Assistant Director: Internal Audit, Ref No, DOTP 14/2026 at Western Cape Department of the Premier

Minimum Requirements

• A 3-year B-Degree (equivalent or higher qualification) majoring in Accounting and Auditing; Completion of the General Internal Auditing (including IAT learnership – (three years)) learnership from the IIA plus 2 year internal audit experience.

Key Performance Areas

• Perform engagement planning to acquire an understanding of the audit area and to determine the audit focus; Document comprehensive and accurate systems description using relevant tools to gain a better understanding of the process and perform walk-through to confirm the process is implemented as documented; Develop adequately motivated engagement objectives, based on the correct analysis of the control objectives, cognisant of the risk demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of how risks ought to be mitigated; Compile an Audit Planning Memorandum extracting information from the relevant steps of the engagement planning phase;
• Capture the risks, engagement objectives and key controls ensuring logical flow of the Engagement Work Programme (EWP) and assist with the control adequacy assessment / evaluation; Execute all audit procedures as per the engagement program ensuring that audit working papers are complete and accurate accompanied by useful, relevant, sufficient, and reliable evidence delivered and coaching noted are signed off; Draft audit findings ensuring the elements of audit findings are appropriately aligned and distribute draft report to management.