Current Job Openings at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic Function

• Support the implementation of the business unit (BU) balance score card (BSC) initiatives

Product Management

• Support the HR team in the execution of recruitment and selection processes, including drafting job descriptions, posting job vacancies, screening resumes, and scheduling interviews
• Assist with conducting interviews and reference checks, as well as participating in the selection decision-making process
• Assist in coordinating onboarding and orientation activities for new hires, facilitating an efficient and positive experience for employees during their integration into the organization
• Support the maintenance of accurate employee records, updating employee information in HR systems, and generating reports
• Support the performance management process including the preparation of performance appraisal materials and tracking performance evaluation timelines
• Assist with employee training and development initiatives, including scheduling training sessions, organizing training materials, and tracking employee participation
• Assist with employee engagement initiatives and events, helping to foster a positive and inclusive company culture
• Support employee relations efforts by addressing basic employee inquiries, escalating complex issues to HR professionals, whilst maintaining confidentiality in sensitive matters
• Stay up-to-date with HR laws, regulations, and best practices to ensure compliance with labour laws and drive continuous improvement in HR processe
• Provide administrative support in various HR functions, such as preparing HR documents, drafting internal communications, and maintaining HR databases

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Manage the feedback process to stakeholders by tracking all queries received, getting the relevant information and formulating appropriate responses according to the approved protocol
• Liaise with relevant key internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective coordination, communication and coverage of allocated work and internal issues

People Management

• Manage own performance to drive productivity
• Participate and/or take lead in the business unit transformation/culture plans
• Provide support to the management team with regards to centre management and other people related tasks

Financial Management

• Ensure compliance with 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

• Minimum qualification of Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Industrial & Organisational Psychology, Social Science, or any related field.

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Audit Process

Planning

• Advise audit teams on technical matters related to the infrastructure sector
• Assist audit teams in identifying audit risks for the specific audit engagement in the built environment
• Assist the manager in resource planning for selected audits in the built environment/ infrastructure field
• Liaise with the manager and assist in compiling a budget for the audit and communicate this to audit team for selected audits in the infrastructure field
• Assist the manager to facilitate engagement meetings (entrance engagement) with management of auditees to discuss the scope, focus areas, objectives, methodology and due dates and
• Support the audit team to ensure that they receive the relevant documents to execute the audit.

Execution

• In collaboration with the audit team, execute, technical audit procedures on selected audits in the infrastructure field
• Consistently update the manager on the status of the selected audits in the infrastructure field
• Complete audit working papers on selected audits in the infrastructure field for review by the manager
• Provide coaching notes on reviewed working papers for selected audits in the infrastructure field
• Attend steering committee meetings (at least two per audit; first and final steering committee meetings) with departments and related senior management
• Assessing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities on infrastructure projects
• Assessing cost analysis for infrastructure projects
• Review risk assessments, value management and cost control reports on infrastructure projects
• Analyzing the costings for tenders awarded by government departments on selected infrastructure projects
• Analyzing outcomes and writing detailed and high impact audit reports on audited infrastructure projects

Reporting

• Compile technical and management reports for review by the manager for specific audits in the infrastructure field
• Contribute to impactful and relevant recommendations to government, programmes or audit areas in the infrastructure field
• Conduct and report on site visits
• Report on value of completed work on selected infrastructure projects

Research

• Review working papers and memos on research undertaken in the infrastructure field
• Interpret and synthesise information related to goals, strategies, policies and guidelines in the infrastructure field
• Oversee the undertaking of research in the infrastructure field to provide advice to internal stakeholders through sharing insights, risks and knowledge of the business and industry  
• Compile relevant memos on research of complex and challenging audit themes  arising from government and international priorities/programmes in the infrastructure field

People Management

• Manage the performance of staff, provide mentorship and support
• Identify opportunities to develop staff through on-the-job training and coaching
• Manage teams’ performance and implement a culture of high performance
• Address staff related enquiries
• Execute and adhere to transformation/culture plans

Stakeholder Engagement

Internal

• Build and maintain strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders within the AGSA (both Regularity Audit and Performance Audit) to ensure support during the audit process for both integration and stand-alone audits
• Provide guidance to stakeholders through sharing insights, risks, and knowledge of the business and industry to improve their understanding of technical matters in the infrastructure field
• Market the value of performance audits and develop initiatives for sharing insights, risks and experiences with regularity audit Business Units.
• Regularly engage with team members through centre meetings to discuss relevant audit work

External

• Build and maintain strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders at the auditees, in line with the Business Unit stakeholder engagement plan
• Assist in preparing for interactions with the Executive Authorities on key findings/outcomes.
• Ensure impactful, quality and meaningful engagements with external stakeholders

Financial Management

• Provide inputs on the formulation of a budget
• Manage own and team recoverability
• Effective project management (time, hours and costs) of the audit and relevant resource planning, to drive audit efficiencies

Administration

• Responsible for effective management of all administrative matters relating to the role. (e.g. timeous approvals, compliance with internal controls, etc.)

