Internal Audit Manager - Sandton, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited

Absa Bank Limited

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Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The Investment Banking Internal Audit team is looking for a detail-oriented team player with an interest in financial markets who wants gain insight into the firm's operations and control processes.

This Investment Banking environment is a fast paced, dynamic environment with limitless learning opportunities.

Job Description:

Key Accountabilities:

Accountability:
Audit Delivery - Planning 30%

Plan the delivery of assigned audits to a high quality and in line with Key Performance Indicators as per the methodology. This will include adequate resourcing scheduling, meeting key deliverables in terms of audit timelines and review of audit work to confirm that the minimum requirements as per methodology are met.
Develop a detailed knowledge of the methodology by attending training sessions to ensure that approved audits are risk focused.
Act as a mentor for auditors and peers to provide guidance to ensure that their work exceeds quality standards.
Contribute to the annual planning process as requested by the Head of Audit by providing feedback and knowledge in terms of business. This will include identifying auditable entities, assessing the audit needs assessment and preparing all Management Information reports required.
Management of the following: Audit universe, auditable entities, audit delivery, people Develop and maintain relationships with accountable stakeholder management on each audit.
Engage with Internal Audit (IA) colleagues during assignments and request technical assistance where required. Technical assistance may include the review of key risks and controls, review of working papers and audit reports.
Perform audits and issues assurance within Key Performance timelines and resource budget.
Proactively provide onthejob training to the audit team for the audit toolkit
Synergy and confirm through inspection of the audit work that the results of audit work are completed, updated and approved as required by the Quality Assurance scorecard

Accountability:
Audit Delivery - Fieldwork 25%

Develop testing strategies for key controls within the business to adequately mitigate the risks. An example of this is to determine the sample size of the item to be tested, the period in which the sample will be selected from and then determine the applicable test to confirm that the control is operating effectively.
Manage the execution of Design Effectiveness Testing (DEA) and Operational Effectiveness Testing (OET) of the audit team in line with methodology requirements and as per the requirements of the QA scorecard.
Review the DEA and OET working papers of controls tested.
Based on the reviews performed, provide effective feedback to audit staff during the audit assignment to confirm that working papers are completed in line with the AIA methodology.
Engage with management and auditors on progress of audit and to provide regular feedback on issues identified where the control has failed either at a DEA or OET level.
Engage with Centres of Excellences (COEs) during the fieldwork stage and give oversight to COE colleagues working on the audit assignment.
Proactively take on additional tasks as delegated by the Head of Audit.

Accountability:
Audit Delivery - Reporting 25%

Support the Cluster team leadership in generating value add management information for stakeholders by proactively assisting the HoA at the end of each month. This will include obtaining management information from stakeholders and preparing the management information.
Establish effective relationships with CoE counterparts and fully engage them during audit reporting.
Use business knowledge to assess evolving risks, write high quality reports with observations which are insightful, address the root cause, have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk, support the Issues Assurance process and require no further audit work to support them.
Raise observations as early as possible and agree actions before completion of fieldwork and write concise, accurate Executive Summaries.
Deliver high quality audit reports, aligned to the AIA methodology which include all significant issues identified in the audit.
Review management action plans to confirm that the identified risks associated to the control failure are adequately mitigated. Actions plans are to be specific, measurable, timely, achievable and realistic.

Accountability:
Management & Leadership 15%