LUCENT Advisory
As an Audit Trainee you will be supporting Audit Seniors on the delivery of audit assignments on a broad range of clients, covering a number of sectors – sizes ranging from privately owned business (POB) up to fully listed companies.
Your role will be supporting the Audit Team in forming a view on whether the information presented in a financial report, reflects the financial position of the organisation at a given date.
You will support the Audit Team in drafting reports which express the opinion drawn from the Auditors on whether the company’s financial statements are accurate and free of misstatements whether due to fraud or error.
The outcome of your work will contribute to providing various stakeholders with assurance of an organisation’s financial and accounting records.
Job Role
Planning
- Assist the senior with the planning of assignments
- Support the Audit Team in performing preliminary analytical reviews to identify risk areas, calculating ratios and considering expected trends
- To ensure sound knowledge of a client and its industry by researching background information and useful publications
The Assignment
- Carry out analytical review – examining financial and accounting records and other documents and items
- Attend client meetings as and when required
- To start to build client relationships
- To communicate any issues or findings arising from the audit fieldwork
- To apply technical knowledge gained from studies and on the job experience, and ensuring knowledge is up-to-date
Completion
- Assist in closedown of audit files and clearing review points
- Identify management letter points in conjunction with the Audit Team
Administration
- Ensure timesheets are completed on a weekly basis
- To have an awareness of the various services provided by Lucent
- To maintain professional working relationships with clients throughout the fieldwork and social activities
- To continue to increase and maintain technical knowledge by attending college and reading various accountancy journals and newspapers
- Attend all training courses as required
Person Specification & Academic Requirements
- Demonstrates strong analytical and research skills
- Effectively able to manage projects
- Takes ownership of assigned tasks
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Ability to produce accurate and timely work
- Participates in meetings, providing information and ideas with clarity and persuasiveness
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Respects differences in people and values diversity of ideas
- Actively offers assistance to colleagues
- Applies active listening skills – asks questions when necessary but makes basic assumptions when appropriate
- Ability to build relationships
- Actively seeks to enhance own expertise and knowledge
- Demonstrates drive and commitment to self development
- Professional approach to work and clients i.e. professional appearance, respect for individuals, and ethical conduct
- Adopts a pro-active approach to work
Academic Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in accountancy or taxation from any reputable university. (Diploma holders can also apply but must have at least a B in English and Mathematics at CSEE)
- To maintain a gender balance in our office, we encourage more applications from females.
Employment Contract & Study Support
After a training program of six months, we will evaluate your performance and if satisfying, you will earn an employment contract and or place you in our clients’ office for a role that will match your compentence.
HOW TO APPLY
- Send the following to the application email as shown in this advert
- Application letter expressing why we should choose you for this program
- Your academic certificates
- Three contact persons (preferably your academic referees)
SPECIAL NOTE:
All applicants must not have any work experience as our aim is to train and introduce them to the professional career.
To apply, visit our website at https://lucent.co.tz/job/audit-trainees/