Ad-hoc duties (Applicable to All JD’s)

• Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required

Qualifications

• Degree/BTech in Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or any approved built environment etc.
• Post graduate qualification will be an added advantage

Professional Registration

• Professional registration with a Professional Body as required in the built environment will be advantageous e.g. ECSA, SACQSP, SACPCMP etc.

Experience

• At least 3 years’ industry specific experience in the infrastructure/ built environment.
• Experience in construction of buildings such as schools, clinic, hospitals, office buildings, etc. is essential
• Experience in infrastructure projects e.g. roads and storm water, sewer reticulation, water reticulation, social infrastructure (housing, health and education facilities) and bulk earthworks for municipal, provincial or national projects will be advantageous
• Experience in implementation of bulk services &/or internal reticulation

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Strategic Function

• Contribute to the formulation and drive the implementation of the AGSA’s long term strategy in the Business Change and Value office.
• Prioritise strategic initiatives across the AGSA.
• Drive institutionalisation of strategic projects across the AGSA.
• Drive efforts to institutionalise strategic programmes within AGSA, ensuring ownership and accountability across business units and stakeholders.
• Lead the realisation of benefits of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA value chain.
• Influence EXCO structures and interface with PPIC/other relevant committees.

Product Management

• Ensure the integration and alignment of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA.
• Optimize the execution of projects and programmes to ensure benefits realisation across the programme and projects.
• Oversee the Governance, Risk and Compliance process for Programmes and Projects.
• Monitor and evaluate benefits realisation across the strategic projects and programmes.
• Ensure Project Sponsor is accountable for compliance and adherence across the various strategic projects and programmes.
• Manage the optimization of processes, resource allocation across strategic projects and programmes.
• Act as the custodian of strategic programme and project optimisation.
• Influence resource allocation based on impact, benefits realisation, and enforcement.
• Drive the institutionalization and ownership of strategic programmes in the various stakeholder groupings.
• Utilise data to create insights that inform business performance against strategic projects and programmes.
• Ensure benefits realization projects and programmes across the value chain.
• Ensure effective governance, risk, compliance and leadership ownership through the various project and programme stage gates.
• Ensure adherence to the Business Change and Value office framework.
• Resolve Conflicts and escalate to PPIC and / or other relevant stakeholders.
• Act as a mediator to resolve conflicts among key decision-makers within the organisation and escalate unresolved issues to the PPIC and / or other relevant stakeholders for resolution.

Stakeholder Management

• Drive visibility through effective internal and external stakeholder engagements.
• Implement the stakeholder engagement plan in line with the AGSA stakeholder engagement framework.
• Direct stakeholders through stage gates to deliver on the benefits realisation mandate of strategic projects and programmes.
• Influence EXCO structures, interfacing with the PPIC, and making recommendations for go or no-go decisions based on the Business Change and Value office framework and standards for excellence.
• Establish strong relationships with executive leadership and effectively interface with the Programme and Project Investment Committee (PPIC) to drive decision-making aligned with Business Change and Value office objectives.
• Collaborate closely with People Portfolio to ensure change management on Business Change and Value office capability is embedded and supporting business on change management guidelines on any strategic projects undertaken.
• Provide leadership, oversight and support of key projects and programmes.

People Management

• Participate and/ or take lead in the business unit transformation/ culture plans.
• Provide support to the management team regarding centre management and other people-related tasks.

Financial Management

• Assist in managing and reporting on the centre budget in accordance with the approved finance policies.
• Contribute in compiling of the centre budget, implement and monitor the budget for the allocated projects.
• 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 NQF Level 8 i.e. Master of Business Administration (MBA) or MBA in Project Management or equivalent.

Experience

• Minimum 10+ year’s relevant experience with at least 6 years’ experience operating at a senior management/ executive level in the management of large and complex Digital Transformation, Information Technology and other strategic business-related projects and programs.

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Strategic Function

• Contributes to the strategy, vision, and governance of the business intelligence capability.
• Support the long-term strategy-level decisions using customer science techniques.
• Support the implementation of the centre Balance Score Card (BSC) project and initiatives.

