Internal Auditor

Job description

Job Purpose

To provide independent assurance that key controls are designed and operating effectively across milling and animal feeds operations, with a primary focus on loss prevention, fraud deterrence and detection, safeguarding of assets, and compliance with internal policies and applicable laws and regulations. The role conducts substantive testing, control walk-throughs, and spot checks across administrative offices, manufacturing sites, and depots, and reports findings to management for timely remediation.

Job Responsibilities

• Detect, investigate, and prevent financial, inventory, and operational losses, including fraud, theft, misuse of assets, and revenue leakage.
• Perform targeted loss-prevention testing across depots, mills, warehouses, and commercial operations.
• Independently test whether existing controls are operating as designed, without designing or modifying processes.
• Perform substantive testing of high-risk areas including revenue, inventory, procurement, production variances, payroll, and fixed assets.
• Conduct scheduled and surprise verification checks on cash, stock, weighbridge records, production yields, and assets.
• Verify compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, corporate standards, and contractual obligations.
• Validate adherence to tax, statutory, and governance requirements without participating in policy development or process design.
• Report confirmed breaches or non-compliance with factual evidence and risk implications.
• Support external auditors, corporate audit teams, and regulators by preparing documentation, test results, and supporting evidence.
• Track closure of agreed audit findings, focusing on verification of completion rather than remediation execution.
• Produce objective, evidence-based assurance reports highlighting control failures, loss exposure, and compliance gaps.
• Escalate critical risk matters based on verified facts, without assuming operational accountability.
• Participate in physical stock counts and variance investigations to validate reported production and inventory accuracy.
• Perform independent verification of weighbridge data, raw-material usage, finished-goods movements, and shrinkage.

Minimum Knowledge and Experience Required

• Full grade 12 school certificate, and an accountancy degree
• Full ZICA, ACCA or other comparable professional accounting qualification
• 5 years of relevant accounting experience; must include 2 years of external or internal audit experience
• Strong aptitude for math and good computer skills
• Strong written communication skills
• US GAAP knowledge is a plus