Head of Management Assurance: Relationship Banking at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Accountable for defining the Management Assurance (MA) plan for Absa Relationship Banking (RB) and manage the delivery of that plan. The incumbent will also partner with assurance providers to prepare a combined assurance plan for the business and report on progress against the plan. The Head of Management Assurance is also accountable for ensuring that assurance assignments are executed in compliance with the Management Assurance methodology.

Job Description

• Assurance:
• Deliver value adding assurance services to ensure adequate CPA coverage, and assurance on other emerging risks facing the business.
• Plan the delivery of assigned audits to a high quality including adequate resource scheduling, meeting key deliverables in terms of audit timelines and review of audit work to confirm that the minimum requirements as per methodology are met.
• Ensure issues assurance validation supports the business units issue management process and closure validation of (MA) issues takes place within agreed timelines.
• Leadership and Management: Mentor and coach less experienced team members by providing guidance around the methodology and audit process and manage the teams that assigned to the assurance work effectively by delegating audit work to empower each individual team member.
• Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching. Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members.
• Reporting of combined assurance plan progress and key outcomes and insights from assurance activity.  
• Lead Quality Assurance on Critical Process Assessments.
• Stakeholder Management and Leadership:
• Build relationships with the business on key initiatives, attending key committees and sharing their view of the business’ control assessments
• Lead a team of professional and subject matter experts, some of whom may be line managers.
• Assign work and perform line management responsibilities, providing direction and guidance to direct reports while maintaining an in-depth knowledge of activities in each area.
• Guide, review and approve work carried out on audit assignments to ensure the scope of work is appropriate, controls are correctly identified, assessed, and carried out in accordance with MA Methodology.
• Embed the performance culture and role model Group values and behaviours
• Actively contribute to the wider talent development of the function through coaching, mentoring, providing constructive feedback Attract and retain talented individuals who can contribute to the MA Function.
• Qualifications: Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications will be advantageous.
• Experience: + 7 years of experience Auditing and Management and Leadership of teams

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)