Audit Officer Career Jobs - Uganda Clays Limited (UCL)

Organisation: Uganda Clays Limited (UCL)

Reports to: Head of Internal Audit

Uganda

Clays Limited is Uganda’s leading manufacturer of quality clay baked

construction products since 1950 and is listed on Uganda’s Securities Exchange.

The head offices are located at 14Km on Entebbe Road, with a second factory

situated at Kamonkoli in Eastern Uganda.

Job Summary: The Audit Officer will offer support to the

internal audit function at Uganda Clays through the coordination and management

of activities that will ensure the implementation of an independent and

systematic approach which evaluates and improves the effectiveness of policies,

procedures and standards designed to add value, improve and mitigate risk to

company operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Coordinate and execute audit engagements on
  
  time through adequate allocation of resources to achieve the audit
  
  objective.


• Keenly review and monitor the application of
  
  UCL’s policies, ensure that they are consistently applied throughout the
  
  organization and where required provide feedback to the appropriate
  
  departments to update policies to enable systematic implementation of
  
  UCL’s operations.


• Regularly review financial statements to
  
  ensure that they are true, fairly presented and can be reliably used for
  
  decision making.


• Prepare and submit reports that meet the
  
  engagement objective to provide management and the board assurance on risk
  
  management processes, effectiveness of internal controls and good
  
  governance practices on a timely basis, accurately and constructively.


• Lead the team of Audit Assistants, in a
  
  manner that empowers them to carry out highly effective audits that add
  
  value to Uganda Clays operations.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant should hold a bachelor’s degree
  
  in Commerce, Business Administration -Accounting.


• Full professional qualification i.e. ACCA,
  
  CPA or CIMA. Finalists in these professional courses will be considered.


• A minimum of four years’ experience in either
  
  external or internal audit gained from a reputable organisation at middle
  
  or top management level.


• Good knowledge in computerised accounting and
  
  auditing.


• Broad knowledge and understanding of process
  
  flow and procedures.


• Excellent interpersonal communication and
  
  report writing skills.


• Excellent analytical and problem solving
  
  skills.

All

suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications and

updated CVs, copies of certificates/ testimonials and addresses of three (3)

referees plus day-time telephone contact, present position and current

remuneration to the address below:

Human

Resources and Administration Manager,

P.O.

Box 3188 Kampala, Uganda.

Deadline: 11^th March 2016.