17 Oct
Isilumko Staffing JHB
Johannesburg
Job PurposeTo conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance to business standards.
Job ResponsibilitiesStrategic 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 reporting.• Be commercially minded with a Nedbank client centric approach and understand the broader business strategy in the auditing approach.
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 completion.• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems through agile thinking.• Identify and assess the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of manual and automated controls within audit scope and utilising data analytics.• Identify and ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines in line with audit scope.• 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 insights.• Ensure improved productivity and efficiency and the delivery of projects within agreed timelines.• Achieve operational excellence and support the implementation of business optimisation improvement in GIA.• Apply professional judgement in all audit interactions.• Deal with complex verbal and documented information and data in the audit process.
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, IT infrastructure 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 for the business.• 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 Committee.
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 community.• 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 purposes.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 responsibilities.• Contribute to the business' building initiatives (e.g.
staff surveys etc.
).• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
Process Optimisation:• The ability to understand business processes and to assess where efficiencies can be built into the process.
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 CertificationsType 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 optimisation
Minimum Experience Level5+ 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
▶️ Audit Portfolio Manager (6-Month Contract) - Banking
🖊️ Isilumko Staffing JHB
📍 Johannesburg