Internal Auditor

Job Description

Job Summary

Our Client a deliveries worldwide; freight forwarding with planes, trucks and ships; warehousing services that go beyond just storage, but include everything from packaging to repairs; international mail deliveries; customized and specialized shipping.

Job Description:

• Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.
• Report to management about asset utilization and audit results and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
• Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
• Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
• Supervise auditing of establishments and determine scope of investigation required.
• Confer with company officials about financial and regulatory matters.
• Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
• Inspect cash on hand, notes receivable and payable, negotiable securities, and canceled checks to confirm records are accurate.
• Examine records and interview personnel to ensure recording of transactions and compliance with laws and regulations.
• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Prepare adjusting journal entries.
• Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
• Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Examine inventory to verify journal and ledger entries.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Examine whether the organization’s objectives are reflected in its management activities, and whether employees understand the objectives.
• Audit payroll and personnel records to determine unemployment insurance premiums, workers’ compensation coverage, liabilities, and compliance with tax laws.
• Review taxpayer accounts, and conduct audits on-site, by correspondence, or by summoning taxpayers to office.
• Compute taxes owed and prepared tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
• Develop, maintain, or analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.

Job Requirements:

• Education: Required a university degree preferably in one of the following: Finance, Economics or Accountancy.
• Experience: 10+ years of working experience in internal auditing is required, preferably in a similar industry. 
• Language: Fluency spoken and written English, Arabic is a plus.
• Proven working experience as an Internal Auditor.
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong ethical standards and high levels of integrity.
• High attention to detail and excellent analytical skills.
• Organization, facilitation and time-keeping skills.
• Ability to assess and evaluate risk, plus implement solutions.
• Excellent reporting skills.
• Ability to keep calm under pressure, especially when there are tight deadlines.
• Ability to think objectively.