Business Unit Leader at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic Function

• Contributes to the formulation and drive the implementation of the AGSA’s long term strategy.
• Contribute to the formulation and implementation of IBU strategic initiatives.
• Develop BU Balance Score Card (BSC) and oversee the implementation and reporting thereof.
• Provide technical expertise, strategic leadership, and support for fraud risk identification and AGSA anti-corruption work related issues and processes.

Product management

• Provide strategic advisory services related to regulatory compliance, corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, internal controls.
• Provide technical support and guidance to audit teams.
• Ensure that all risks relating to investigations are properly documented, managed and escalated to top management within the AGSA.
• Support consultations with regularity audit or auditee to arrange for funding and the collection of the relevant debtors.
• Remain up to date with the direction and progress on risk sharing referrals to other PBs.
• Provide direction and guidance on request for investigations.
• Engage audit teams to review request for investigations.
• Review management reports to ensure that the specific format carries the unique message of specific fraud risk indicators as per MAF.
• Ensure that all allegations are addressed comprehensively during RFIs as per MAF.
• Review required documentation and take responsibility for presentations at SCOPA, PAC and other Parliamentary committees.
• Implement quality assurance strategy in the business unit.
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining a proper MIS for request for investigations.

Stakeholder Management

• Interact with the auditees top management, political role-players, over site bodies and other role players.
• Obtain the buy-in of key role-payers before the fraud risk assessments can start.
• Provide value added advice to engagement teams by providing timely coaching and high-quality review observations for the enhancement of integration work.
• Engage with quality teams, CWC firms in the review of audit outputs.
• Develop and maintain collaborative value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs and determine Deliver in accordance with the agreed service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

• Approve the appointment of specialist staff and contracting in and out to ensure that fraud risk assessments are adequately staffed and completed within a reasonable time.
• Participate and/ or take lead in the business unit transformation/ culture plans.
• Provide support to the management team regarding centre management and other people related tasks.

Financial Management

• Support the compiling of the centre budget.
• Implement and monitor the budget for the allocated project.
• Ensure compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Manage supply chain processes within scope of work.

Other responsibilities (Applicable to All JD’s)

• Perform and/ or manage other projects, tasks and assignments delegated by the Business Unit Leader not stipulated in the role profile description as and when required.

Formal Education

• Minimum qualification of CA (SA) or RGA or ACCA with an ICFP/ ACFE / post grad diploma in forensic accounting as an added advantage.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years post qualification experience with at least 4 years in a senior management or leadership role, with exposure in any of the Big 4 Audit firms, Management Consulting and Public Sector in an auditing/ investigative/ forensic environment as an added advantage.