About the position
Job Purpose
To conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance with standards.
Job Responsibilities
Strategic insights & Client Centricity:
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, emerging risks and industry trends (including competitors and digital trends).
- Understand current business strategy, reality, impact of transformation, digital initiatives, risks and expectations and consider key and/or emerging risks to update the annual risk-based annual audit plan, in order to support relevant GIA
- Be commercially minded with and understand the broader business strategy in the auditing
Transformational Assurance:
- Lead and execute audit assignment planning, fieldwork and reporting in line with the Group Internal Audit (GIA) methodology and Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), including file
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems through agile
- Identify and assess the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of manual and automated controls within audit scope and utilising data
- Identify and ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines in line with audit
- Influence stakeholders to address inefficiencies in resolving audit findings through utilising professional experience in demonstrating benefits of best audit practice.
- Ensure continuous improvement of the quality of audits through providing professional
- Ensure improved productivity and efficiency and the delivery of projects within agreed
- Achieve operational excellence and support the implementation of business optimisation improvement in
- Apply professional judgement in all audit
- Deal with complex verbal and documented information and data in the audit
Digital Platform & Data Driven Audits:
- Apply knowledge of banking sector, digital transformation, and emerging risks to assess and engage with stakeholders on large-scale and complex changing environments, data, ITinfrastructure and technology and determine best approach and testing strategy to provide insightful reporting.
Integrated Risk and Control Environment
- Engage with the risk and compliance community to ensure coordinated assurance approach and assessment of risk and control to ensure scope is appropriately defined.
Impactful Reporting:
- Prepare quality, relevant and commercially astute assignment and reports that provide intelligence and meaningful insights that enable the management of risk to be a strategic and competitive differentiator .
- The ability of story-telling and writing reports in a succinct and concise manner which is visually appealing and at an appropriate level for various stakeholders and governance forums, including Group Audit
Business Partner Relationships:
- Build and maintain an open and constructive relationship during and outside of scheduled as a Trusted Advisor with senior internal and external stakeholders including External Audit and Business Executives and the risk and compliance
- Build trusting relationships and improve credibility and quality of audit outputs by achieving team objectives through engaging with staff, peers and other departments for reporting
Effective Leadership:
- Create an environment of teamwork that contributes to Group Internal Audit (GIA);
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and
- Contribute to the Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys ).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business.
Process Optimization
- The ability to understand business processes and to assess where efficiencies can be built into the
People Specification
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification
- CA (SA)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and optional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA)
Preferred Certifications Type of Exposure
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas.
- Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Auditing
- Interacting with diverse people
- Analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data
- Financial services; preferable banking - retail and commercial exposure (products and or/channels)
- Communicating standards to others
- Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends
- Process optimization
Minimum Experience Level
5+ years in banking (preferably within Auditing, Risk or Compliance)
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Banking experience and emerging risks
- Changing digital landscape and technology
- Data
- Continuous Monitoring
- Client Centricity, Treating Customers Fairy and Conduct
- Business Acumen and Commerciality
- Report-writing skills
- Ethics and Fraud
- Reputational risk management
- Governance, Risk, and Controls
- Regulatory, Legal and Economics Principles
Behavioural Competencies
- Managing Work and demonstrating individual drive
- Team orientated
- Building Partnerships
- Quality Orientation
- Continuous Improvement
- Work Standards
- Courage
Desired Skills:
- banking experience
- loyal
- Stress Management
- Deadline driven
- team orientation
- courage
Desired Work Experience:
