Job Description

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities - plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.



To lead and review the audit process to provide independent and objective assurance over liquidity and funding risk, covering Treasury and Capital Management. This includes assessing risk to inform the audit plan, audit scoping, testing and reporting. It requires subject matter expertise in capital management, including specialised knowledge in regulatory capital, liquidity management and interest rate risk in the banking book.

• Build strong relationships with relevant senior internal stakeholders to understand the business and to enable assurance processes and GIA's wider objectives.
• Assess, identify and report on practices in the scope of audit projects which negatively impact client experience and raise recommendations to improve client experience.
• Adhere to legislative and regulatory requirements on internal audit and manage adherence across the team on audit projects.
• Develop and maintain a risk assessment on all areas of risk origination and risk management of the business area responsible for, covering all the risk types to inform audit planning and reporting.
• Contribute to the effective development of audit technology by providing input on technology needs.
• Identify and implement effective use cases of data in automated assurance

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications, certifications or professional memberships

• Degree (Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Commerce) - Min
• Post Graduate Degree (Chartered Accountant, Finance, Economics, Banking, Chartered Financial Analyst) - Pref
• Relevant professional membership will be required based on specialty - Pref

Additional Information

Experience Required

5 - 7 years: Planning and executing audits.Managing and engaging with various stakeholders at a Senior Level. Experience in managing and leading teams with a proven track record of delegating and prioritizing tasks. Must involve experience in auditing capital and liquidity management.

1 - 2 years: Experience analysing complex sets of data to interpret, visualise and identify trends.

1 - 2 years: Experience in technology controls to manage risk.

Behavioral & Technical Competencies:

Articulating Information: This competency is about effectively expressing ideas and concerns, giving presentations, explaining things to others as well as showing confidence in the interaction with other people, both strangers and acquaintances alike.

Meeting Timescales: This competency involves individuals adhering to time scales and meeting deadlines. The focus is therefore on being reliable at completing tasks and being punctual.

Developing Expertise: Developing Expertise is about individuals being open to learning as well as maintaining an efficient rate at which they learn. Furthermore, aims to develop relevant expertise can apply productively in service of their organisation's goals.

Audit Report Writing: The ability to summarise results of audit reviews into findings and recommendations for utilisation by management.

Internal Auditing: The ability to follow a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes in accordance with the IA professional standards to enhance and protect organisational value

Maintain IA Professional Practices: Knowledge of Internal Audit International Professional Practices and apply them to improve the audit methodology, and as a quality standard for audit engagement deliverables to ensure continuous improvement of the audit function.

IA Technology Application: The ability to utilise technology to source and analyse data that supports the internal audit process (risk assessments, full population testing) and drive visual presentation

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