Audit Assurance – Senior Manager – Grant Thornton 492 views

Grant Thornton in Botswana is a member firm of Grant Thornton International Limited, one of the world’s leading organizations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms. With offices in Gaborone and Francistown, we help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, forward-looking advice. Proactive teams led by approachable partners, use insight, experience, and instinct to understand complex issues for privately owned, publicly listed and public sector clients, and help them find solutions. More than 62,000 Grant Thornton people, across over 130 countries, focus on making a difference to clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. We offer an excellent and competitive growth environment for people who join the Grant Thornton network, and are looking for passionate, innovative individuals that demonstrate key attributes of ownership, adaptability and accountability, to join our team

Behaviour competencies expected from all candidates: excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong drive for success and confidence, work with minimum supervision, team player, ability to work efficiently with time consciousness, people management skills, professional behaviour, appetite to learn, result and deadline driven, decisive, ability to prioritise, assertive, lateral thinking, problem solving skills, creative and attention to detail.

Audit Assurance – Senior Manager 1 position – Gaborone branch

Responsibilities include: Maintaining an expert knowledge on Audit and Assurance related services; lead the multiple teams on diverse client assignments simultaneously; Review the audit work of the managers and other work papers relating to high risk areas prepared by audit team members to ensure that the work is completed and documented appropriately; imparting on the job training to the audit team members and act as mentors for their growth; review the audit planning documentation to ensure that audit objectives and overall audit assignment scope is established to ensure efficiency as well as mitigating risk audit and where required consulting with a partner as necessary; liasing with management of client and own audit team on daily basis and resolving operational issues and updating partners; ensure timely completion of tasks allocated with high quality of delivery; advise clients on various technical matters relating to IFRS / IFRS for SMEs / other accounting issues; assist/lead the training initiatives; take lead in business development activities of the firm. The applicant, if selected, will be reporting partner in charge of Audit.

Qualification, experience and skills: Candidate should have a professional qualification like BICA/ACCA/CA/CIMA/ICZA with a minimum of 7-10 years audit and financial reporting experience with a reputable audit firm. Knowledge of data analysis tools IDEA and financial statement preparation tool, Caseware would be given weightage.

Competencies candidate must have: Demonstrate in depth knowledge on IFRS and IFRS for SMEs, demonstrate excellent knowledge on International Standards on Auditing, demonstrate understanding of accounting concepts, knowledge of Botswana Taxation / VAT, excellent analytical skills, excellent communication skills, good interpretation skills, excellent computer skills.