Senior Manager - Deputy National SAICA Training Officer at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Minimum Requirements:

• CA(SA) with preferably Training Officer Experience to drive compliance with the SAICA Training Regulations
• Preferably a Registered SAICA Assessor
• Senior Manager or Associate Director
• CA (SA)

Responsibilities will include:

Communications

• Monitor the SAICA shared mailbox and support trainees by responding to their queries and providing guidance with their 3 years article requirements to achieve their CA(SA) trainee program
• Develop all communications to trainees, managers and assessors, including when TSRs/PSRs/LORs are due, ANA/PDA deadlines etc. and other pertinent information including CA 2025 training program
• Develop all communications to trainees and managers regarding professional exams ie ITC and APC.

LTS (second years and third years)

• Monitor LTS for all late submissions and sign offs of trainees, reviewers, counsellors and assessors

New Electronic Assessment Tool - EAT (first years)

• Monitor LOR and PDA for all late submissions and sign offs of trainees, reviewers, counsellors and assessors

Training

• Stay abreast of the Responsibilities of the Training Officer, as per the SAICA Training Regulations
• With L&D, diarise all LTS/EAT training events for trainees, reviewers, counsellors and assessors
• Preparation and distribution of training material (LTS/EAT and Ethics training)
• Facilitate training of LTS/EAT for Trainees, Reviewers, Counsellors and Assessors and the Ethics training for trainees
• Create all simulations with L&D and mark all simulations with the assistance of managers

Registered assessors

• Allocate trainees between registered assessors
• Review a sample of assessors to ensure quality of ANAs and PDAs
• Conduct in-house training for managers to become Registered Assessors

Professional exams

• Manage the relationship between SAICA and the board course service providers/vendors regarding professional exams including payment – EY specific programs
• Responsible for the analysis of all professional exams results for both ITC and APC

Other

• Continuous updates to the generic training plans for both SAICA 2016 curriculum and the CA 2025 programme
• Ensure that the share drive is kept updated with all the current SAICA documents
• Full accountability and responsibility covering the SAICA training office role as envisaged in the SAICA Training Regulation guidelines and supplemented by EY specific initiatives
• Facilitate and prepare all supporting documentation for the various SAICA office visit reviews – perform a root cause analysis on the SAICA report and implement action plan to address findings
• Responsible for the preparation of monthly LTS/EAT reports to be shared with trainees, managers,  STO regional champions, Talent managers ,TELs etc
• Responsible for tracking the supervisors that are at risk of not being signed off – co-ordination with talent managers, counsellors and resource managers on an appropriate development plan
• Co-ordination of monthly meeting with Talent managers and STO regional champions
• Co-ordination of weekly STO meeting with Training officer and STO support team
• Represent EY at SAICA meetings related to training program
• Manage and oversee the Training office team (currently 3 staff)