Internal Auditor - Durban, South Africa - MANCOSA

Description

MANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private Higher Education distance provider, offering Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications, has/have the following vacancy/vacancies available: Internal Auditor - (Durban)

Internal Audits


Undertake audits by:

• Developing audit scopes and generating audit working documents
• Communicating audits to the relevant process owner/s

Documenting and evaluating systems and controls to determine their existence, adequacy, effectiveness and continuity to ensure the following:

• effectiveness and efficiency of operations

- compliance to regulatory requirements and institutional policies and procedures
- reliability and integrity of information safeguarding of assets

• Engaging with staff throughout the audit with the view to ensure conformity with applicable policy and procedures in all phases of the audit process
• Providing guidance where such policies and procedures do not exist and with the implementation thereof
• Consolidating results and compiling audit reports
• Developing and discussing findings, recommendations and time lines (or corrective action with responsible person of operations audited and monitor the impl8mentation status of agreed recommendations
• Establishing audit review dates within a 5year cycle.

Risk management

Establish and implement the institutional risk management strategy:

• Develop and implement institutional risk management plan and facilitate cascading of the plan to the departments
• Identifying procedural gaps and risk areas within business processes
• Collaborating with operational and academic staff to establish internal mechanisms by which to mitigate risks and develop policies, procedures, standards and systems surrounding the risks
• Reviewing the effectiveness of the implemented mechanism/internal controls to reduce risks and advise relevant process owner/s of findings
• Monitor implementation of the risk mitigation plan stemming from risk assessments conducted
• Conducting research to determine best practices and benchmark against other institutions to enhance the management of quality processes and at times this may require collecting, analysis and interpreting statistical data.
• Roll out institutional Risk Assessment awareness campaign

Promote quality standards


Promote quality standards throughout the organisation by:

• Participate in reviewing institutional documents including but not limited to policies, procedures, website content and other materials for stakeholder consumption
• Providing guidance for the development of standard operating procedures for departments
• Conduct surprise audits and observations in departments and meetings

Quality Assurance Management System (QAMS)


Monitor the implementation of the QAMS by:

• Contribute towards committee activities and implementation of resolutions
• Provide reasonable assurance that correct and current documents are maintained on the QMS
• Provide reasonable assurance the submission of quality documents required from departments
• Monitoring the implementation of planned quality improvement initiatives
• Contribute to the cascading of QAMS to all departments
• Internal Audit & Risk Assessment components of QAMS Ecosystem are blueprinted, with accompanying matrices and forms
• Ensure institutional compliance with POPIA

Investigations

• Conduct and/or coordinate investigation for noncompliance with and/or violations of the institution's policies and procedures, and other regulations.

General Duties

• Generate departmental reports at specific annual intervals
• Organise and conduct meetings and presentations, develop appropriate templates for meeting documents, collate information and generate meeting packs and record minutes of the meetings
• Filing of reports with the appropriate annexures
• Develop forms and templates for utilisation within the institution
• Office administration
• Partaking on special projects and committee work

Minimum Requirements:


Qualifications:

Diploma specialising in auditing
Preferably Bachelor's degree specialising in auditing

Experience
At least three years of experience directly related to auditing duties and responsibilities in higher education.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to analyse and solve problems
• Ability to supervise and train assigned staff
• Ability to successfully communicate policies, and procedures in a manner easily understood by stakeholders
• Knowledge of current changes and developments in the South African Higher Education landscape
• Ability to work effectively with diverse people
• Ability to analyse processes and make recommendations for improvements
• Knowledge of the Institution's and regulatory auditing policies, standards, and procedures