Careers at FirstRand Corporate Centre

Job Description

• To oversee the audit function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality audit services aligned with strategic objectives. This job involves managing audit teams, developing audit plans, liaising with senior stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement in risk management and internal control frameworks.

Are you someone who can:

• Provide management over a portfolio of clients and deliver high-quality audit and assurance service, including preparing and reviewing audit plans and work.
• Maintain the highest technical and professional standard.
• Think strategically about client needs by understanding their business and key risks.
• Manage the quality of audit work output to ensure excellence is achieved through the application of end-to-end integrated risk-based reviews.
• Ensure that the audit team continually identify and report on potential financial, operational risks (including IT risks) and regulatory risk when conducting audits
• Ensure that actual vs. approved/revised plan (including special requests) achieve the required coverage %
• Manage the Annual Audit Plan, continually reassessing and revising based on key or emerging risks.
• Identifying ways to maximise the relationship with clients and deliver added value by elevating our status to trusted partner / trusted advisor.
• Ensure excellence in reporting to governance structures (Audit Committee, Risk Committee, Regulatory Committee)
• Ensure the efficient utilization of tools / techniques to improve audit efficiencies (CAAT's, flow charts, research, ADR/Google, analytical reviews)

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• A qualified Chartered Accountant/CIA/ BCom honors Degree with tech savvy, a strong background in Financial, Operational (including IT) and Regulatory Risk Management.
• 5+ years of internal / external audit experience is a must with minimum 2 years supervisory or management experience.
• Experience within financial services and banking is beneficial.
• A post-secondary qualification in IT e.g., CISA/CISM accreditation would be advantageous.
• Experience using data analytics is advantageous.

You will have access to:

• Challenging work in a complex and exciting environment
• Opportunities to innovate and create efficiencies.

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Job Description

• To conduct internal audits of moderate complexity to evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls and ensure compliance with policies and regulations. Identify risks and control gaps, provide practical recommendations to enhance operational efficiency and strengthen governance.

 Are you someone who can:

• Obtain a good understanding of the control environment being audited (including information technology, internal financial control, and risk management related aspects), and the interdependencies linked to this.
• Plan audit assignments based on key process and business risks identified and design the audit program in line with risks and key controls to be tested.
• Incorporate data analytics (DA) to enhance audit planning and create efficiencies in audit fieldwork.
• Execute audit field work in compliance with quality standards by following and completing prepared work programs. Assess the adequacy and effectiveness of governance, risk management practices and internal controls.
• Provide clear and sufficient audit evidence to support recommendations and audit opinion.
• Effective communication with the audit team, audit management and key stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal controls, including internal financial controls.
• Identify and clearly articulate the root cause of issues identified and impact thereof and recommend changes to business processes that will address the control weaknesses.
• Prepare a quality and balanced audit report to specified standards, encapsulating the control weaknesses identified and results of audit work performed, with minimal editorial changes.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Qualified CA(SA)/CIA
• At least 3 years’ experience in internal or external audit preferred.
• Articles and professional certifications will be advantageous
• Experience with data analytics will be advantageous.
• Experience in banking or financial services industries will be an advantage.
• Asset and Liability management (ALM) and Group Treasury experience within banking will be advantageous
   

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Job Description

• The ALM (Asset & Liability Management) Risk Analyst assists the team in its oversight role on ALM risk management, specifically for the non-bank portfolios (insurance business and employee benefit schemes), ensuring all ALM risks are identified, measured, analyzed, managed and reported in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Data extraction, integration and analytic techniques to support non-bank ALM risk analysis, reporting and management.
• Analyse treasury data to develop unique insights and strategies for the optimal management of ALM risks – both retrospectively and on a forward-looking basis.
• Assist in setting up and reviewing risk metrics and procedures and help ensure that they are in line with best practice.
• Assist with interpreting and actioning new regulatory frameworks and requirements including ad-hoc requests/quantitative impact studies from internal and external stakeholders
• Provide support for key risk-based project deliverables
• Assist with developing and implementing intuitive and flexible user interfaces, incorporating data analysis and data visualisations that can easily be comprehended and simplified for stakeholders, including non-technical audiences.
• Take ownership of delivery of analytics, MI, and associated reporting on an end-to-end basis.
• Assist with implementation of appropriate risk reporting to various risk, governance and technical committees.
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders.
• Analyse effectiveness and contribute to robustness of the control environment.
• Have an understanding of published regulatory directives relating to insurance entities and ALM risk management where appropriate and help ensure that outputs are compliant.
• Become familiar with group policies and frameworks relating to ALM risks and periphery subject matter.  
• Assist with relevant financial statement disclosures (as it pertains to ALM risks).
• Assist in the internal and external audit process.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Actuarial Science, Finance, Banking, Risk Management, Engineering, Accounting or Auditing and/or other quantitative subjects such as Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and/or similar professional financial qualification such as Financial Risk Management (FRM®), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®).