Audit Assistant Central Team – Kenya
KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. Our purpose is to inspire confidence and empower change. We have a notable Africa Footprint serving clients across the continent. Our East Africa practice comprises Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
The Nairobi office serves as the regional coordinating office providing the required networking to facilitate delivery of services on a timely basis to meet and exceed our clients’ expectations.
Position Summary
We are currently looking for an Audit assistants who will play a role in assisting in delivery of projects (internal or external) as assigned.
Key roles and responsibilities
Managing Tasks:
- Perform audit support services to audit engagement/client service teams such as checking financial statement figures, audit confirmation processing, audit file creation and close-out, etc.
- Ensure a good relationship with audit engagement/client service teams is maintained in the process of performing work.
- Ensure delivery of the KPMG 7 Star service to all audit engagement/client service teams.
- Deliver allocated work within the required service level expectations as documented in the service catalogue in the Helpdesk systems..
Team Development:
- Work collaboratively, internally and externally
- Share knowledge and work across business lines.
- Ensure demonstration of cultural awareness and sensitivity.
Personal Development:
- Participation in firm wide activities e.g. graduate recruitment, CSR activities, etc.
- Managing own Learning and Development by identifying own learning needs and taking appropriate steps to address these.
- Ensure personal leave management and MyPD.
- Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.
- Active goal setting and review.
- Ensuring proper utilization and productivity while observing CPD requirements.
Risk Management:
- Ensure risk management through completion of risk management documents and ensure they are signed off and a task code obtained before starting any work.
- Complete all tasks as allocated and ensure that they are reviewed by the Partner/Director/Manager/Senior Associate/Associate for risk management compliance prior to sending out any draft or final reports while observing 100% compliance to Quality and Risk Management Policies, Standards and Procedures.
Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, IT or related relevant degree course with Second Upper degree/GPA 3.0
- Must have attained a mean grade of B in KCSE, Math and English.
- Entry level role.
Personal attributes:
- Interpersonal Skills: Must be able to build strong relationships with people of diverse personalities.
- Global Behavioral Capabilities: strong demonstration of KPMGs global behaviors.
- Demonstrate and articulate KPMG values.
- Strong organizational skills and creativity: Be able to develop new simple approaches to problems.
- Compliant with KPMG Code of Conduct, independence rules, and all other applicable firm policies and professional practice standards.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills both written & verbal presentations.
- Flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks.
- Willingness to work under supervision and learn new skills quickly.
- Attention to detail; Have very good attention to detail.
- Pragmatic Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems and provide effective solutions.
- Personal and Professional Ethics: Must operate and practice within the professional code of conduct, look and act professional and be honest, with self and colleagues.
We offer:
- An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
- Continuous learning and development.
- Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
- Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
