Job Description
Description
1. Conduct efficient audits in accordance with the audit plan to identify and report on significant control weaknesses within the Company
• Apply excellent analytical skills to identify business impact
• Deliver accurate, timely, concise, relevant and constructive reporting.
• Perform Quality planning and obtain good understanding of the business area in accordance with the set IA guidelines.
• Perform Fieldwork effectively ensuring sufficient evidence is analyzed, adequate testing and relevant business impact is emphasized.
• Group standards are followed for all aspects of internal audit activity and ensures continuous monitoring of its effectiveness
• Adherence to set and agree upon audit time frames and on time delivery.
2. Support a strong control environment
• Ongoing follow up on Management actions: target zero overdue actions
• Support in year management requests outside the original audit plan as relevant,
• Regular collaboration with 2nd line maturity functions to improve the entity control environment,
• Produce insightful ‘root cause’ analysis and opinion over the entity control environment
3. Help Audit Manager to deliver strategy and change
• Identification of risky areas to be included in the audit plan and form internal audit perception of risk.
• Facilitate effective audit and risk committee.
• Present audit results to executive members and group IA.
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4. Utilize our matrix view to ensure that best practices across the group are built upon and continually developed to meet the changing needs of the business and its environment
• Conduct cross entity audits timely and effectively, audits in other markets and share best practices
• Being proactive in the group Initiatives and involvement of IA people across the cluster in the virtual teams
• Adding value to the audit community through ensuring owned PRD areas are understood, relevant reports are timely reviewed, RCMs are regularly updated, best practices are captured and shared.
• Ensure the audit process identifies good business practice and that it is shared with the wider Audit Community
5. Improve Vodafone audit methodology & efficiency
• Support the development and improvement of audit methodology and tools like the Process Reference document, related risks and controls matrices, audit management system etc.
• Support the strategic audit planning process by suggesting changes to the Process Reference Document and providing input on high risk areas through the audit perception of risk exercise
6. Be a business partner to promote admired brand
• Adopt the advisory role and consultancy
• Maintain high Internal satisfaction Net Promoter Scores
• pro-actively develop relationships with key stakeholders across Vodafone that fosters acceptance and buy in to audit goals and therefore create a positive acceptance of the audit process and outcomes
• increase awareness of the internal audit team and activities
7. Special projects
• Respond to special project, ad-hoc audits, Control alerts check, project reviews, or similar requests from local management or Group Internal Audit
8. Team management & staff development
• Support team members in their personal and professional development
• Ensure that auditors within the department have a broad spread of experience and responsibility to provide them with experience when considering future career options
• Manage and motivate the Internal Audit team to optimize the teams’ performance and maximize their potential.