Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide strategic inputs into the Organisation products and annual scoping decisions for Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA).
• Provide technical inputs to the technical audit department on all areas of public sector auditing and reporting as and when required.
• Participate in the technical development projects and contribute to technical discussions during various forums such as the Product champion and State-Owned Entities (SOE) forums.
• Obtain and coordinate inputs from ABUs on technical documents to inform inputs to the relevant internal BUs and at technical forums.
• Provide sound technical advice and support to the ABU regarding technical queries raised by different centres within the business unit.
• Prepare, review and oversee all technical queries/matters to be escalated to the relevant internal BUs as per the Organisation approved consultation processes and procedures.
• Lead regular technical discussions and communication within the ABU to ensure a proper understanding of the public audit manual and related technical guidance issued.
• Liaise with provincial treasuries on technical matters and provide information to the relevant internal BUs, where necessary.
• Provide technical support to the Sections 4(3) audits, monitor and improve the quality of audits being conducted on behalf of the Organisation.
• Lead initiatives to design and improve BU approaches to quality management on all audits thereby improving the quality of the audits for the BU.
• Implement systems and processes within ABU to ensure quality audit work including conducting consistency reviews on audit reports as determined by the business unit.
• Ensure an effective and efficient pre-issuance review process for purposes of improving the quality of the audits for the BU.
• Monitor the improvement in the quality of audits conducted including those conducted on behalf of the Organisation.
• Co-ordinate BU submissions for compliance reviews including handling own compliance reviews where applicable.
• Collaborate and support audit support BUs and specialized audit BUs in achieving quality and relevant audit products and audit outcomes.
• Provide comments and inputs on the reporting guide, with emphasis on General Report (GR) blueprint, and GR process.
• Ensure basic level of consistency in reporting with a view to easier consolidate information for general report.
• Review and provide inputs to the management information system for reporting purposes to ensure the quality of the information captured and clear any findings raised by QC or ARD.
• Monitor the identification of employee training needs.
• Oversee that interventions are put in place to address training and development gaps in collaboration with relevant internal BUs.
• Participate, where possible, in the delivery training and evaluation of training material.

Requirements

• This position requires a minimum qualification of CA (SA).
• Minimum of 6 years' experience post qualification with at least 4 years' experience operating at a manager/middle management level.
• Added advantage: Previous experience in an audit technical role or Audit SM role.

Skills Required