Assistant Manager: Financial Audit With IT Audit Skills
Bidvest Bank
- Sandton, Johannesburg
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Qualifications BCom (Honours) or equivalent
- 2 – 3 years related post qualifying experience
- Customer Orientation.
- Attention to detail.
- Business acumen.
- Organisational alertness.
- Building Relationships.
- Teamwork.
- Initiative.
- Energy and Drive.
- Independence.
- Conscientiousness.
- Personal Development.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of the Bank.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding banking and business environment.
- Reviewing audit working papers and files for quality and factual accuracy.
- Reviewing audit reports for technical correctness i.e. grammar etc.
- Strong computer literacy and an interest in using IT in audits.
- IT auditing experience.
- Business and system controls and process documentation.
- Strong affinity for Data Analytics and Data Analytics tools.
- Willingness to share knowledge and experience
- CIA
- CA(SA)
- 2 – 5 years related post qualifying experience.
- Complete audit assignments within allocated time frames.
- Monitor and manage own time keeping (for each engagement and for the year) in line with board-approved budget.
- Monitor and manage direct report time (for each engagement and for the year) keeping in line with board-approved budget.
- Assist with managing and executing Audit Committee approved Internal Audit plan.
- Improve Internal Audit efficiency by (1) increasing the number of audits completed for the year; (2) reduce audit budgets per engagement; (3) reduce the timeline between performing the audit and issuing the audit report.
- Assist to implement and drive the new Internal Audit strategy to automate and centralise.
- Contribute ideas and improvements to existing audits and to roll out our new audit strategy to centralise and automate.
- Innovate current audit procedures with the use of technology and data analytics. Data analytics to be incorporated into every audit.
- Obtaining a detailed understanding and knowledge of the areas being audited as part of planning activities and drive it as part of our planning process that all team members adopt this approach.
- Deliver quality services (consultation and value-add audits) to stakeholders.
- Provide timely solutions/feedback through interpretation of the business requirements of stakeholders.
- Increase turnaround time (reaction time) to stakeholder requests and provide support and assistance to stakeholders by going the extra mile.
- Increase volume of work delivered and number of ad-hoc requests delivered on.
- Develop effective working relationships with all stakeholders. Enhance the effectiveness and credibility of Internal Audit by explaining Management's roles and responsibilities to prevent and detect fraud.
- Monitor progress of audits, coach staff members on a continuous basis.
- Execute Internal Audit methodology and ensure compliance of team members to the methodology.
- Be involved with the audit process throughout and monitor audit quality in planning, execution and reporting.
- Ensure all work is documented in quality audit files.
- Perform audit work and review working papers, report and files in a timely manner before reports are issued.
- Provide all stakeholders with regular feedback on the progress of assignments and audit findings.
- Provide all stakeholders with regular feedback on the progress of assignments and audit.
- Support Managers, Senior Managers and Head of Internal Audit to manage the team.
- Actively lead the team members to deliver quality and on-time audits and audit reports.
- Actively contribute to teamwork within the department.
- Forge and maintain quality interpersonal relationships.
- Take accountability for the achievement of operational objectives within own area of control.
- Support and drive the core values of the organization and department.
- Maintain a positive attitude and drive.
- Respond openly to feedback.
- Promote harmony and teamwork.
- Promote the sharing of knowledge.
- Display willingness to help others and to be helped by others.
- Actively develop and coach team members.
- Identify inherent risks that are relevant to the process under review and ensure that appropriate risks have been identified by team members that are relevant to the process under review.
- Perform adequate analytical risk assessment procedures to identify risks.
- Translate defined inherent risks into a documented format.
- Assess/evaluate defined risks in terms of potential impact and likelihood, for the purpose of designing an appropriate audit response (searching for appropriate key controls and developing appropriate control tests).
- Perform and/or review adequate analytical risk assessment procedures to identify risks.
- Ensure that the appropriate key controls have been identified to address the inherent risks for the processes under review.
- Conceptualise and/or assist to identify expected control activities that will address the identified inherent risks for the process under review.
- Identify and document key controls based on (i) the understanding of the process under review, and (ii) the risk assessment.
- Identify control gaps, i.e. where expected control activities or equivalents thereof cannot be matched to the actual controls that were identified and documented.
- Interpret key controls in terms their properties, i.e. objective, frequency, response, and automation.
- Open or ensure audit files are opened for each engagement in a timely manner.
- Plan or ensure that all audits are appropriately planned prior to kick off.
- Update or ensure that the audit files are updated by team members through-out the engagement.
- Document and review the audit working papers and file on a continuous basis
- Ensure that the audit file is reviewed before the audit report is prepared.
- Prepare and/or review audit reports in a timely manner.
- Provide clear and factually correct observation statements including a detailed root-cause analysis that make business sense. All observations are supported by appropriate (valid and sufficient) audit evidence.
- All observations are supported by appropriate (valid and sufficient) audit evidence.
- Appropriate assessment of the exposure/risk as a result of the errors/break-downs reported upon under the observation statement.
- Attend training to maintain CPD for qualification.
- Actively coach, train and empower team members to create an understanding of skills and specialties.
- Promote training and development of yourself by attending personal development and job skills development training.
- Promote training and development of team members by motivating and assisting team members to attending personal development and job skills development training.