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Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

• Support the implementation of the business unit balance score card
• (BU BSC) on the development and execution of fraud data analytic projects.

Product Management

• Conduct data analytic assignments
• Develop data analytics models
• Ensure that the data analytics models are well developed, tested, and implemented
• Ensure that the integrity and dependability of data for analytical purposes are processed, cleansed and verified
• Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources, and build scripts that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across datasets
• Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and develop and maintain protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data
• Work directly with audit business units managers and senior managers to gather their data analytics requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships
• Using existing and new data sources to extract new information and convey that information according to the audience to the data
• Promote and manage sound internal controls within the Business Unit
• Keep abreast of the latest development at the AGSA

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Co-ordinate stakeholder engagements/meetings for the management team and ensure proper record keeping.
• Actively participate in technical discussions as required.
• Provide support with the packaging of information to be used in a knowledge sharing setup on audit insights, research findings and general knowledge.
• 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 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

Skills, Experience & Education

Formal Education

• Minimum qualification of B Com or BSC degree in information systems, Informatics,
• Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Data Engineering,
• Computer Science or Equivalent

Or

• National Diploma or BTech degree in Financial Information Systems

The following will be an added advantage:

• Understanding of ERP system (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft or JD Edwards)
• Proficiency in R, Stata, or Python

Experience

• Minimum 3 – 5 years data analytics or data science experience.
• Experience in data Visualisation using Power BI, Tableau and other data Visualisation tools is essential.
• Experience with data architecture, data modelling, dashboards/ visualization and relational databases involved in application development and big data

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Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

• Support the implementation of the centre Balance Score Card (BSC) initiatives.

Product Management

Desktop Support

• Initial setup of desktop computers with application software of the AGSA.
• Configure desktop computers on the AGSA network for email access and printing capabilities. Create images of different desktop platforms for ease of future installations (Windows, macOS, etc.).
• Maintain images of desktops with all updated AGSA software as and required.
• Provide post-implementation support for desktop computers in response to Service Desk calls:
• Reinstallation of software on desktop computers
• Troubleshoot and resolve faults. Repairs where applicable
• Redirect calls to vendor according to contract SLA agreements

Notebook support

• Initial setup of notebook computers with application software of the AGSA.
• Setup of notebook computers on AGSA network for users to access AG’s network to be able to receive email and do printing.
• Create images of different notebook platforms for ease of future installations.
• Maintain images of notebook computers with all updated AGSA software as required.
• After implementation support of notebook computers according to Service Desk calls
• Reinstallation of software on notebook computers
• Fault finding and fixing
• Repairs where applicable redirect calls to vendor according to contract SLA agreements

Tablet & mobile phone Support

• Creation of AGSA universal image for the tablets.
• Design and management of Apple/Windows tablet enterprise security feature set,
• Support of all AGSA tablets
• Installation of all AGSA approved software
• Manage security protocols for Apple and Windows products.
• Troubleshoot and repair all AGSA tablets. 3rd Party call management until resolution
• Innovative approaches to develop contingency plans.
• Provide telephonic and remote support.
• Backend management of licensing, compliance and adherence to AGSA operational standards of all tablets.
• Design and management of AGSA mobile phones for network access.
• Configure and maintain email, mobile printing, and ERP access on mobile devices.

Printers Support

• Installation of local and network printers for users according to calls logged on Service Desk.
• Setup of printers using printer drivers and operating system software.
• Maintain printer driver database to support all printers deployed in AGSA

Software Support (includes Teammate Support)

• Update of images for notebooks and desktops and distribute to support companies and Teammate support staff in regions.
• Support users with any software related calls logged on Service Desk.
• Develop and maintain scripts for automating deployment, updates, and troubleshooting for end-user devices, ensuring operational efficiency.
• Support and manage virtual desktop infrastructure and cloud-based management tools like Microsoft Intune for provisioning, configuring, and managing end-user devices.

