Telecom Vacancy: Head of Internal Audit :: Africa

Location: Sub Saharan Africa 
Start Date: ASAP 
End Date: Permanent


Job Description: 
• To enhance the compliance and control culture within the organisation and facilitate an audit process that provides this assurance 
• Responsible for management of the audit activities across Africa 
• Manage the work done by the audit partner and help identify process weaknesses and recommend systemic fixes that can address the gaps 
• Regular meetings with Regional CEOs and Opcos MDs / Directors to discuss key risk issues & actions planned to address the same 
• To actively engage with OpCo teams and drive improvement in the control environment 
• This will be measured through an increase in the Internal Audit score 
• Adopt a risk based approach to audit planning and ensure higher coverage for high risk processes and OpCos with weaknesses in the control environment 
• Ensure flexibility in the audit planning process in order that relevant and critical risks are covered 
• Ensure reporting to BAC at Group and country level (where applicable) is an accurate and fair representation of the state of controls 
• Conduct regular review of the audit work done by outsourced audit partners to validate coverage, quality of audit work and reporting 
• Provide continuous feedback to partners on quality of field work and deployment of resources 
• Ensure on-going dialogue with stakeholders and internally within the team to identify potential risks and ensure that risk profile reflects key risks at all times 
• Review mitigation plans of business units and ensure that the plans result in sustainable closure of risk 
• Facilitate Quarterly review of Africa Airtel's top 10 risks by the Risk Committee 
• Keep abreast with regional and international trends and identify new and emerging risks in the business 
• Use the audit work to highlight instances/ indicators of fraud and support in the investigation process 
• Ensure that the learning from fraud investigations are incorporated into functional audit work 
• Also make sure that the same are shared with functional SMEs and business process owners in order that the risk is minimised across business units 
• Facilitate with the Manager Fraud Control, the roll out of the Fraud Awareness training across the OpCos 
• Continuous development of IA team including peers and partners 
• Ensure ongoing reassessment of skill sets required and supplement through recruitment or outsourcing 
• Identify key areas of development for self and ensure that the gaps identified are plugged through training or on-the-job training / consultation 
• Facilitate the audit process through management of a team of 35 auditors which are part of the Outsourced audit partner’s team


Requirements: 
• Post graduation with a major in Management / Finance and Accounting / Engineering 
• Minimum 15 years of experience out of which at least 10 years should be in Internal Audit / Risk Management / Compliance 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Ability to work independently as well as manage a team of professionals 
• Interact with senior management and act as a change agent 
• Manage a team (in house and partner teams) 
• Experience in the telecommunications industry


Please email your CV to hmartins@firstpointgroup.com