Manager: Internal Audit - Centurion, South Africa - Land Bank Careers

Land Bank Careers

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Centurion, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Job Advert Summary:

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa's only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank's sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach.

These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit.

The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry.

As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Manages a team of internal auditors and insourced auditors that provides an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve the operations, governance, risk management, and control processes of the Land Bank Group (Land Bank and Land Bank Insurance).

Key Performance Areas:

1. Organisational Responsibilities

Align the status, strategy, resources of the internal audit department to the organisation's objectives, governance policy, risk profile & Internal Audits Divisional plan.
Develops appropriate policies, procedures and methodologies to guide the internal audit function, & ensure the quality of the assurance services delivered.
Manage internal audit resources to ensure that the team is appropriate, sufficient and effectively deployed to achieve the internal audit requirements and fulfil its mandate.
Ensure internal auditors have appropriate professional qualifications and skills, & opportunities for sufficient training & development to maintain and develop their internal auditing competence. Develop an annual training plan that upskills the team on an ongoing basis.
Coordinate internal audit activities and plans with other internal & external providers of assurance and consulting activities to ensure proper coverage & minimise duplication of effort.
Ensure that Institute of Internal Audit (IIA) audit standards are complied with.
Drive the Combined Assurance Model implementation and collaboration between Internal Audit, Compliance, Forensics, Risk Management and External Audit.

2.

Audit Planning and strategy:

Review & update all internal audit policies and procedures and present it to senior management
Consults with business to develop the 3 year rolling plans which are riskbased to set out the priorities of the internal audit function, consistent with the organisational objectives and risk profile
Considers the input of senior management, senior departmental management, of the audit and risk committees and the statutory auditor in the development of the plans.
Prepares report detailing the annual and 3 year rolling plans and resource requirements for the internal audit function, including significant interim changes to the audit committee and obtain the necessary approval from the Audit Committee. This communication shall include the impact of resource limitations.

3. Audit Execution and Quality Assurance

Directs audit staff and insourced audit staff in the planning, organising, directing and monitoring of Internal Audit operations, including assisting in hiring, training & evaluating staff; and taking corrective actions to address performance problems.
Identification and evaluation of the organisation's risk areas and development of the annual Audit Plan.
Develops, guides and directs the overall performance of audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing and analysing evidence, and documenting client processes and procedures.
Drives integrated audits with IT Audit and Forensics.
Directs, guides and reviews the staff in conducting interviews, reviewing documents, developing and administering surveys, composing summary memos, and preparing working papers.

4. Audit Reporting

Compiles final audit reports and discusses with management with input from the audit team
Prepares written reports on the results of audits and consulting projects
Provide reports on internal auditing engagements to the audit committee and management as per the Internal Audit Methodology
Prepares quarterly audit committee and risk committee reports detailing the most critical issues along with management progress towards resolving them.
Prepares the quarterly Combined Assurance Report to the Audit Com