The Auditor-General of South Africa ("AGSA") is established in terms of section 181(1) (e) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act No.108 of 1996) as a state institution supporting the constitutional democracy. The constitutional functions of the AGSA are set out in section 188 of the Constitution and sections 4 of the Public...
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Requirement Overview
- To provide guidance and support to the performance analysts / auditors in the planning, execution and reporting of value for money audits (integration), diagnostic audits, regulatory audits and performance audits in the most economic, effective and efficient manner by leveraging on industry expertise and knowledge.
Roles & Responsibilities
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
- 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
Skills, Experience & Education
Qualifications
- Degree/BTech in Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or any approved built environment etc.
- Post graduate qualification will be an added advantage
Professional Registration
- Registration as a candidate Engineer/technician with the ECSA or SACQSP is mandatory.
- Professional registration with a Professional Body as required in the built environment will be advantageous e.g. ECSA, SACQSP, SACPCMP etc.
Experience
- At least 5 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
Knowledge
- Public sector knowledge or exposure to government infrastructure projects will be advantageous
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Requirement Overview
- The purpose of the role is to provide insights from research to identified on audit topics that are impactful and auditable, and consistent with the SAI’s mandate. Stay abreast of new developments and trends in performance audit to share insights with the teams to ensure that standalone performance audits, value add projects and integrated audits, are planned, executed, and reported on, in the most economic, effective and efficient manner. Lead innovation, data analytics and other processes to improve audit efficiencies
Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Function
- Provide inputs and support the implementation of the strategy of the business unit (BU).
- Contribute to the development of plans and ensure alignment with BU BSC.
- Identifying value-add audit opportunities through research, engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
- As research and development will feed into the audit process, ensure all work is done according to the relevant auditing standards and ISQM
Product Management
- Innovation, research and development
- Conduct research (applying applicable/relevant research methods, data analytics, etc) and environmental scanning, to ensure that quality and relevant audit themes and impactful topics have been identified in line with National, sector and AGSA priorities and strategic plans.
- Collaborate with relevant external stakeholders and AGSA business units, to conduct and manage research.
- Regular report back on the progress and results of research conducted.
- Prioritise topics and compile proposals motivating the audits.
- Actively research new developments in auditing, innovation, and tools/aspects/technology for improved audit efficiencies.
- Incorporate research insights and findings into the development of the performance audit products and ensure alignment within the SAS portfolio and Audit portfolio.
- Develop and implement relevant innovative solutions and techniques to guide the performance audit team on rollout of relevant projects.
- Respond to research requests on various topics and produce reports on the insights gained from this research, by actively applying different research techniques or methods, including data analytics.
Development of audits: Standalone performance audits
Planning
- Advise the audit team on risks identified during the research.
- Develop criteria audit questions, and scope in collaboration with the relevant audit team.
- Advise the engagement manager on possible need to appoint external specialists.
- Advise the engagement manager on key audit procedures.
Execution and reporting
- Continue environmental scanning and advise the audit team on risks identified during these stages.
- Compile comprehensive reports after each project including recommended actions/strategies/approaches.
- Development of audits: integration
Planning
- Support PA sector leads in the development of planning.
- Execution and reporting
- Support PA sector leads with specific topic insights.
- Compile comprehensive reports after each project including recommended actions/strategies/approaches.
Training and Development
- Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions of insights, risk and knowledge of the business and industry within the audit team, BU and the AGSA.
- Share the results of research with staff.
- Provide guidance on the execution of data analytics.
Stakeholder Engagements
- Establish, build and maintain strategic and value-adding relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external) to ensure support during the audit process for both integration and stand-alone audits.
- Share insights with internal stakeholders.
People Management (if applicable)
- Manage own and team performance.
- Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.
- Manage staff/ teams performance and implement a culture of performance management.
- Implement initiatives for creation of talent pipeline and succession planning.
- Provide support to the senior manager with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks
Financial 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.
Skills, Experience & Education
Formal Education
- Post-graduate qualification in relevant field e.g. Education, Health, Economics, Computer Science, Accounting and Auditing etc.
Advantage
- Professional registration with relevant Professional Body would be an advantage e.g. CISA, CIA, ACCA, RGA, CA(SA), CISM etc.
Experience/ requirements
- Minimum of 5 years industry specific experience in the Health/Education/Economics/Public Sector etc. (experience in a management role will be an added advantage).
