Jobs at Land Bank Careers

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To ensure complete and accurate processing of financial transactions.To prepare the monthly recons on the Land Bank Insurance balance sheet accounts, process various journals where necessary, and assist with management reporting. To provide relevant stakeholders with accurate and complete information for reporting and decision making purposes, supporting the accurate compilation of  Financial reports

Key Performance Areas    

• General Ledger Reconciliations
• Bank Account and Administration
• Financial Reporting
• Investment, Insurance & Reinsurance Accounting
• Ensure Adherence to Financial Processes, Procedures and Policies

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• BCom Accounting
• 3 - 5 General Ledger recons
• 3 - 5 Insurance accounting with exposure to reinsurance treaties
• Critical Competencies    
• General Ledger Recons
• Investment Accounting
• Insurance Accounting
• Reinsurance Accounting
• Knowledge / Experience SAP/ Financial Systems
• Budgeting
• Microsoft Office

Additional Requirements    

• Knowledge of the PFMA
• PFMA expenditure compliance
• Knowledge SAP
• Insurance Reporting - Financial Sector Conduct Authority Returns
• Budget management Principles
• Knowledge of VAT act
• Knowledge of the Long Term and Short Term Insurance Acts
• Travel as and when required
• Extended hours as and when required

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Manages a team of internal auditors and insourced auditors that provides an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve the operations, governance, risk management, and control processes of the Land Bank Group (Land Bank and Land Bank Insurance).

Key Performance Areas    
Organisational Responsibilities

• Align the status, strategy, resources of the internal audit department to the organisation's objectives, governance policy, risk profile & Internal Audits Divisional plan.
• Develops appropriate policies, procedures and methodologies to guide the internal audit function, & ensure the quality of the assurance services delivered.
• Manage internal audit resources to ensure that the team is appropriate, sufficient and effectively deployed to achieve the internal audit requirements and fulfil its mandate.
• Ensure internal auditors have appropriate professional qualifications and skills, & opportunities for sufficient training & development to maintain and develop their internal auditing competence.  Develop an annual training plan that upskills the team on an ongoing basis.
• Coordinate internal audit activities and plans with other internal & external providers of assurance and consulting activities to ensure proper coverage & minimise duplication of effort.
• Ensure that Institute of Internal Audit (IIA)  audit standards are complied with.
• Drive the Combined Assurance Model implementation and collaboration between Internal Audit, Compliance, Forensics, Risk Management and External Audit.

Audit Planning and strategy

• Review & update all internal audit policies and procedures and present it to senior management
• Consults with business to develop the 3 year rolling plans which are risk-based to set out the priorities of the internal audit function, consistent with the organisational objectives and risk profile
• Considers the input of senior management, senior departmental management, of the audit and risk committees and the statutory auditor in the development of the plans.
• Prepares report detailing the annual and 3 year rolling plans and resource requirements for the internal audit function, including significant interim changes to the audit committee and obtain the necessary approval from the Audit Committee. This communication shall include the impact of resource limitations.

 Audit Execution and Quality Assurance

• Directs audit staff and insourced audit staff in the planning, organising, directing and monitoring of Internal Audit operations, including assisting in hiring, training & evaluating staff; and taking corrective actions to address performance problems.
• Identification and evaluation of the organisation’s risk areas and development of the annual Audit Plan.
• Develops, guides and directs the overall performance of audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing and analysing evidence, and documenting client processes and procedures.
• Drives integrated audits with IT Audit and Forensics.
• Directs, guides and reviews the staff in conducting interviews, reviewing documents, developing and administering surveys, composing summary memos, and preparing working papers.

