Audit Manager - Johannesburg at FirstRand Group

Are you someone who can:

• Provide management over a portfolio of clients and deliver high quality audit and assurance service, including preparing and reviewing audit plans and work.
• Maintain the highest technical and professional standard.
• Think strategically about client needs by understanding their business and key risks.
• Manage the quality of audit work output to ensure excellence is achieved through the application of end-to-end integrated risk-based reviews.
• Ensure that the audit team continually identify and report on potential financial, operational risks (including IT risks) and regulatory risk when conducting audits
• Ensure that actual vs. approved/revised plan (including special requests) achieve the required coverage %
• Manage the Annual Audit Plan, continually reassessing and revising based on key or emerging risks.
• Identifying ways to maximise the relationship with clients and deliver added value by elevating our status to trusted partner / trusted advisor.
• Ensure excellence in reporting to governance structures (Audit Committee, Risk Committee, Regulatory Committee)
• Ensure the efficient utilisation of tools / techniques to improve audit efficiencies (CAAT's, flow charts, research, ADR/Google, analytical reviews.
• Interact with all assurance providers and actively participate in various executive and committees’ meetings.
• Ensure that the audit team reach their goals through monitoring and performance management.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• A qualified Chartered Accountant/ BCom honours Degree.
• with financial savvy, a strong background in Financial, Operational (including IT) and Regulatory Risk Management.
• 5+ years of internal / external audit experience, ideally with exposure to financial services and the banking industry.
• A post-secondary qualification in IT e.g. CISA/CISM accreditation would be advantageous.
• Team player with strong interpersonal, communication and project management skills including leading teams of at least 5 team members.

You will have access to:

• Challenging work in a complex and exciting environment
• Opportunities to innovate and create efficiencies.