Head of Audit - Johannesburg North at Communicate Recruitment

Qualifications:

• CA(SA)/CIA/CPA
• At least 10 years of relevant audit experience in the banking industry, with at least 3 years of experience working at management level.
• Strong understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements along with local business & economic conditions, particularly within banking sector

Skills:

• CaseWare
• Candidate must already been in external audit specifically banking sector.

Job description:

• To ensure quality and effectiveness of the audit performance through a formal quality assurance and improvement program including internal and external assessments as per IIA Standards
• To issue and update, whenever required, the IA guidelines concerning the operations of IA
• To keep a close liaison with the Head of the Group Internal Audit in updating on emerging risk/control/fraud/regulatory /external audit-related matters
• To directly report to the Board Audit Committee providing regular updates on all audits, reports, issues, remediation actions and special focus engagements
• To liaise on a regular basis, with the Management Committees of the bank ensuring compliance to audit exceptions
• To maintain effective relationships with co-sourced auditors, external auditors and regulators, assist as necessary.
• To ensure a productive team environment to promote coordination, continuous learning and mutual growth at all times.
• To provide direction & guidance to audit team to improve workflows, for quality & operational efficiency, meet the assigned turn around time at all times
• To execute and report progress on the approved annual audit plan
• To conduct a comprehensives risk assessment of the Bank on annul basis and to formalize a risk based audit plan ,for approval by the audit committee.