A Day In The Life Of: A Senior Auditor

7:00 am: Wake up, make myself 2 pancakes and watch the BBC news for around an hour to stay updated. Hit the shower, get ready and head to work

8:00 am: Check my e-mail and my voice mail. My auditing team won’t be here before 8:30 which gives me the chance to plan their individual weekly work sheets and to set their deadlines accordingly.

8:30 am: Team meeting. Briefing about our work for this week and distribution of individual tasks. Q&A session afterwards to clarify some responsibilities and individual duties for the week.

10:00 am: Back to my office. I have been working on the annual financial statements for 10 days now. I sum it up, go over it again and send the draft to the word processing department.

12:00 pm: Time for phone calls: first call to treasury manager with whom I discuss the company’s conformity with debt contract. The second call is to a staff auditor who needs assistance with a “complicated” financial statement presentation. I ask him to meet me in the cafeteria. We’ll have lunch and go over his document.

1:30 pm: Back to my office. Check my e-mails again and spend the afternoon assessing the overall business risk to our sister company. The thing I enjoy most about this job is getting the chance to examine all different business units in order to audit each facility and evaluate the overall business risks.

4:00 pm: That was one long assessment. Time for my recommendations now. I draft down my corrective measures, complete my comments and take a break!

5:30 pm: Time to discuss my study. Meeting with CFO and Finance Manager to go over the details and I honestly hope this meeting doesn’t drag for long

7:00 pm: Out of the office at last. Tonight is DVD night at my place. 4 of my friends are coming over in less than an hour’s time. Pass by the supermarket and get some munchies and call pizza hut for home delivery!

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