Audit Portfolio Manager: Data Analytics

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ 141630 Thembi Mtshali

Location: Johannesburg 

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

The objective and scope of work of GIA is to determine whether the Group’s systems of financial and internal
controls, risk management and governance, as designed and operated by management, are adequate and
effective. 

The scope of GIA’s work is determined by a risk-based approach and so the key risks facing the Group,
including subsidiaries, and the requirements of the GAC, subsidiary Audit Committees and the Group and
subsidiary Executive Committees. This should include alignment to business strategic priorities.

Job Responsibilities

•    Support the periodic assessments of the outcomes of internal audit work to appropriate governing bodies, including the GAC and Board Risk Committee.
•    Comply with regulatory and corporate governance expectations of internal audit functions.
•    Report significant issues related to the processes for controlling the activities of the Group, including potential improvements to those processes.
•    Report periodically on the progress of the audit plan delivery with the use of Data analytics
•    Maintain and report on whether GIA has sufficient professional audit staff with knowledge, skills, experience and professional qualifications to meet the requirements of the GIA Charter and audit plan.
•    Have in place a robust process to follow-up management’s agreed actions to address issues raised by accountable for the delivery and measurable performance of their respective portfolio, including audit Group
•    Provide insights from the outcomes of internal audit work to appropriate governing bodies
•    Maintain an open and constructive relationship as a Trusted Advisor with senior internal and external
•    stakeholders including Institute of Internal Audit, SARB, External Audit and Business Executives.
•    Implement effective and efficient audit processes to ensure that audit processes are optimized and comply with regulatory and corporate governance expectations of internal audit functions.
•    Contribute to the development of a 12-month rolling audit plan using a risk-based methodology, taking into consideration specific business strategic focus areas, regulatory requirements pertaining to internal audit, as well as including any risks or control concerns identified by management, the GAC and the Board;
•    Allocate audit resources in accordance with the risk profile for the responsible clusters 
•    Have a robust process in place to follow-up and report on management’s progress in implementing
•    Maintain an open and constructive relationship with the CIA, Executive Manager, Business executives,
•    and key stakeholders by providing value added services and sharing information;
•    Managed the implementation, execution and delivery of data and analytical projects and provide
•    support to other GIA teams;
•    Conduct research, development and implementation of data analytics and data driven solutions covering the entire spectrum from basic analytics to advanced analytics such as Continuous Auditing programmes, predictive modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Essential Certifications

• 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 Qualification

• Minimum required qualification: Commercial, Informatics, Statistics, Computer Science or related degree;   
  Preferably a B.Sc. / B. Com Honours with focus on Quantitative skills, financial engineering, mathematical modelling, data modelling, IT;Relevant Professional Qualifications or Certification: SAS certification, R, Python, RPA, Machine Learning, Big Data, DBMS, SQL, ACL

Types Of Exposures

•    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
•    Financial services; preferable banking
•    Communicating standards to others
•    Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends

Minimum Experience Level

•    Financial services experience in a management position.4 – 5 years of experience in managing and leading teams in executing on Analytical reviews and relevant level of experience in data analysis query development / data warehousing / data mining / data quality / data migration / data visualization/Programming or Software Development.
•    Experience with relevant data analytical foundation tools in SQL, SAS, R, Python, SAP, ACL, IDEA,
•    virtualisation tools such as SAS VA, Microsoft Power BI, R Shinny, R ggplot, Tableau or similar.
•    Knowledge of database design structures and query languages
•    Experience with advance analytics such as Predictive and Prescriptive analytics, Development and/or
•    execution of software robots (RPA)
•    Knowledge about emerging data analytic technologies.
•    Banking experience, inclusive of client facing experience (preferably). Ability to operate at a Manager level

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

Disclaimer

Preference Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

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