Other ICT support

• Provide ICT support during AGSA events such as conferences, inductions, and PeopleSoft training.
• Provide support with Security and Data Voice when required.
• Participating in disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, ensuring rapid recovery of end-user devices in the event of a failure.
• Stay updated with industry trends and pursue relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft, Apple, CompTIA) to ensure proficiency with the latest end-user technologies.
• Research support software and hardware as determined by ICT support consultant.
• Manage and monitor endpoint security using tools like Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), ensuring compliance with Zero Trust Architecture and AGSA security protocols.
• Perform tasks as part of a project team according to the project schedules
• Provide support for collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive to ensure seamless communication and collaboration.
• Provide information to management relating to ICT section’s hardware and software environment for asset verification purposes.
• Ensure that all required forms are completed and filed which relate to asset transfers and securely filed and stored.

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.
• Ensure a seamless end-user experience by proactively identifying and resolving pain points, optimising device performance, and facilitating feedback loops

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 regard to centre management and other people related tasks.

Financial 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.

Skills, Experience & Education

• This position requires a minimum qualification of a National Diploma (NQF Level 6) in Information Technology

Experience

Minimum 3 years’ experience in any of the IT areas below:

• Desktop Support
• Notebook Support
• Printer Support
• Microsoft Application Software support
• Microsoft Operating Systems support
• Basic network support
• Basic ICT security support

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Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

• Support the development of data analytics related products to advance the data collection,quality,and analysis and ensure alignment with the AGSA CultureShift 2030 Strategy. Provide support in the implementation of the business unit (BU) balance score card (BSC).

Product Management

Development of value-add analytics:

•  Provide support in developing leading and innovative solutions, tools and practices in data quality,analysis and visualisation.
• Support various products including the AGSA General and special Reports by extracting, manipulating, analysing and transforming structured and unstructured audit data using tools such as Excel,Power BI, MySQL,etc. therebyproviding meaningful insights from available data.
•  Constantly monitor the integrity and quality of data and processes to identify deficiencies and facilitate improvement.
•  In-depth analysis of the annual audit outcomes of the three spheres of government and provide support with the drafting of guidance on the general report (GR) content and compilation process.
•  Preparing audit outcomes presentation slides for stakeholder briefings to public sector role-players and provide support to the preparers during the GR or special report (SR) compilation process.
•  Perform verification of the accuracy, completeness and consistency of audit outcomes-related data included in the GRs and/or SRs.
• Design efficient, appropriate data collection methods, tools and templates for use by reporting team and preparers.
•  Timeously identify and resolve data anomalies and inconsistencies.
•  Liaise with subject matter experts and other contributors to the GR to ensure external stakeholders’ information needs are met in presentations and GRs.
•  Provide support with the identification, analysis and reporting of root causes of failures in the control environment of AGSA auditees and the reasons for insufficient delivery on service delivery objectives.
•  Continuously research ways to enhance data collection and analysis of audit derived insights and propose research findings and recommendations.
•  Maintain quality of the assigned sections of the general report in accordance with prescribed quality control standards.
• Manage Audit software project (ASP) deliverables in development, testing and production to ensure that it services the intended purpose.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain collaborative and value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders with the aim to create strong partnerships and environment to enable macro-environmental scanning.
•  Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
•  Build a network of sources in academia, business and government to draw on for research purposes
• Provide specialist support and guidance to internal stakeholders on technical matters in order to ensure alignment with the relevant guidelines.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success in order to continuously improve the delivery of the services.
• Establish and maintain relations with recognised professional bodies within own professional sphere.
• Communicate technical processes and requirements to internal stakeholders and ensure understanding of these by all relevant stakeholders
• Deliver in accordance with the agreed service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

• Manage own performance.
• Participate in the BU’s transformation, culture, and diversity and employment equity initiatives.
• Commit to continuous learning and advancing of own skills so as to remain abreast with industry trends.
• Provide support to the Senior Manager with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks.

Financial management and operational management

• Contribute to the compilation of centre budget, and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• Manage reporting projects and team members to delivery required outputs within the set timeframes.
• 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.

