Assurance Specialist - London, United Kingdom - De Beers Group of Companies

De Beers Group of Companies

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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**Company Description

Join us as an Assurance Specialist.**We're reimagining mining to improve people's lives. That includes the lives of everyone who works for Anglo American. We strive to be a great company where employees are happy and inspired to do their best work. A place where every colleague can grow, develop and realise their potential. To live up to our Values and Purpose which is at the heart of everything we do. We're putting the development and growth of colleagues first by ensuring everyone at Anglo American has the career experience they deserve.

Job Description:

This role will lead, plan, execute and report comprehensive internal audits and advisory engagements across the organisation. It will play a critical role in providing assurance and advisory to ensure the integrity, compliance, efficiency and sustainability of financial, operational and strategic processes. You will play a key role in assessing risk mitigating strategies, promoting good governance, and providing independent assurance and valuable insights to the Board and senior management. This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity for an experienced, skilled and qualified professional to make a significant impact on a prominent listed company.

Key Responsibilities include:

Support the development and execution of the annual internal audit plan aligned with the company's risk assessment, strategic objectives, and regulatory requirements.
Autonomously deliver and take accountability to conduct endtoend assigned audit engagements in line with the approved Internal Audit Plan and budget. Engagements will be across diverse departments, covering financial, strategic, operational, compliance, IT, and ESG risks assessing risk mitigating strategies, identify key control weaknesses, potential fraud risks, and emerging industry trends.

This will involve performing:

Audit planning activities (e.g. audit scoping, risk assessments and audit work programme);
Audit execution activities using appropriate audit approaches, tools and techniques;
Conduct thorough testing of internal controls, leveraging data analytics tools and methodologies for efficient audit execution;
Audit documentation in appropriate templates and maintenance of audit evidence;
Prepare clear, concise, and wellsupported audit reports with effective, sustainable and actionable recommendations to improve internal controls and strengthen the overall control environment. Report audit issues based on root causes and ability to draw on themes across relevant audits.
Confidently present and hold discussions with business stakeholders throughout the audit engagements, including:
Obtain understanding of the business processes, controls and self-identified gaps / known risks;
Hold discussion with business stakeholders about audit work such as obtaining factual accuracy of audit findings; and
Present audit observations and issues with business stakeholders; and discuss remediation actions or solutions.
Monitor the implementation of agreedupon corrective actions and assess their effectiveness in follow up audits.
Assist with the preparation and submission of respective reports for Senior Management and Executivelevel meetings (e.g. Audit Committee, Risk and Assurance Meetings, etc.).
Participate in the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) in line with ABAS standards, methodology.

Qualifications:

ACA, ACCA required, CIA is desirable
Knowledge of IIA standards
Knowledge of Audit data analytics tools
Ability to draw on data in order to make a diagnosis. Then decide between alternative methods to address individual case(s).
Can Recommend/Advise on improvements to processes/systems.
Audit and risk techniques: data analytics and quantitative analysis (including tools)
Analytical thinking and Critical thinking

**Additional Information

Who we are**We aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies. As the custodians of coal and other precious natural resources diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore and nickel our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.

How we are committed to your safety
Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day's work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry.

Not only that, we're also continually investing in new technologies - from drones to data analytics - that are helping to make mining safer.

Inclusion and Diversity
Anglo American is an equal opportunit