Public sector knowledge
- Experience in research and development
- Understanding of the audit environment, audit standard practices and reporting
- Knowledge of performance auditing will be an added advantage
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Requirement Overview
- To plan, execute and report on a range of performance audit products in an effective and efficient manner with the resources allocated. Engage in integration initiatives with regularity audit and maintain quality stakeholder relations and promote the value of performance audit products.
Roles & Responsibilities
Audit Functional Areas
- Understand the South African political system and government
- Understand government priorities, policies and programmes
- Understand government administration
- Design audit plans
- Perform audits according to auditing standards (which includes financial and performance audit standards)
- Collect data and information/evidence for audit and other assignment purposes
- Analyse annual financial statements
- Analyse and interrogate data and information
- Obtain appropriate and factually correct audit evidence
- Compile audit working papers
- Identify and draft audit findings, problems and challenges with government systems, programmes and service delivery areas
- Identify root causes and effects of audit findings, problems and challenges with government systems, programmes and service delivery areas
- Use information and technology tools such as diagnostic tools, audit accelerators and any other IT tools in performing audits
- Knowledge sharing (audit insights, key risks from research and general knowledge)
- Compile high-quality impactful reports
- Compile high-impact and relevant recommendations on government programmes or audit focus areas
- Develop best practices/guidelines
- Contribute to the risk identification processes at auditees
Research and development
- Research audit themes arising from government priorities/programmes
- Scan the environment, perform trend analyses and assess risks to identify audit themes and necessary interventions in government Identify areas for potential value add work and provide inputs to line manager
Stakeholder Engagements
- Maintain an effective relationship with the regularity audit business units
- Assist with the integration of performance audit procedures at regularity audit
- Maintain visibility at regularity audit for effective interaction
- Support the marketing of performance audit products
- Support initiatives of sharing insights, risks and experiences External Stakeholder engagement
- Support initiatives to market performance audit products
Financial Management
- Manage own work
- Monitor own deadlines
- Manage own productivity and recoverability
- Monitor project budgets and ensure that allocated work is completed within the allocated budget
- Account accurately for own expenditure and time
Administrative duties
- Provide input on the planning of audits, budgeting and other organisational reporting needs
- Assist with organisational reporting needs and initiatives supporting the BU goals
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
Skills, Experience & Education
Qualifications
- BCom Auditing, CIA (part qualified), Internal Audit, Management Accounting
Professional registration
- Registration with a professional body is a requirement (where applicable)
Experience
- 3 years audit experience.
Closing Date 12 March 2024
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Requirement Overview
The Technical Audit Support (TAS) Business Unit (BU) provides technical audit support services to the AGSA to enable the organisation's vision and strategy.
This is accomplished through a technical audit support programme that seeks to enable consistent and sustainable adherence to high quality standards and value add on audits, other assurance and related services engagements performed by the AGSA
The Senior Manager: Legal Support manages a team of legal specialists that guide, assist and support the AGSA to execute its audit mandate, functions and powers in accordance with the law. The Senior Manager is also responsible to build and maintain relationships with internal and relevant external stakeholders to support the AGSA objectives and benefit the public sector in general.
Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Functions
- Provide strategic input in the development of AGSA compliance related strategic initiatives.
- Contribute to the Business Unit (BU) compilation of the Performance Scorecard and drive timely delivery of the scorecard initiatives.
- Ensure that the BU strategic objectives are aligned and contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the AGSA.
- Support the Business Unit Leader and Deputy Business Unit leader in managing key strategic projects of the BU.
Product Management
- Continuously scan the developments in public sector legislation, frameworks and guidance relating to compliance with applicable legislation relating to financial matters, financial management and other related matters and emerging issues to identify audit support needs in the audit of compliance.
- Influence the developments in standard setters/legislative owners with public sector audit insights
- Develop, roll out and maintain guidance related to this AGSA product
- Proactive assessment of technical support needs on this audit product and devising means to address these needs
- Continuously scan for innovative ways of providing support and/or improving the audits we conduct in this space
- Training auditors and leadership on technically complex matters
- Supervise the work of a team of legal specialists when providing technical views on audit consultations.
- Guide the legal specialists (managers) in the planning of project decisions.
- Monitor project execution and adherence to timelines and quality requirements.
- Conceptually integrate the diverse functions legislation, legal matte of legislation, legal matters accounting, auditing, ethics, into technical guidance.
- Formulate new technical policies, procedures and guidance to be followed by the audit staff and develop improved ways of executing the audit.