Product Management

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging successful initiatives, findings, and analytics techniques to benefit stakeholder decision-making.
• Using machine learning algorithms and techniques to build predictive models and make data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with the senior data scientist and lead data scientist to build data pipelines using workflow orchestration tools.
• Schedule extracts and collaborate with senior scientist to draw data from APIs for analysis.
• Implement and train machine learning (ML), predictive analytics, data mining and artificial intelligence (AI) models to perform predictions and forecast behaviour and transactions, via the use of data, to enable the business to be proactive in decision making.
• Undertake the processing of structured and unstructured data to utilise in data science activities.
• Support the data analysis of large information to discover trends and patterns and provide feedback to the business.
• Highlight potential value in data science and articulate recommendations to best deliver business goals.
• Provide support in the implementation of configurable analytical models within the department.
• Support business functions through feasibility analysis and modelling, root cause analysis, decision support modelling, supply chain design modelling and analysis.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.
• Provide support to senior data scientist and lead data scientist to ensure the most optimised technical process is implemented across the business.
• Use statistical software to analyse, identify and assess data attributes to develop recommendations.
• Consolidate and analyse a variety of data in various formats across all business areas and propose mechanisms to make the business more efficient.
• Process, cleanse and assess the effectiveness of new data sources and data-gathering techniques to enhance analytics and business intelligence.
• Support in the delivery of data science and related projects on time, with the desired functionality, at the defined quality level in a sustainable way.
• Implementation of the Hackathon events
• Research, benchmark, design, implement and validate algorithms/models to analyse diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes and provide recommendations to senior data scientist and lead data scientist.
• Identify, review, and promote creative ideas and approaches to enhance the continuous improvement department.
• Ensure optimal utilisation of technology solutions, keeping pace with innovations in data science capabilities.
• Conduct continued research in developing best in class statistical and machine learning models.
• Monitor, measure, support, and report on analytical results to ensure appropriate business recommendations and insights.
• Prepare statistics, dashboards, and information for management to derive business decisions.

Stakeholder Management

• Establish, build, and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.
• Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Proactively interact with stakeholders to determine their needs and deliver on them accordingly.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers to continuously improve service delivery.
• Work in collaboration with senior data scientist and lead data scientist, business intelligence and data governance to ensure timeous delivery of the work.
• Establish and maintain relations with recognized professional bodies within their own professional sphere.
• Manage service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.Participate and / or take lead in the business unit transformation and culture plans.
• Review the work of peers assisting in the execution of work.
• Create development plans with staff to ensure alignment to latest technology trends.
• Provide support to the management team with regard to centre management and other people-related tasks.

Financial management and Operational Management

• Contribute to the compilation of centre budget, and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• Ensure compliance with 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

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in quantitative management (decision sciences) or Computer Science/Statistics/Applied Statistics/Applied Mathematics
• Honours will be advantageous

Preferable certifications:

• Data science
• SQL Server (MCSA: SQL Server)
• Microsoft Certification in data, data science or artificial intelligence

Experience/ Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of related experience working on data exploration and visualization tools.
• Experience with common data science toolkits such as SQL essential R, SQL, and sometimes Java or C++. Python
• Machine learning/ Artificial Intelligence and Statistical algorithm development.
• Experience in leading hackathons
• Experience and exposure to cloud solutions.
• Working with large volumes of structured and unstructured data and leveraging them to build artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) and predictive modeling (PM) solutions through end-to-end automated data pipelines.
• Experience in developing data mining techniques and models across various algorithm types, understanding use case applicability.
• Machine learning operations (MLOps) for AI/ML model deployment and monitoring/enhancements for standalone solutions or as part of a larger product.

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Roles & Responsibilities

Product Management: Pro Active reviews and audit quality support

• Keep abreast of changes in audit Quality Management (QM) related audit standards and ensure AGSA compliance at audit engagement level.
• Assist in development and implementation of audit Quality Support policies and procedures in the operations of the AGSA and ensure compliance with the relevant audit standards.
• Co-ordinate and implement pro-active reviews that actively respond to audit quality risks and ensure quality on AGSA audits before issuance of audit reports. This can be done on a number of AGSA high profile and significant risk engagements
• Participate in any other pro-active strategic initiatives to drive the improvement in audit quality before the issuance of audit reports in terms of the AGSA strategy.
• Analyse transversal Quality Support (QS) findings for each audit cycle and communicate/consult with the audit, and support business units to facilitate corrective action. (Conduct awareness sessions to the different audit business units.)
• Implement and monitor remedial actions in line with ISQM 1
• The audit quality reviewer will also be expected to assist the Quality Management business unit (BU) in performing monitoring of QM complience in accordance with the monitoring requirements of the International Standards of Quality Management (ISQM) and specific requirements as determined by the AGSA. These reviews will be performed at the discretion of the BU Leader.

Stakeholder Management

• Provide QM related technical advice and guidance to top management and auditors in respect of engagement performance and associated processes.
• Continuously engage with various audit stakeholders and provide the necessary support.
• Manage own performance.
• Participate and/or take lead in the BU’s transformation, culture, diversity and employment equity initiatives.
• Provide support to the Senior Manager with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks.

