Senior Manager at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic Function

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of customised business applications to support the AGSA's business operations.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to DAG, understanding challenges and provide recommendations.
• Manages all strategic initiatives and deliverables of the DAGs office.
• Provides decision-support to the DAG and advises where applicable on strategic matters relating to the DAG organisational strategic commitments.

Strategic Support

• Conceptualises, develops and implements initiatives in the DAG Office and provides a project management function for key strategic audit deliverables.
• Develops project charters to govern the execution, management, monitoring, and evaluation of the strategic projects in the DAG’s office along with those of relevant cross-functional initiatives led by the DAG.
• Identifies improvement opportunities and areas of risk which needs to be addressed based on stakeholder engagements.
• Provides support to the DAG with actions based on outcomes of internal and external engagements and track progress thereof.
• Provides administrative support to the DAG office to review all submissions and assist with follow-ups for information were applicable.
• Review and prepare summary notes for all submissions to DAG office at least 3 days before the meeting/session/workshop or any other engagement.
• Compile first draft outputs on behalf of the DAG and refine these based on feedback from him
• Taking the lead on special projects on behalf of the DAG, especially cross-functional initiatives.
• Tracking organisational progress on strategy and strategic deliverables, anticipating and identifying risks and providing relevant recommendations on mitigations, acceleration and removal of strategic roadblocks.
• Collecting, analysing and packaging of relevant organisational and external intelligence and presenting to the DAG to support decision making.
• Management of workflows flowing into and out of DAG office, making sure review, analyse and appropriate route to the inbound receipts and appropriate summation and framing is done before sharing it with DAG as a response to share with internal or external recipients.

Reporting:

• Tracks and reviews reports including organisational quarterly and annual reports and provides input into the relevant quarterly reporting.
• Ensures that all products/services including reports/messages adhere to the relevant quality standards as agreed with the DAG.
• Functions as first line of review for proposals and requests for approvals presented to the office of the DAG.

Project management:

• Provides a project management function for all strategic project deliverables in the office of the DAG and monitors progress and performance.
• Functions as first line of review for proposals and requests for approvals presented to the office of the DAG.
• Pro-actively considers and drafts responses to correspondence, preparations of memorandums and submissions, in consultation with the DAG.
• Preparing DAG for meetings -reviewing and analysing packs, engaging with relevant participants to source information.

Stakeholder Management

• Builds and maintains positive and value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provides strategic support and guidance to key stakeholders and BU management to ensure alignment.
• Scans the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Liaises with internal and external stakeholders and facilitate the implementation of stakeholder programmes based on the DAG’s customised stakeholders and strategic plan.

People Management

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Provides support to the DAG in the cascading of the vision achievement/ organisation alignment messages and commitments.

Financial management and Operational Management

• Contribute to the compilation of centre budget and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• 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 not stipulated on the Job description as and when required.

Formal Education

• This position requires a minimum qualification of CA (SA), MBA or equivalent.

Experience/ Requirements

• Minimum 7 years’ experience of which 5 years should have been post qualification at manager level.