Job Description

Join SAPRO for Australia’s Busy Season – Independent Contract Opportunities

SAPRO is looking for Experienced External Audit professionals to support our clients in Australia for the upcoming busy season. We are preparing now, and we want top talent with prior Australian busy season experience.

• Contract Duration: July 2026 to October 2026
• Industry Exposure: General & Commercial
• International experience: Prior Australia busy season experience essential
• Audit Software: CaseWare (mandatory)
• Location: South Africa or Zimbabwe (Remote)

Senior – Minimum Requirements:

• ITC / Board 1 Pass (non-negotiable)
• Fully Qualified ACA / ACCA / CPA
• 4+ years external audit experience
• Prior Australia busy season experience
• CaseWare software experience essential
• Ability to review and coach junior team members
• Experience auditing and documenting basic and complex audit sections

Senior In-Charge – Minimum Requirements:

• ITC / Board 1 Pass (non-negotiable)
• Fully Qualified ACA / ACCA / CPA
• 5+ years external audit experience
• 2+ years leading teams and managing audits end-to-end
• Prior Australia busy season experience
• CaseWare software experience essential
• Experience planning audit budgets and resources
• Proven track record reviewing and signing off on work papers

What you will do:

Provide a broad range of fully integrated audit services for our global clients. (Plus below per level)

Senior:

• Provides timely, high-quality deliverables covering complex sections, with a reasonable number of workpaper comments. 
• May facilitate fieldwork, coordinate deliverables from multiple team members. 
• Demonstrates depth of knowledge of methodology, relevant standards, and systems and may collaborate with Manager to guide associates, interns and monitor productivity and workplan schedule. 
• Proactively addresses client concerns and escalates issues as they arise. 
• Interacts with clients and engagement teams to help ensure the information flow from the client to the team is efficient. 

Senior In-Charge:

• Provides timely, high-quality deliverables covering complex sections while overseeing fieldwork, coordinating deliverables from multiple team members.
• Demonstrates a depth of knowledge of systems, methodology and can educate and redirect team members. 
• Leads the team through the engagement and prepares financial statements, related disclosures, and reportable conditions letters, focusing on quality and accuracy. 
• Actively monitors productivity, budgets and ensures adherence to work plan schedule.  

Behavioural and technical requirements:

• Proactive communicator.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to problem-solve and address issues in a timely manner.
• High learning agility.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

If you meet the requirements and are ready to take on a challenging, rewarding independent contract assignment for Australia’s busy season, apply now!

Note:

• Should you be successful in your application, you are expected to have access to the internet, and to ensure that the internet connection is uninterrupted and always accessible. This should be, at minimum, a fibre connection with a proven bandwidth of least 20 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload, and a latency not exceeding 30ms. This connection should be sustainable in the event of power interruptions. 
• Audit experience and alignment to a specific level within SAPRO, shall be determined based on your individual audit exposure, technical interview and evaluation.
• Generally, we work on a 4 hour overlap with the host firm, however this is client dependent.

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