Audit Manager

Company Description.
Employd Staffing Solutions Ltd is a comprehensive Human Capital Consultancy firm based in Nairobi County, Kenya. Our core HR activities include Recruitment, Labour Outsourcing, Payroll Management, and Employee Trainings. We build fruitful relationships with our clients and always aim to add value to their business by improving the efficiency of their HR activities and increasing the return on their Human Capital spend.

Key Responsibilities:
Ensuring that all the jobs are included in the job planning schedule and either the team leader or the field team leader has contacted the client to agree the audit time frame.
Reviewing the audit plan for Partner approval; supervising the audit team and reviewing the work thereby ensuring that the work carried out by the team is in accordance with the audit plan, Audit Methodology and Quality Assurance and Risk Containment Policies; within the budgeted time; and ensuring that the key engagement issues are identified and resolved on a timely basis.
Checking for any conflict at the proposal stage and before the firm accepts any engagements and ensuring management is updated where required.
Training and developing the skills of staff in the department, including preparing training material.
Identify cross-selling opportunities for the firm’s services and leading in its marketing initiatives.
Developing market intelligence on potential projects, business opportunities and developments in the competition.
Carrying out administrative duties and any other tasks as may be delegated from time-to-time.
Ensuring that the rapport with the client is maintained and that the firm’s values are reflected in each engagement carried out.
Performing administrative tasks (client delivery, billing and collection, productivity, staff mix etc.) to ensure the audit portfolio maintained is efficiently managed.
Reviewing the job planning schedule, scheduling staff to engagements and updating this on a weekly basis and ensuring that staff are supervised and occupied.
Maintaining the work-in-progress register for all engagements and reviewing this on a weekly basis with the Partner.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree qualifications in Accounting, Finance or related field.
7 years’ experience in a professional accounting firm in accounting and/or auditing field with at least 4 year in a managerial position
Holds technical and professional qualification in Audit (CPA), relevant membership.
Experience in providing technical advisory services to audit engagement teams or clients
Ability to understand and document workflows and business processes.
Knowledge and effective application of all relevant policies, processes, procedures and guidelines to achieve consistently, required compliance standards or benchmarks.
Organized, able to work both independently and in a team setting.
Ability to identify solutions that effectively address business and control needs.
Interpersonal skills for effective communication of audit results to functional heads and other stakeholders.
Must have demonstrated ability to handle budgets, resources, processes, projects and relationships.
Should have thorough knowledge of the relevant industry/sector as well as knowledge of regulatory requirements affecting the relevant sector.
Must demonstrate ability to handle multiple and conflicting priorities, and work under strict deadlines.
Should have strong analytical and be result oriented.
Must have management and Leadership skills.
Must have ability to accurately plan work assignments, prioritize tasks and deliver deadlines.
Should have effective people management and conflict resolution skills.