Internal Audit Assistant Manager (Mining) needed at Ernst & Young Global Limited

Your client responsibilities

• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress.
• Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes, and organize own work such that important items get done first.
• Build strong internal relationships within EY and with other services across the organization.
• Research client industry, company structure, key customers and suppliers and possible insight into operations and the various processes
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Collaborate with the client to identify critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
• Manage own time in line with budgets
• Prepare or review business process descriptions through interviews with the client’s middle and senior management and documenting understanding of business process and confirm the business process descriptions by performing a walkthrough of the process.
• Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
• Drafting detailed audit programmes to test controls in place.
• Identify basic data analytic procedures
• Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy and validity thereof.
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• Provide a coaching / mentoring role.
• Review sections prepared by junior staff
• Draft individual sections of documents and presentations to explain issues and solution options and implications.
• Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.   
• Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions.
• Draft audit findings for review by EY Senior Management.
• Assist with presenting findings to client
• Assist with drafting proposals

Your people responsibilities

• Act as a visible role model for our people.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Give honest supportive feedback to colleagues.
• Take personal responsibility for own performance and career development.
• Play an active role in EY and Service line team activities.
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

Technical skills requirements

• Must have Honours in Internal Audit, Accounting, Business, Finance or other related field
• Must have CIA or equivalent
• Minimum of 7 years of related work experience
• 2-3 years Internal audit experience in Mining and Metals
• Related audit or applicable business experience specifically within a financial services environment
• Proficient in Microsoft office (including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).