- Assess the impact of research outcomes and identify stakeholders affected.
- Consult with internal stakeholders to evaluate proposed practices & procedures for validity & practicality.
- Ensure the compatibility and congruence of auditing guidelines with the Auditor General mandate as per the Constitution, Public Audit Act and Professional Best Practices.
- Present information sessions on new developments in law to audit professionals.
- Manage dissemination of information to stakeholders through written guidelines and through the implementation of multiple means of communication to ensure that technical messages are received by audit staff.
- Perform project management on all projects in the centre to ensure that deadlines are met.
- Litigation instituted by and against the AGSA.
- Legal advisory services to AGSA governance structures.
- Resolution of differences of legal interpretation in respect of audits and the material irregularity process.
Stakeholder Management:
- Liaise and interact with all key stakeholders & management to share information, resolve challenges and make recommendations for improvements.
- Influence transformation on compliance with legislation in the public sector through interaction with the regulators and professional bodies
- Engage with various audit business units and provide the required support.
- Provide technical support and advice on compliance matters to audit business units through technical opinions/guidance pro-actively and on request during audit cycles to ensure that quality audits are performed.
- Advise audit business unit and EXCO through submissions & memoranda on relevant research projects.
- Provide technical guidance on compliance matters impacting the audits at Technical fora.
- Support BU leadership with technical administrative functions for technical support stakeholders such as relevant and timely responses on consistency matters, emerging issues, stakeholder feedback, and regular feedback on progress on technical support developments.
- Timely and relevant inputs to/from other Technical Audit Support centres in other areas of specialism on integrated support tools.
- Support to stakeholder BU in the preparation for reporting
People Management
- Manage team performance to drive productivity.
- Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.
- Appointment of contract in staff/pooling of staff to ensure that risks and resource requirements are properly addressed.
- Implement the activities outlined on the BU People Plan.
- Cascade Vision achievement/ organisation alignment messages and commitments.
- Contribute to transformation/culture plans.
- Participate in initiatives to attract talent.
- Ensure on-going development of specialist skills and transfer of specialized skills in BUs.
- Performance management of centre in line with Balance scorecard and staff as per individual performance contracts
- Support collaboration and resource sharing initiatives for managers and assistant managers in the different centres in technical audit support to improve succession planning and technical audit support business continuity.
- Recruit and appoint staff and manage retention of staff
Financial management:
- Responsible for compiling and managing the centre budget to ensure adherence to the required financial performance standards.
- Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
- Ensuring return on investment in terms of staff cost by managing and monitoring productivity of staff.
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
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
- Admitted attorney or advocate of the High Court of South Africa
Experience
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience (post qualification) of which at least five (5) should have been as a legal advisor/practitioner at middle management.
- Authoritative knowledge of all public sector legislation, frameworks and guidance relating to compliance with applicable legislation relating to financial matters, financial management and other related matters is an added advantage.
- Experience in research and development of guidance related to compliance with legislation support will be an advantage.
- A good performance record of accomplishment in the specialist area of auditing compliance is an advantage.
- Experience in leading and coordinating the activities of a team of qualified professionals is an added advantage
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Conflict management
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Sound mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
- Highly adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease.
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Requirement Overview
The purpose of the role is to establish and maintain strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders that will enable engagement and advocacy that leads to culture change. Identify and secure opportunities for engagement with AGSA leaders that activates stakeholders to be part of the solutions. Furthermore to persuade stakeholders to be advocates of the AGSA messages and advocate for culture change in the public sector. The incumbent will be expected to effectively and efficiently activate and report on the key role players in the accountability ecosystem. The incumbent will also be responsible for managing the key risk and ensure an achievement of the AGSA strategic goals
Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Function: Environmental Scanning
- Identify and build strategic relationships with stakeholders to enable informed engagements with the AGSA.
- Develop and provide strategic written advise on the implementation of stakeholder strategy with outline on identified potential threats, opportunities and problem solving approach
- Analyse and manage stakeholder interests and requirements and provide a report that will inform stakeholder strategy and plan
- Perform an analysis and report on the monthly and quarterly environmental scanning by ABU’s to elevate key influence insights, opportunities or threats to the AGSA – this to include the whole accountability ecosystem.
- Conduct research on the key external stakeholders to understand their unique needs and challenges in order to develop and influence engagement strategy.
- Advise the BUs and other relevant AGSA structures of any significant role player developments or issues identified in the context of the stakeholder environment in order to feed through to BUL level where necessary.
