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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Audit Responsibilities
Planning
- Plan and scope the audit project effectively. Allocate resources, define deadlines and ensure comprehensive and appropriate terms of reference is set for each review
- Identify in partnership with the Senior Manager(SM) a relevant audit team , including appointment of specialist or contract staff, and engage them on the audit plans and budget
- Ensure that appropriate audit components/sections are allocated to the audit team members in line with their skill level and areas for development
- Identify the need to appoint external specialists (CWC) as and when required, and manage the selection and appointment process
- Facilitate engagement meetings (entrance engagement) with auditee management to discuss the scope, focus areas, objectives, methodology, required audit documents and due dates
- Formulate technical audit procedures on selected projects
- Assist the audit team in identifying audit risks in infrastructure projects.
Execution
- Provide guidance and advise to audit teams on technical and feasibility studies, including site investigations
- Interpret project technical information e.g. detailed designs as well as complex calculations
- Advise audit teams on tendering procedures
- Advise audit teams on compliance of government infrastructure projects with legal requirements
- Assessing the sustainability of projects
- Provide detailed review of working papers and reports
- Execute technical audit procedures on selected projects
- 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
- Advise audit teams on procurement strategy used on infrastructure projects
- Identifying, analysing and developing responses to commercial risks on infrastructure projects (applicable to QS)
- Analysing the costings for tenders awarded by government departments on selected infrastructure projects
- Analysing outcomes and writing detailed and impactful audit reports on audited infrastructure projects
- Constantly engage with manager to provide updates on audit progress and required support to complete the audit on time
- Ensure quality standards are met throughout the audit
Reporting
- Analysing outcomes and writing detailed and impactful audit reports
- Ensuring that all findings emanating from the audited infrastructure projects are communicated to the auditees
- Conduct and report on site visits
- Advise on value of completed work on selected infrastructure projects
- Accurately capture and update ASMIS information
Research
- Actively conduct research in the area of expertise
- Regular report back on the progress of research conducted.
- Review working papers and memos on research undertaken in the infrastructure field
- Review relevant memos on research of complex and challenging audit themes, arising from government and international priorities/programmes in the infrastructure field
Administrative Matters
- Responsible for effective management of all administrative matters relating to the role. (e.g. timeous approvals, compliance with internal controls, etc.)
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.
- Provide training to staff to improve their understanding of technical matters
Product Development and Marketing
- Assist with the development of industry specific products and services
- Assist with the marketing of the BU and its products to potential clients
Stakeholder Engagements
- Build and maintain strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders within the AGSA (both RA and PA) and with auditees to ensure support during the audit process for both integration and stand-alone audits.
- Interactions with the Executive Authorities on key findings/outcomes
- Effectively engage with key stakeholders on all levels
People Management
- Manage performance of staff, provide mentorship and support, and on-the-job training
- Responsible for the development of staff according to their development plans (PDPs)
- Manage teams’ performance and implement a culture of high performance
- Address staff related enquiries
- Support the implementation of the people plan for the centre/BU
- Ensure team members compliance with all AGSA policies
Financial Management
- Assist in identifying revenue growth opportunities within the component and optimise its operational expenditure
- Assist with the formulation of a budget
- Manage own and team recoverability
- Follow up debtor queries
- Ensure compliance with the internal controls in AGSA
- Ensure compliance with Supply Chain Management in AGSA
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
- Post graduate qualification in Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or any approved built environment specialization.
Professional Registration
- Registration with a Professional Body as required in the built environment is mandatory e.g. ECSA, SACQSP, SACPCMP.
Experience
- At least 6 years’ industry specific experience in the infrastructure/ built environment (few years’ experience at a management level will be advantageous).
- 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.
- Experience in compilation of tender documentation
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Product Management
Integration with RABU’s (audit support in terms of ISA240, SCM and Data Analytics)
- Support high profile, complex & challenging audits.
- Plan and execute ISA 240 fraud risk assessments, SCM and Data Analytics in terms of the prescribed procedures.
- Conduct information gathering interviews with auditees.
- Source and interrogate high volumes of data/ information within a short-period of time.
- Identify fraud risk factors, compile fraud risk register and draft procedures to mitigate identified fraud risks.
- Contribute to fraud awareness training initiatives of the IBU.
- Pro-actively identify additional key risks relating to maladministration/ irregularities at auditees.
- Contribute towards the development & maintaining of a risk database per sector.
- Contribute towards the streamlining of audit processes by using data analysis, exception reports and other innovative methods.
- Take part in the on-going development of specialist skills in IBU and transfer of specialized skills to RA.
