Company Profile

This position is posted for Senior Auditor position at MSE.

MSE Certified Auditors Partnership (Formerly A.W. Thomas L.P.) was established in 1981 and has been in practice throughout Ethiopia since then. We have 4 partners and over 50 professional audit staff with extensive experience in the private sector, NGOs and Government enterprises.  We are one of the two RIG approved auditors in Ethiopia to audit USAID resources throughout Africa and our quality control procedures were considered robust by other donors as well including the World Bank, European Commission, BFW...etc.

We are also a member of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the leading accounting firms in the world

Job Description

• Assist in managing engagements, ensuring compliance with client and other statutory requirements
• Participate in the budgeting, planning, co-ordination and control of engagements in accordance with client and other statutory and business requirements to ensure effective service delivery and maximized recover ability
• Direct, coach and mentor audit trainees to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements and the direction of their subordinates ensuring cost effective, timely completion and effective service delivery to the required standard on each engagement.
• Assist managers in preparing the audit plan for clients considering the audit risk and in accordance with the risk assessment and arrange and plan meeting for discussion with audit team
• Ensure the audit is progressing as per the time budget and ensure timely completion of audits
• Ensure adherence to audit plan and involve to oversee the work of assistants and audit trainees
• Create worthwhile relationships with clients, business departments and staff, for the sharing of information and
• Assist the manager in monitoring the effectiveness of audit services delivered

Number required: 5

Qualifications and experience:

• BA degree in accounting and finance
• Demonstrable external audit experience of more than five year

Knowledge, Skills, Competence:

• Open-minded, self-learner
• Able to work multiple tasks efficiently and meet tight deadlines.
• Team spirit/working in a team
• Interpersonal communication and negotiations skills
• Computer skills including the ability to operate spreadsheets and word-processing programs
• Disciplined, organized