Ad-hoc duties

• Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the job description as and when required

Skills, Experience & Education

The successful candidate should possess the following:

• CA (SA) ;
•  ± Six years’ post-qualification experience (with 3 years at manager role);
•  ± Two years Inspections/ QC reviews experience advantageous;
•  Public sector audit experience advantageous;
•  Excellent technical knowledge and experience in auditing and financial reporting standards;
•  Above average performance and behavioral record.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of statutory requirements and standards of the accounting and auditing discipline (e.g. International Standards on Auditing)
• Ability to project manage and execute projects
• Critical thinking and risk awareness.
• Effective problem solving ability.
• Conflict tolerance.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Discreet handling of confidential and contentious information
•  Exercising authority and displaying professionalism, especially in strenuous situations.
•  Ability to handle conflict situations.
• Proactive and works well under pressure.
• Able to deal with various tasks at once and meet deadlines.
•  Able to deal effectively with individuals at all levels within the AGSA.
•  Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to respond and adapt to changes quickly
• Practical experience in Audit Quality reviews will be an added advantage.
• ISQM 1 experience would be an added advantage

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Strategic function:

• Contributes to the development and maintenance of the finance strategy and funding model to support the CFO and AGSA's strategic objectives.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to the CFO, understanding challenges and provides recommendations.
• Manages all strategic initiatives and deliverables of the CFO office.
• Provides decision-support to the CFO and advises where applicable on strategic matters relating to the DAG organisational strategic commitments.
• Co-ordinate the reporting for the CFO portfolio on a monthly and quarterly basis.

Strategic Support:

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

Reporting:

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

Project Management:

• Provides a project management function for all strategic project deliverables in the office of the CFO and monitors progress and performance.
• Functions as first line of review for proposals and requests for approvals presented to the office of the CFO.
• Pro-actively considers and drafts responses to correspondence, preparations of memorandums and submissions, in consultation with the CFO.
• Preparing CFO 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 CFO’s customised stakeholders and strategic plan.
• Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Communicate the strategy and objectives to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure understanding of these by all relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and manage service level agreements (SLAs) within the portfolio.

People Management:

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Provides support to the CFO in the cascading of the vision achievement/ organisation alignment messages and commitments.
• Advise the CFO on the on the implementation activities relating to people plan to include transformation and culture plans

Financial management and operational management:

• Contributes to the compilation of centre budget and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• Ensures compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Manages supply chain processes within scope of work.
• Drive the compilation of the CFO office budget in alignment with thebudget guidelines and cost optimisations targets and manages project expenditure related to the functional area.
• Ensure that CFO approvals are in line with the Management approval framework (MAF) and related policies and procedures.

Other Responsibilities:

• Performs and/or manages other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Qualifications - CA (SA) or MBA 
• Experience - Minimum of 7 years’ experience of which 5 years experience should have been operating at a manager/middle manager level

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Strategic Function

• Support the implementation of the business unit balance scorecard projects and initiatives.

Product Management

• Responsible for creation of application packages and deployments in SCCM.
• Responsible for employment of application packages to End Points.
• Administer and specialize in Microsoft System Center (SCCM) Configuration Manager Capabilities to ensure network patch management, distribution and compliance functions are met.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SCCM client health issues that prevent patches from automatically installing.
• Troubleshoot SCCM deployment issues of application packages and when necessary, engage with Support Team to ensure a complete and accurate delivery.
• Generate management reporting on patch compliance and SCCM client health by device type.
• Address Security gaps emanating from the current approach and formulate an efficient plan-of-action.
• Prioritize vulnerabilities according to its relevance and criticality in the environment.
• Analyse and assess the current state of the User End Points in relation to vulnerability, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory management and patching requirements
• Evaluate existing monitoring tools (InTune), configure the same (incorporating MS existing tools) to provide a consolidated effective monitoring system that will proactively monitor, control, identify software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, hardware and software assets, patch management and vulnerabilities.
• Providing other General IT Support as per allocated calls.

Stakeholder Management

• Maintain effective relations with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Build collaborative relationships with internal and relevant stakeholders.
• Support initiatives of sharing insights, risks and experiences.
• Manage the feedback process to stakeholders by tracking all queries received, getting the relevant information and formulating appropriate responses according to the approved protocol.

People Management

• Manage own performance to drive productivity.
• Participate and/or take in the business unit transformation/culture plans.
• Provide support to the management team with regard to centre management and other people related tasks.

Financial management and Operational Management

• 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 a National Diploma (NQF level 6) in Information Technology, Computer science OR  related.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience and working knowledge of patch management processes and deploying patches, specifically Microsoft patch and updated deployments on User End Points.
• Understanding the use of Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) and how to utilize the SCCM solution to ensure a health patched Microsoft environment is required.
• Experience in identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities across different platforms.
• To focus more on vulnerability management, patching, penetration testing, and compliance