- Identify transversal risks at audits and communicate such risks to ensure consistency of approach.
- Sharing insights, risks, knowledge of the client and partnering, thereby significantly influencing approach that minimizes audit risks.
- Assist the manager in coordinating and facilitating information sharing sessions and other verbal presentations with RABUs.
- Review high value contracts for the RABU’s in compliance with the PFMA and MFMA reporting cycles.
- Prepare detailed and factually correct working papers and management reports supported by audit evidence.
- Execute audit procedures using investigative insights/ methodologies.
- Contribute to the on-going research in the IBU.
- In exceptional cases, assist managers to conduct and manage investigations upon receipt of a request, or upon audit identifying a risk area that warrants an investigation.
- Completion of quality and cost-effective engagements.
Stakeholder Management
- Engage with various audit teams during the audit support process.
- Attend and participate in strategic audit planning sessions or meetings and sector meetings upon request by the manager and senior manager.
- Attend and participate in presentations and knowledge sharing sessions.
- Continuously update or inform the Senior Manager and/or Manager on issues arising from the ISA 240 fraud risk assessments, review of high value complex audits conducted and Data Analytics.
- Maintain interactions with the RABU teams during PFMA and MFMA audit cycles.
People Management
- Manage own performance.
- Participate and/or take lead in the IBU’s transformation, culture, diversity and employment equity initiatives.
- Attend to IBU and PDP training sessions as arranged.
Financial management and operational management
- Assist managers in compiling and monitoring the cost or budget fees for assignments.
- Manage optimal recoverability.
- Ensure efficiency and that costs saving measures are adhered to.
- Ensure compliance to the AGSA policies and procedures.
- Adhere to internal control processes.
Other responsibilities (Applicable to All JD’s)
Formal Education
- This position requires a minimum qualification of CA (SA) or RGA
- ICFP is an added advantage
- An ACFE / post grad diploma in forensic accounting is an added advantage
Experience
- In addition, the incumbent requires minimum 3 years work experience in an audit environment.
- Added advantage:- Public sector exposure/ Investigation and fraud risk management experience
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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
- Participate/provide inputs into the BU strategy and VA/OA
- Support the Senior manager in the implementation of BU strategy
- Manage teams by ensuring that they are aligned with the vision, mission and organisational strategic objectives of the AGSA.
Managing audits
- Research and development of new audit themes
- Allocation of resources within the audit.
- Submission of audit plans for approval
- Provide guidance to audit team during the audit
- Execute audit procedures, including diagnostic/ investigative procedures
- Provide critical analysis of the evidence, identify management measures/processes that are root causes and make appropriate recommendation
- Source and interrogate data/information
- On request, assist the RA team, by sharing insights, risks, knowledge of the auditee
- Produce high quality impact report within the specified timeframe.
- Provide inputs into best practices/guidelines on request
- Detail and timely review of audit working papers and TeamMate files
- Exercise project management principles throughout the audit to ensure timely and high quality product/s
- Work with RA to identify and follow up Material Irregularity (MI’s) and calculate financial loss
Administrative matters
- Attend to requests of the Senior Manager relating to strategic and operational issues
- Attend to administration matters
- Ensure compliance with internal controls
- Approval of timesheets, overtime and leave
- Report progress on audits and BSC implementation and any other projects that they are responsible for.
People matters
- Addressing any people matters that may arise from the team in partnership with relevant People Support BUs
- Responsible for the development of staff through training, on the job training and coaching
- Support the implementation of the People plan initiatives within the team and centre/BU.
- Maintain and enhance employee motivation and engagement.
- Manage audit teams’ performance and implement a culture of performance management.
- Provide mentorship and coaching as required.
- Implement relevant Employment relations processes when employees do no not comply with AGSA policies and values
Stakeholder engagements
- Build strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders both internally and externally that promotes the value of performance audits and integration initiatives
- Liaise with management of the auditee on a regular basis
- Liaise with private audit firms relating to contract out audits
Financial management
- Assist in identifying revenue growth opportunities within the component and optimise its operational expenditure.
- Assist with the formulation of audit budgets.
- Monitor and attain own and team recoverability targets
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
Formal Education
- CA (SA) or ACCA or RGA or CIA qualification
Professional Registration
- Registration with relevant professional body is mandatory.2
Knowledge
- Knowledge about PFMA and MFMA
- Accounting and Auditing legislation and standards or principles
- Knowledge of ISSAI 300 and 3000 is required
Experience
- Completed articles (3 years)
- Minimum 5 years’ experience with at least 2 years’ experience operating at an assistant/junior management level.
