VACANCIES AT SIAO PARTNERS

SIAO Partners is a Nigerian formed and leading Professional Accounting services (Audit, Finance Advisory, Tax, Human Resource and Compliance) firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja. The firm is committed to excellent service delivery in accordance with global proven best accountancy practices.

As part of our expansion strategy, we seek to recruit competent and result oriented professionals to strengthen the team and ensure continued quality services.

POSITION 1: AUDIT MANAGER:

Job Description:

·         Participate in the firm’s strategic planning process to refine the firm’s mission, vision and values, assess its current state and establish goals for the future of the firm

·         Participate in planning activities, as assigned to establish the objectives, revenue, client and staff projections, and associated budget for the audit department to be approved by the Board of Partners

·         Ensures that the objectives and budgets for the audit department are met each quarter

·         Participate in business development of the practice by finding clients for the firm and retaining existing clients

·         Provides input and reviews departmental policies, procedures and service methodologies and ensures that the team (Audit staff) follow’s them

·         Participate in audit firm staffing or policies, new business opportunities, clients’ project status and relevant technical discussions etc.

·         Works to fulfill financial plans for  the audit department to achieve the firm’s financial goals, including expenditure, personal and departmental revenue goals, and staff productivity goals

·         Work to improve the audit department’s profitability, revenue per engagement and performance against budget with the Audit service line leader

·         Develops alliances, referral relationships, and ensures work produced meets the quality standard

·         Develops proposal letters for audit engagements under the =then current client acceptance procedures for approval by the Audit Service Line Leader.

QUALIFICATION:

·         Educated to degree level (Bachelor) in fields relevant to performance auditing. Must be ACA/ACCA qualified.

·         At least 15 years post – qualification and professional experience in performance auditing from reputable audit firm or at the level of senior Internal Audit Manager.

·         Must be result oriented as this position will play an important role in increasing the firm’s Audit Practice through the development of new business.

·         The ideal candidate will further the firm’s existing strong presence and growth through their business development efforts.

·         Minimum aged of35years, and must not be more than 40 years of age.

POSITION 2:  PERFORMANCE AUDIT MANAGER:

Job Description:

·         Supervises professional performance audit staff responsible for conducting performance audits or evaluations of programs that include but are not limited to effectiveness, efficiency, public policy assessment, governance, internal control and compliance objectives.

·         Continuously assesses the support needed by members of the Audit department for the maintenance and development of performance auditing

·         Manages and develops training programmes in accordance with the Audit needs and the annual work plan

·         Reviews audit jobs for accurancy, quality and conformance to departmental policy, ordinance and statutory requirements

·         Develops or modifies work plans, methods and procedures.

·         Determines work priorities and develops work schedules to provide adequate staff coverage

·         Conducts performance evaluations and provide coaching, mentoring and suggest training plans to help staff further develop their skills

·         Planning, directing and completing business process control review engagements

·         Ensure in other capacity building programme /projects as related to the Audit department

·         Motivates, encourages and assist member of Audit department to maintain and further develop performance audit capacity.

 QUALIFICATION:

·         Educated to degree level (Bachelor) in fields relevant to performance auditing. Must be ACA/ACCA qualified.

·         At least 15 years post – qualification and professional experience in performance auditing from reputable audit firm or at the level of senior Internal Audit Manager.

·         Well experienced in methodology, capacity building and in performance auditing.

Interested candidates should send application to: recruit@siao-ng.com

Within one week of publication. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Source: Tuesday Guardian, 16^th September, 2014.