- Monitor and alert management of threats and opportunities from national or international trends in legislative, political, social and economic factors that may impact on the AGSA’s mandate.
- Facilitating clear and transparent communication between the organisation and its stakeholders/ role players. This includes managing communication channels, developing communication strategies, and ensuring that stakeholders receive timely and relevant information.
- Seek partnership opportunities to promote the work of AGSA and advocate for involvement on AGSA’s work.
- Identify stakeholder engagement risks and propose initiatives and mitigations for leadership
- Foster effective stakeholder relations through stakeholder mapping, developing, and implementing programmes to position AGSA as a strategic stakeholder in the accountability ecosystem.
- Advocate for conversations both with private and public bodies that are intended at finding solutions to negative audit outcomes as part of influence goal across the accountability ecosystem
- Review and monitoring of key stakeholder activities, processes and any external factors to keep up to date with any developments impacting on stakeholder management
- Tracking of the utilisation of all AGSA reports by oversight mechanisms (e.g. committees of legislatures and municipal councils).
- Cooperation with and support to central AGSA business units in relation to information required for other AGSA general / special reports, or to support the development and implementation of AGSA stakeholder interaction policies and procedures.
Product Management
- Produce quarterly stakeholder influence reports on initiatives, needs and requirements to measure progress and propose initiatives for the next quarter.
- In line with targeted stakeholders on an annual basis, develop a quarterly engagement plan to support influence initiatives of the organisation and drive its implementation.
- Promoting and coordinating the implementation and compliance of AGSA stakeholder interaction policies & procedures within the BU
- Update the policies and procedures in relation to any developments in the area of stakeholder interactions
- Ensure alignment of stakeholder management policies and procedures with other AGSA policies
- Produce presentations for engagement driving messages and notes that leaders should use for engagement
Assistance with audit risks and general report or any other audit report
- Identify audit risks and compile a report that will inform audit BUs of actions required.
- Collect relevant stakeholder information required for the compilation of the general report
- Tracking of the utilisation of all AGSA reports by oversight bodies (e.g. committees of legislatures and municipal councils)
- Cooperation with and support to AGSA business units in relation to information required for other AGSA general / special reports, or to support the development and implementation of AGSA stakeholder interaction policies and procedures.
Management Information System Analysis
- Gather, analyse and synthesise project information captured on MIS and make relevant recommendations on behalf of the BU
- Update the MIS with relevant information after interaction with own key stakeholders
Stakeholder Management
Facilitate the implementation of the influence policy and procedures.
- Provide guidance for SLM induction to activate the accountability eco-system.
- Facilitate content-creation sessions for national, provincial legislatures and council capacitation sessions.
- Facilitate engagement with government and its structures, parliament and non-constitutional stakeholders.
- Assisting with guidance on specific stakeholder changes – eg dealing with disagreements, managing change to SLM’s.
- Coordinate and consolidate information on activities to activate the accountability ecosystem. Including reporting templates for specific information to be submitted. This to be done in a coordinated and cost-effective way.
- Coordinating BU stakeholder interactions and key events, including liaison with respect to and reporting on stakeholder interactions.
- Engage with all relevant internal stakeholders to identify challenges or opportunities where action is lacking in order to ensure that we activate all role players in the accountability ecosystem strategically support parliamentary committees in strengthening the oversight.
- Secure opportunities and advocate for AGSA messages in various platforms both public and in meetings.
- Liaison with key identified external stakeholders in order to provide the BU with timely, accurate and complete information about stakeholder needs, requests and activities
- Provide support to the BU with regard to interaction with those charged with governance and oversight in all three spheres of government in relation to optimal utilisation of AGSA reports (including feedback on the user-friendliness of AGSA reports)
- Support and preparation of leaders in engagements with external stakeholders.
- Engage with all relevant internal stakeholders to identify gaps or opportunities in terms of stakeholder engagements
- Provide monthly feedback reports on the challenges experienced in implementing stakeholder management strategy and policies
People Management
- Manage own performance to drive productivity.
- Participate in the business unit transformation and culture plans.
- Review the work of peers assisting in the execution of work.
- 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 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.
Skills, Experience & Education
Formal Education
- A minimum requirement of a degree in communications, marketing or public relations, political or social science
Experience
- Minimum of six years’ experience in a relevant field:
- Experience in stakeholder liaison and client relationship management
- Knowledge and understanding of the work of government and legislatures
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