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Strategic Function:
- Contributes to the formulation and drive the implementation of the organisation’s long term strategy.
- Develop BU Balance Score Card (BSC) and oversee the implementation and reporting thereof.
Product Management:
- Oversee the audit operations in line with the relevant audit methodology and standards;
- Provide strategic direction for audit operations.
- Ensure that assignments and/or engagements are adequately planned, resourced and performed in accordance with the audit methodology and standards.
- Provide leadership support to sensitive, complex, and high risk engagements.
- Provide overall strategic leadership in ensuring the best overall quality of all audit outputs.
- Oversee the timely sign-off of all audit engagements.
- Ensure quality delivery of critical AGSA report (e.g. Sector, General and Audit reports).
- Ensure approval and effective management of Contract Work Creditors (CWC) and pre-issuance allocations.
- Coordinate auditing activities and plans with other internal Specialised Audit Service (SAS) activities to ensure objectives are met.
- Signing of audit reports for significant and complex audits as per delegations.
- Lead and monitor the implementation of the audit strategy.
Stakeholder Management:
- Drive the strategic initiative of visibility through effective external engagements
- Accountable for the implementation of the stakeholder engagement plan in line with the AGSA stakeholder engagement framework
- Engage with the stakeholder as per the engagement plan which includes consideration for political sensitivity, complexity and seniority.
- Media engagement as per the AG delegations
- Interact with relevant oversight structures and relevant committees regarding briefings on audit reports / outcomes.
- Interact with and establish partnerships with private audit firms, professional bodies and higher learning institutions
- Promote the AGSA brand and reputation.
People Management:
- Provide strategic direction and leadership to the BU in respect of:
- Vision achievement/ organisation alignment.
- People Strategy commitments including talent management and succession planning.
- Implementation of AGSA transformation strategies.
- Impact-driven strategic conversations with internal staff on an on-going basis.
- The improvement of culture and staff engagement within the BU
- Accountable for maintaining training office accreditation in compliance with the regulatory bodies.
Financial management and operational management:
- Accountable for sustainability and profitability of the BU.
- Ensures that BU deliverables are executed economically, efficiently and effectively in terms of recoverability and productivity.
- Ensures effective financial management of CWC.
- Development and effective management of the BU budget and performance targets.
- Provide input on the opportunities to improve efficiencies of the organisation’s business operations and other innovation.
Other responsibilities:
- Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required.
Qualifications:
- This position requires a minimum qualification of a registered CA(SA) or RGA or ACCA.
Experience:
- A minimum of 10+ year’s relevant post qualification experience with at least 6 years of experience operating at a senior management/executive level will be a requirement.
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Product
Conduct ERP reviews covering the three audit phases:
- Planning
- Execution
- Reporting
Plan the audit:
- Define the objectives of the audit
- Define the scope of the audit
- Identify benchmarks to be utilised
- Assess the risks from source documentation
- Compile the audit plan
- Conduct a walk through process with the relevant role players
Execute tests, inclusive of:
- Compliance to policies, procedures, standards and specifications
- Adequacy on goals
- Reliability of information
- Efficiency and effectiveness of operations
- Safeguarding of assets
Generate audit reports indicating:
- Audit findings
- Recommendations
Conduct a closure meeting, where appropriate, to discuss:
- Accepted recommendations to be implemented and timelines applicable
- Rejected recommendations and internal actions to be implemented
- Target dates for implementation and review
- Supervise subordinates in the execution of the three audit phases
- Supervise team meetings regarding the direction and progress on the audits
- Provide guidance to auditors on audit related matters
- Conduct the field work in accordance with policies and procedures
- Communicate to Line Manager on progress or obstacles during the audit
- Provide support in the review of contract work and quality assurance
- Provide input to regularity audit strategic plans
- Provide guidance on AGSA audit approach
- Promote and manage sound internal controls within the Business Unit
- Keep abreast of the latest development at the AGSA
- Manage audits within the allocated time frame
- Manage audits in adherence to internal processes, policies and procedures
Formal Education
- B Degree in Auditing, Computer Science or Informatics
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
The following will be an added advantage:
- ERP Certificate (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or JD Edwards)
Knowledge
- Knowledge of Auditing
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of finance and the components involved in finance; must be able to apply PFMA and MFMA principles and adhere to due dates
- In-depth knowledge and skills in Informatics
- Knowledge of Project Assurance
- Knowledge of ERP systems
Experience
- Solid experience in auditing SAP environment
- Experience on other ERP environments, such as Oracle, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft would be beneficial
- Minimum 5 years IS auditing
- Minimum 2-3 years managerial experience
- The performance agreement of the incumbent, which attributes specific targets to the above mentioned outputs would be developed and agreed SEPARATELY based on this Job Description.
