Current Vacancies at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice & support in area of specialisation enabling the provision of an approved audit plan in compliance with auditing methodology. Co-creating a high performance audit team that is fully digitised in execution and reporting by encouraging a culture of innovation

Minimum Experience

• 5-8 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 1-2 years at a specialist level

Technical Competencies

• Demonstrate strong knowledge of IT, data and cybersecurity frameworks (COBIT, ITIL, ISO27002, TOGAF, NIST, etc)
• Strong technical skills in network controls or system implementations including reviews of routers, switches, firewall security
• Demonstrates a broad overall understanding of IT governance, corporate IT processes and information security functions.
• Provides insights and appropriate recommendations on the IT risk areas.
• Engages with senior stakeholders to clear adverse audit reports.
• Understands IT and data analytics including emerging IT trends
• Must be able to systematically identify, analyse and resolve existing and anticipated problems in order to reach optimum solutions in a timely manner

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and Advanced Diplomas in Information Technology or Similar
• CISA Qualification would be highly advantageous
• Data Analytics qualification will be advantageous

Process

• Understand and apply existing best practice frameworks to assist in the implementation of identified subject matter processes and standards.
• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Ensure that the auditing process provides accurate and up to date data in alignment with Org. financial reporting standards and requirements.
• Verify, evaluate and report on operational and managerial processes, systems and outcomes to ensure financial and operational integrity and compliance.
• Ensure the effective comparison between application with system and client details in order to control and minimise potential fraud risk.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.

Customer

• Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Adhere to financial controls, governance and compliance policies and processes throughout an area of specialisation, contributing to cost efficiency.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Implement and provide feedback on the effectiveness of financial policy, practice and procedures: preventing illegal, unethical or improper conduct.
• Create awareness to ensure the effective implementation of changes in policy, laws, regulations and associated industry practices.
• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.

Behavioural Competencies

• Professional/Technical learning (Intermediate)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Intermediate)
• Governance, Ethics and Values (Intermediate)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Intermediate)

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Purpose

• The Business Analyst will fill the role of being a vital link between the Data Management Information Technology capacity (i.e., FRID) and business objectives by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing, and deployment tasks of FRID's software products features. The Analyst will be required to help the team members to map, analyze and document the technical requirements.
• Additionally, the Business Analyst will have a responsibility to coach and train newly-on boarded entry-level and junior Business Analysts on the Knowledge Areas defined by the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK). 

Responsibilities

• Gathering user business requirements by meeting with business users,
• Coordinating and facilitating various project workshops,,
• Creating to-be view (solution design) of the business, system, and data perspectives,
• Developing Contextual, Conceptual and Logical views,
• Preparing source to target mappings for the ETLs,
• Developing pseudo-code and code for functional requirements,
• Developing procedures, packages, schedule jobs, once ff extracts,
• Supporting half-yearly valuations including data checks, business recon, assisting business queries, business report extracts, etc.
• End-to-end experience with testing framework including strategy planning, environment-setups, test planning, verification, validation, scripting, execution, and review,

Additional Responsibilities

• Requirement Management Lifecycle - analysing, evaluating and solutioning functional as well as non-functional requirements,
• Proficiency in handling business, system, and data troubleshooting
• Developing strong, sustainable relationships with users & project teams,
• Leading the quality assurance of all team deliveries,
• Leading and coordinating internal audits,
• Assisting senior management teams and coordinating external audits
• Analysing and time to time reviewing operating procedures and policies,

Experience

• Minimum 3 years Business Analysis experience.
• Experience in the delivery of large scale and complex custom development projects; and
• Minimum 3 years Business Process Modelling experience.
• Consulting background / experience would be an advantage.