Vodafone Recruits New Staffs This Jan. 2018

Vodafone Ghana, formerly Ghana Telecom, is the national telecommunications company of Ghana. In 2006, it had around 400,000 customers for fixed and mobile telephony and Internet services.

On 3 August 2008 it was announced that Vodafone had agreed to acquire 70% of Ghana Telecom from the Ghanaian government at a cost of US$900 million and a total enterprise value of approximately US$1.3 billion. After the transaction closed, Vodafone had a 70% stake in the company, while the Ghanaian government retained a 30% stake. The sale was supported by President John Agyekum Kufuor but strongly opposed by the opposition party which would win the presidential elections a few months later. The new president John Atta Mills, head of the National Democratic Congress party (NDC) also launched an investigation into the deal after being elected president a claiming that the government “did not get value for money”. Despite these claims Vodafone a few months later would write down the value of its stake in Ghana Telecom by £250m as the economic climate worsened, damaging the business’s prospects.

Role purpose:

• Support the audit function to give the Local & Group Boards and Management, risk based independent assurance of the effectiveness of the Vodafone Ghana’s internal controls.
• Support the delivery of risk based audit activities (operational and technology) to identify potential control weaknesses and make recommendations to mitigate related key risks.
• Provide value add insights to provide business and drives positive change in control environment
• Build and maintain communications with the community of auditors within the Group Internal Audit

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Internal Auditor

Key Accountabilities

Impact on the business – Identify and report on significant control weaknesses

• Undertaking audits inside and outside own territory in accordance with the Vodafone Group IA guidelines and in line with the IA Methodology:
• Support and challenge the business to effectively identify, manage and report on operational and IT business risk, including ensuring that committees and governance structures are functioning effectively
• Assist in ensuring the control environment is sustainably satisfactory by continuous monitoring and offering other ways to achieve this
• Maintain accurate records to support and satisfy audit trails
• Record and report project milestones in accordance with audit guidelines
• Identify, analyse, evaluate and record sufficient information to achieve the audit’s objectives
• Ensure sufficient evidence in audit working papers and file
• Understand and assess the risk profile of relevant processes
• Exercises appropriate judgment when quantifying the significance of risks and the effectiveness of compensating or mitigating controls
• Identify and communicate apparent failures in control framework within processes
• Determine control frameworks that manage risk profiles through interview and testing
• Collaborate with colleagues and external auditors to support audit requirements
• Lead special projects on request of senior management
• Ensure that the internal audit activity maintains its independence and objectivity

Leadership and teamwork – Assist the Audit Manager in any matters relevant to run the cluster IA team

• Undertake any activities related to running the local audit function
• Support audit planning process by assessing PRM areas to identify impact/likelihood of high risk areas
• Advise the business on compliance and policy issues.
• Resources
  • Support quick and efficient integration of new employees by training/coaching on the job
  • Develop and conduct training for new employees locally and in co-operation with other parties of the audit community

Enable the Group to satisfy the Corporate Governance requirements of the various regulatory authorities on whose exchanges the Group’s shares are listed

• Support the company by complying with Governance requirements :
• Take part in Key Control Questionnaire programme (Review and Recommend)
• Assist in preparing the Audit Committee report and be able to assist the Audit Manager to facilitate Audit Committee meetings
• Help develop and maintain a strong working relationship with the external auditors

Undertake activities to ensure that high risk areas are subject to greater focus than low risk areas

Issue Tracking

• Interact with management to ascertain progress of the improvement activities defined according to auditing results.
• Coordinate issue tracking activities within the team, including keeping audit database up-to-date
• Provide timely and appropriate feedback on outstanding issues to be reported to Exco and the Audit Committee
• Provide periodic updates on the status of the outstanding audit findings 

• Finance and/or accounting / or equivalent qualification (university or college)
• ACCA, CISA,CIA or similar qualification
• Qualified accountant or CISA qualified with 3- 5 year post qualification experience
• Effective time management skills
• Ability to influence people positive change – sell benefits so people want to change
• Confident and comfortable dealing with senior leadership