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Product
- Participate in audit committee/steering committee meetings with Business Unit (BU) management as and when required
Conduct audit covering the three audit phases:
- Planning
- Execution
- Reporting
Plan the audit:
- Define the objectives of the audit
- Define the scope of the audit
- Identify benchmarks to be utilised
- Assess the risks from source documentation
- Compile the audit plan
- Conduct a walk through process with the relevant role players
Execute tests, inclusive of:
- Compliance to policies, procedures, standards and specifications
- Adequacy on goals
- Reliability of information
- Efficiency and effectiveness of operations
- Safeguarding of assets
Generate audit reports indicating:
- Audit findings
- Recommendations
Conduct a meeting, where appropriate, to discuss:
- Accepted recommendations to be implemented and timelines applicable
- Rejected recommendations and internal actions to be implemented
- Target dates for implementation and review
- Supervise subordinates in the execution of the three audit phases
- Supervise team meetings regarding the direction and progress on the audits
- Provide guidance to auditors on audit related matters
- Conduct the field work in accordance with policies and procedures
- Communicate to Manager and Senior Manager on progress or obstacles during the audit
- Submit the audit report for publishing and archiving
- Finalise the audit file and submit for archiving in accordance with policies and procedures
- Provide support in the review of contract work and quality assurance
- Provide inputs to Information Systems Audit strategic plans
- Provide guidance on AGSA audit approach
- Promote and manage sound internal controls within the Business Unit
- Keep abreast of the latest development at the AGSA
- Manage audits within the allocated time frame
- Manage audits in adherence to internal processes, policies and procedures
Formal Education
- B Degree in Auditing or Computer Science or Informatics
The following will be an added advantage:
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- ERP Certificate (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards)
Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of finance and the components involved in finance; must be able to apply PFMA and MFMA principles and adhere to due dates
- Knowledge of Auditing
- In-depth knowledge and skills in ERP environments
- Should have knowledge of Oracle SysAdmin and Oracle business process reviews
Experience
- Minimum 4 years IS auditing experience
- Minimum of 1 year supervisory experience
- Experience on one or more ERP environments, such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft
- Experience in Cyber Security environment would be beneficial
- Experience in CAATs/Data Analytics environment would be beneficiaries
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Product
Conduct reviews covering the three audit phases:
- Planning
- Execution
- Reporting
Plan the audit:
- Define the objectives of the audit
- Define the scope of the audit
- Identify benchmarks to be utilised
- Assess the risks from source documentation
- Compile the audit plan
- Conduct a walk through process with the relevant role players
Execute tests, inclusive of:
- Compliance to policies, procedures, standards and specifications
- Adequacy on goals
- Reliability of information
- Efficiency and effectiveness of operations
- Safeguarding of assets
Generate audit reports indicating:
- Audit findings
- Recommendations
Conduct a closure meeting, where appropriate, to discuss:
- Accepted recommendations to be implemented and timelines applicable
- Rejected recommendations and internal actions to be implemented
- Target dates for implementation and review
- Supervise subordinates in the execution of the three audit phases
- Supervise team meetings regarding the direction and progress on the audits
- Provide guidance to auditors on audit related matters
- Conduct the field work in accordance with policies and procedures
- Communicate to Line Manager on progress or obstacles during the audit
- Provide support in the review of contract work and quality assurance
- Provide input to regularity audit strategic plans
- Provide guidance on AGSA audit approach
- Promote and manage sound internal controls within the Business Unit
- Keep abreast of the latest development at the AGSA
- Manage audits within the allocated time frame
- Manage audits in adherence to internal processes, policies and procedures
Formal Education
- B Degree in Auditing, Computer Science or Informatics
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
The following will be an added advantage:
- ERP Certificate (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or JD Edwards)
Knowledge
- Knowledge of Auditing
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of finance and the components involved in finance; must be able to apply PFMA and MFMA principles and adhere to due dates
- In-depth knowledge and skills in Informatics
- Knowledge of Project Assurance
- Knowledge of ERP systems
Experience
- Experience in auditing ERP based systems,including but not limited to Oracle ERP, SAP, Netsuite, Oracle fusion, JD Edwards
- Should have experience in auditing IT general controls
- Minimum 5 years IS auditing
- Minimum 2-3 years managerial experience
- The performance agreement of the incumbent, which attributes specific targets to the above mentioned outputs would be developed and agreed SEPARATELY based on this Job Description.
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