Senior Audit Manager: Wealth
Nedbank
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
GIA receives its authority from the Group Audit Committee (GAC), which is a committee of the Board of Nedbank Group Limited established to, among other things, review the work of Internal Audit of Nedbank Group Limited and its subsidiaries (the "Group").Job ResponsibilitiesInsurance industry
- Deep insurance industry strategic and transformation experience for a minimum of 8 years.
- Understand and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, emerging risks and insurance industry trends (including competitors and digital trends).
- Understand current insurance industry and 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.
- Apply knowledge of insurance 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 advisory / consulting and insightful reporting.
- Apply practical project management experience gained to large transformation projects ito delivery of strategic intent (including SAFe principles)
- 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.
- Engage with the risk and compliance community to ensure coordinated assurance approach and assessment of risk and control to ensure scope is appropriately defined.
- 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 Nedbank.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- BComm, BCompt, BSc (mandatory)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and optional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) (optional)
- Strategic insights, consulting and advisory
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas.
- Conducting quality assurance reviews
- 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
- Communicating standards to others
- Insurance (mandatory); advantageous wealth, asset management and banking
- Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends
- 8+ years strategic and transformation experience (including project management ain accordance with SAFe principles) within 1st, 2nd or 3rd line of assurance or consulting / advisory related services.
- 8+ years in insurance (mandatory) and/or wealth management (advantageous).
- Insurance (mandatory) and wealth, asset management and / or banking (advantageous) experience and emerging risks
- Strategic and Transformation experience (including project delivery)
- Project Management - Execution and delivery of projects (including understanding of SAFe principles)
- Changing digital landscape and technology
- Data Management, Governance, Migration
- Data Analytics and Continuous Monitoring
- Business Acumen and Commerciality
- Consulting and Advisory experience
- Client Centricity, Treating Customers Fairy and Conduct
- Report-writing skills
- Ethics and Fraud
- Reputational risk management
- Governance, Risk, and Controls
- Regulatory, Legal and Economics Principles
- Managing Work and demonstrating individual drive
- Team orientated
- Building Partnerships
- Quality Orientation
- Continuous Improvement
- Work Standards
- Courage
- Adaptability and change ready