Qualifications

•  CA (SA) / RGA / ACCA

Experience

•  Minimum 3 years post qualification audit experience.
•  2 years’ experience should be as an Audit Senior or Supervisor/Assistant Audit Manager
• Experience as an audit manager will be an advantage
• Experience in the public sector or auditing of the public sector will be an advantage.
• Experience with business information systems and business intelligence tools will be an advantage.

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Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of customised business applications to support the AGSA's business operations.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to DAG, understanding challenges and provide recommendations.
• Manages all strategic initiatives and deliverables of the DAGs office.
• Provides decision-support to the DAG and advises where applicable on strategic matters relating to the DAG organisational strategic commitments.

Strategic Support

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

Reporting:

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

Project management:

• Provides a project management function for all strategic project deliverables in the office of the DAG and monitors progress and performance.
• Functions as first line of review for proposals and requests for approvals presented to the office of the DAG.
• Pro-actively considers and drafts responses to correspondence, preparations of memorandums and submissions, in consultation with the DAG.
• Preparing DAG 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 DAG’s customised stakeholders and strategic plan.

People Management

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Provides support to the DAG in the cascading of the vision achievement/ organisation alignment messages and commitments.

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

• This position requires a minimum qualification of CA (SA) or RGA.

Experience/ Requirements

• Minimum 7 years’ experience of which 5 years should have been post qualification at manager level.

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Roles & Responsibilities

• Assist with the development and implementation of quality management policies and procedures in the operations of the AGSA to ensure compliance with the relevant audit standards
• Update and maintain the QM monitoring policy and related procedures in accordance with relevant changes in International Standards on Auditing and AGSA policie
• Participate in the team planning and scoping of risk-based inspections
• Review ongoing monitoring of the quality management process including post –issuance monitoring  reviews
• Inspecting planned completed audit engagements and firms’ quality management policies and procedures; discussing findings; consulting and preparing high-quality reports in a timely manner
• Perform monitoring of quality management (QM) compliance in accordance with the monitoring requirements of the International Standards on Quality Management (ISQM) and specific requirements as determined by the AGSA
•  The monitoring will be performed annually on two levels, namely:
• System of quality management
• Completed audit engagements (both those performed by AGSA staff and CWC audits)
• Perform any other monitoring activities as determined by the QM senior management team 
• Provide quality related technical advice and guidance to top management and auditors in respect of engagement performance and associated processes
• Work closely with the Strategic Audit Projects Business Unit in enhancing and maintaining the technical quality of the current engagement quality reviewers (EQRs) database to support the quality of allocations of engagement quality reviewers by the audit business units, and Provide ongoing and closer support to engagement quality reviewers on consistency, risks and quality issues that need to be addressed during engagement quality review process

Other Quality Management Initiatives:

• Post monitoring activities such as quality awareness sessions to the different audit business units etc.
• Perform quality reviews on the General Report for PFMA and MFMA cycles and special reports. Review of annual delegations of audit engagements where applicable
• Evaluation of the work performed by Engagement quality reviewers
• Perform reviews or provide inputs on Category 2 complaints against the AGSA where applicable.

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:

• CA (SA)     

Skills & Experience

• ± Five years’ post-qualification experience (with 3 years at a manager role)
• ± Two years inspection reviews experience is advantageous
• Public sector audit experience essential
• Private sector / IFRS audit experience advantageous
• Excellent technical knowledge and experience in auditing and financial reporting standards
• Above average performance and behavioural record
• Detailed knowledge and experience of statutory requirements and standards of the accounting and auditing discipline (e.g. International Standards on Auditing)
• Analytical and communication skills (written and oral)
• Coaching and reporting skills
• Presentation skills
• Discreet handling of confidential and contentious information
• Unquestionable integrity and objectivity
• 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 deadline driven
• 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 Quality management reviews will be an added advantage.
• A valid driver’s license is an inherent requirement of the position as travelling duties may be involved.