Audit Portfolio Manager (6-month contract) - Banking

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POSITION INFO:

Job Purpose
To conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in
accordance to business standards.

Job Responsibilities
Strategic insights & Client Centricity:
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, emerging risks and industry trends
(including competitors and digital trends).
• Understand current 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.

Transformational Assurance:
• Lead and 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.

Digital Platform & Data Driven Audits:
• Apply knowledge of banking 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
insightful reporting.
Integrated Risk and Control Environment
• Engage with the risk and compliance community to ensure coordinated assurance approach
and assessment of risk and control to ensure scope is appropriately defined.
Impactful Reporting:
• 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 the business.
• 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.

Business Partner Relationships:
• 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.
Effective Leadership:
• 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 business' building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business
strategy.

Process Optimisation:
• The ability to understand business processes and to assess where efficiencies can be
built into the process.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification
• CA (SA)
• 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 Certifications
Type of Exposure
• Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas.
• 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 – retail and commercial exposure (products and
or/channels)
• Communicating standards to others
• Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends
• Process optimisation

Minimum Experience Level
5+ years in banking (preferably within Auditing, Risk or Compliance)

Technical / Professional Knowledge
• Banking experience and emerging risks
• Changing digital landscape and technology
• Data
• Continuous Monitoring
• Client Centricity, Treating Customers Fairy and Conduct
• Business Acumen and Commerciality
• Report-writing skills
• Ethics and Fraud
• Reputational risk management
• Governance, Risk, and Controls
• Regulatory, Legal and Economics Principles