Senior Manager Assurance: RBB at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance to Nedbank Group standards.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic insights & Client Centricity:

• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, emerging risks and industry trends (including competitors and digital trends).
• Understand current business strategy, reality, impact of transformation, digital initiatives, risks and expectations and consider key and/or emerging risks to update the annual risk-based annual audit plan, in order to support relevant Assurance reporting.
• Be commercially minded with a Nedbank client centric approach and understand the broader business strategy in the assurance approach.

Transformational Assurance:

• Lead and execute assurance assignment planning, fieldwork and reporting in line with the assurance methodology.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking.
• Identify and assess the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of manual and automated controls within the scope  of work and utilising data analytics.
• Identify and ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines in line with assurance scope.
• Influence stakeholders to address inefficiencies in resolving findings through utilising professional experience in demonstrating benefits of best practice.
• Ensure continuous improvement of the quality of assurance through providing professional insights.
• Ensure improved productivity and efficiency and the delivery of projects and assurance assignment within agreed timelines.
• Achieve operational excellence and support the implementation of business optimisation improvement in assurance.
• Apply professional judgement in all assurance interactions.
• Deal with complex verbal and documented information and data in the assurance process.
• Digital Platform & Data Driven Assurance reviews:
• Apply knowledge of banking sector, digital transformation, and emerging risks to assess and engage with stakeholders on large-scale and complex changing environments, data, IT infrastructure and technology and determine best approach and testing strategy to provide insightful reporting.

Job Responsibilities Continue

Integrated Risk and Control Environment

• Engage with the risk and compliance and audit community to ensure coordinated assurance approach and assessment of risk and control to ensure scope is appropriately defined.

Impactful Reporting:

• Prepare quality, relevant and commercially astute assignment and reports that provide intelligence and meaningful insights that enable the management of risk to be a strategic and competitive differentiator for Nedbank.
• The ability of story-telling and writing reports in a succinct and concise manner which is visually appealing and at an appropriate level for various stakeholders and governance forums.

Business Partner Relationships:

• Build and maintain an open and constructive relationship during and outside of scheduled as a Trusted Advisor with senior internal and external stakeholders including Internal and External Audit and Business Executives and the risk and compliance community.
• Build trusting relationships and improve credibility and quality of assurance outputs by achieving team objectives through engaging with staff, peers and other departments for reporting purposes.

Effective Leadership:

• Create an environment of teamwork that contributes to RBB Risk;
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).

Minimum Experience Level

• 5+ years in banking/ financial services industry experience (preferably within Auditing or Risk)
• 5+ years’ experience (minimum 5 years with Internal auditing/risk management experience and a minimum of 2 years with people management experience.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• CA (SA)

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and optional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA)

Type of Exposure

• Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas.
• Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with Risk community and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Auditing
• Interacting with diverse people
• Analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data
• Financial services; preferable banking – retail and commercial exposure (products and or/channels)
• Communicating standards to others
• Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends.