Website FirstRand Corporate Centre
The group’s corporate centre includes many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services business. It represents custodianship and has ultimate accountability to external stakeholders such as shareholders and regulators. These functions may sound boring at first g… read morelance – treasury, risk, compliance, governance, audit, finance and tax – but they fundamentally represent the group’s licence to operate. An impressive “below the radar” brains trust is housed in the corporate centre and for membership you will need deep specialist and technical skills, and a talent for excellent stakeholder management at the most senior levels. Building a career in the corporate centre gives you a unique perspective on the entire group. Nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the entire portfolio. This allows for both big-picture thinking and operational learning – a rare combination of opportunities!
Job Description
Manages the utilisation of resources on investigative assignments and projects
Are you someone who can:
Deliver Assurance and Consulting Services
Maintain an IT audit risk universe per business unit.
Prepare an annual IT audit plan per business unit, considering strategic plans and emerging risks.
Identify assurance opportunities and drive an integrated audit approach with the business process audit teams.
Manage the assignment of audits to individual auditors, considering the complexity of the audit and the experience of the auditor.
Engage with stakeholders from and manage external audit reliance requirements on Internal Audit work.
Oversee individual audits:
Ensuring audits are completed in accordance with the audit methodology and audit standards as prescribed by Institute of Internal Auditors.
Ensuring integrated audits are planned and completed in consultation with the business process audit teams and according to timeliness agreed with the business unit, audit committee, etc.
Perform a formal review at the end of each phase of the audit, namely: planning, fieldwork and reporting.
Provide guidance to auditors throughout the audit in respect of the risks and controls on the process being audited, and advising on technical, methodology and statutory issues.
Facilitate discussion of the draft report with the auditee, finalization of management comments, action plans and target dates for implementation.
Facilitating dispute resolution with line management, if required.
Expressing an audit opinion over the acceptability of the residual risk in the process under review.
You will be an ideal candidate if you have:
Extensive experience and knowledge of IT general control reviews, application control reviews and data analytics (CAATS) as a pre-requisite.
An Honours degree in Information Systems or Computer Science.
CISA, CISM, CRISC, CIA or relevant related certifications will be an advantage.
3 years plus management experience in Internal or External Audit as a prerequisite.
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