non-complex financial statements
- Supporting the auditing team in their daily functions
- Resolving client audit queries efficiently
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master's degree in accounting or a related degree
- 2 years of audit experience preferably from reputed audit firm
- CPA qualified or partly qualified and on course for completion
- Versatile and skillful with Microsoft Office and Accounting/Auditing Software
- Ability to complete assigned tasks in a timely and proficient manner
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of accounting and auditing procedures
- Familiarity with local laws and regulations
- Good project and time management skills
- Ability to think outside the box, identify issues and research solutions to identified problems from a technical perspective
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to handle sensitive financial information
- Ability to research and to identify various types of necessary information for specific audits