 Audit Reporting

• Compiles final audit reports and discusses with management with input from the audit team
• Prepares written reports on the results of audits and consulting projects
• Provide reports on internal auditing engagements to the audit committee and management as per the Internal Audit Methodology  
• Prepares quarterly audit committee and risk committee reports detailing the most critical issues along with management progress towards resolving them.
• Prepares the quarterly Combined Assurance Report to the Audit Committee and Risk Committee and any other report as operationally required
• Prepare quarterly Operational Risk Committee (ORCO) reports and represent Internal Audit at the quarterly ORCO and any other Committee.
• Provide an annual holistic opinion on the effectiveness and adequacy of risk management, control, and governance processes.
• Reports at least annually to the audit committee on the internal audit function's conformance with professional internal auditing standards

People Management 

• Employee Performance Management
• Capacity Planning
• Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    
• Post Graduate Degree (BCOM / Accounting).
• Accounting Article.

Internal Audit working experience including:

•  Minimum 3 years Managerial experience
•  Minimum 5 years Financial services experience

Critical Competencies    

•  Internal Audit Background
•  Strategical
•  Quality Assuarance
•  Reporting
•  People Management

Additional Requirements    

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required.

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Reporting to the Company Secretary, the focus of this role is to assist the Company secretary with the provision of corporate governance services and company secretarial support to the following:

• Land Bank Board
• Land Bank Board Committees
• Land Bank EXCO
• Land Bank Insurance Board
• Land Bank Insurance Board Committees
• Land Bank Insurance EXCO
• Individual directors and executives
• Land Bank and Land Bank Insurance ad hoc structures

Key Performance Areas    
Provision of corporate governance services to the Boards and Committees of the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies

• Assist with the preparation of board skills matrices.
• Assist with the induction and orientation of directors.
• Assist with the provision of legal and corporate governance counsel to the Board, Board Committees, individual directors and individual executives.
• Ensuring that governance instruments are regularly updated.
• Ensuring that board members and executives are regularly updated of developments in legislation, regulation and corporate governance practice applicable to the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies.
• Assisting with the management of legal and administrative proceedings on behalf of the board of directors and board committees.
• Developing and supervising the implementation an annual non-executive director training and development programme.
• Managing all individual and collective board and board committee evaluations.

Provision of company secretarial services to the Boards and Committees of the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies

• Taking, writing-up and maintaining minutes of Board, Board Committee and EXCO.
• Keeping a register of Board, Board Committee and EXCO resolutions as prescribed and assisting in ensuring that the resolutions, instructions and wishes of the board and board committees are executed.
• Attending to all director, prescribed officer and invitee disclosure requirements.
• Ensuring that the annual JSE compliance letter is filed if required.
• Drafting and distributing SENS announcements as required.
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders as delegated by the company secretary.
• Submission of statutory returns to the CIPC
• Preparing an annual business plan and budget for the areas own area of responsibility.

Preservation of institutional memory and records management

• Ensuring that institutional memory is preserved and that knowledge which has been accumulated is accessible and shared.
• Ensuring that all information and records which are a responsibility of the Office of the Company Secretary are managed in terms of all applicable legislation, regulation, frameworks, policies, systems, plans, best practice and the Company Secretary Records Management Standard Operating Procedures.
• Maintain minute books and other statutory documents in accordance with legislative requirements and best practice
• Influence the design and implementation of the necessary information architecture to manage information in the Secretariat Unit, the Land Bank Intranet and Website

Build and maintain stakeholder relations

• Build and maintain effective relations with board members particularly the chairpersons of the Boards of directors and the chairpersons of Board committees
• Build and maintain relationships with members of Executive Management particularly CEO and MD
• Build and maintain relationships with other members of staff of the Land Band and its Subsidiary Companies.
• Compile and maintain a database indicating the role players, expected outputs, contact details

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• Minimum: LLB, B.Admin (Law), B.Comm (Law), BA (Law) or equivalent qualification.
• At least 6 years’ experience in company secretarial environment with at least 4 years’ experience as a Company Secretary or Assistant Company Secretary in the public sector environment.

Critical Competencies    

• Company Secretarial Best Practice
• Corporate Governance Best Practice
• Good Written and Oral Communication
• Project Management Best Practice
• Financial Management
• Company Secretarial and Board Systems

Additional Requirements    

• Extended hours as and when required.