Senior Manager Audit and Reporting

My client has a new exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager Audit and Reporting in Cape Town, Northern Suburbs.

Responsibilities:

• To manage a portfolio of Funds, ensuring that the audits of the Funds run smoothly and deadlines are met
• Coaching and training junior staff on engagements directing them per the client's methodology and the Pension Funds Act
• Organising and facilitating the planning meetings to ensure team coherence and understanding of the client service objectives, risk areas, the clients business, the relevant deliverables, and their deadlines
• Reviewing audit team's work before assigning to the Snr Manager Finance for review and ensuring that all audit queries have been adequately cleared by the team members
• Compilation of reports i.e. audit opinion, agreed upon procedures and the report to management
• To manage a portfolio of Funds, ensuring that the audits of the Funds run smoothly and deadlines are met
• Coaching and training junior staff on engagements directing them per the my client's methodology and the Pension Funds Act
• Organising and facilitating the planning meetings to ensure team coherence and understanding of the client service objectives, risk areas, the clients business, the relevant deliverables, and their deadlines
• Reviewing audit team's work before assigning to the Snr Manager Finance for review and ensuring that all audit queries have been adequately cleared by the team members
• Compilation of reports i.e. audit opinion, agreed upon procedures and the report to management
• Review various data analytics tools, which can be utilized audits to produce quality, work faster at the same time fulfilling the audit imperatives for the year
• Planning the audit work-Preliminary analysis of the trail balance, understanding the entity and environment, budgeting, determining materiality and reading minutes to identify significant matters to be noted during the audit and to understand the Fund
• Understanding the clients' business processes, controls and identifying weaknesses in the system and making recommendations
• Ensuring the client adheres to the Pension Funds Act and the regulations per the Financial Sector Conduct Authority and other regulatory bodies
• Ensuring that the investments were invested within the prescribed investment strategy and that the administrator has invested the monies per the client mandates and testing the investments to ensure that all risks identified have been appropriately addressed

Record Keeping and Filing

• Ensure all documentation relating to umbrella funds are saved in the member profile on the system
• Ensure appropriate notes are recorded in the member profile on the system
• Full fund administration system filing

Reporting

• Prepare, analyse and present ad hoc reports as and when requested
• Prepare, analyse and present an accurate report for Trustees meetings
• Have the ability to report at Trustee meetings