Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ 136148- Tshego Semenya

Location: Sandton

Closing date: 20 January 2025

Cluster

RBB

Career Stream AuditingLeadership Pipeline Manage ManagersPosition

Senior Manager Assurance: RBB

Job Purpose

To conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance to Nedbank Group standards.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic insights & Client Centricity:

Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, emerging risks and industry trends (including competitors and digital trends). Understand current business strategy, reality, impact of transformation, digital initiatives, risks and expectations and consider key and/or emerging risks to update the annual risk-based annual audit plan, in order to support relevant Assurance reporting. Be commercially minded with a Nedbank client centric approach and understand the broader business strategy in the assurance approach.

 

Transformational Assurance:

Lead and execute assurance assignment planning, fieldwork and reporting in line with the assurance methodology. Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking. Identify and assess the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of manual and automated controls within the scope  of work and utilising data analytics. Identify and ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines in line with assurance scope. Influence stakeholders to address inefficiencies in resolving findings through utilising professional experience in demonstrating benefits of best practice. Ensure continuous improvement of the quality of assurance through providing professional insights. Ensure improved productivity and efficiency and the delivery of projects and assurance assignment within agreed timelines. Achieve operational excellence and support the implementation of business optimisation improvement in assurance. Apply professional judgement in all assurance interactions. Deal with complex verbal and documented information and data in the assurance process.

 

Digital Platform & Data Driven Assurance reviews: Apply knowledge of banking sector, digital transformation, and emerging risks to assess and engage with stakeholders on large-scale and complex changing environments, data, IT infrastructure and technology and determine best approach and testing strategy to provide insightful reporting. Job Responsibilities Continue

Integrated Risk and Control Environment

Engage with the risk and compliance and audit community to ensure coordinated assurance approach and assessment of risk and control to ensure scope is appropriately defined.

 

Impactful Reporting:

Prepare quality, relevant and commercially astute assignment and reports that provide intelligence and meaningful insights that enable the management of risk to be a strategic and competitive differentiator for Nedbank. The ability of story-telling and writing reports in a succinct and concise manner which is visually appealing and at an appropriate level for various stakeholders and governance forums.

 

Business Partner Relationships:

Build and maintain an open and constructive relationship during and outside of scheduled as a Trusted Advisor with senior internal and external stakeholders including Internal and External Audit and Business Executives and the risk and compliance community. Build trusting relationships and improve credibility and quality of assurance outputs by achieving team objectives through engaging with staff, peers and other departments for reporting purposes.

 

Effective Leadership:

Create an environment of teamwork that contributes to RBB Risk; Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities. Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.). Minimum Experience Level 5+ years in banking/ financial services industry experience (preferably within Auditing or Risk) 5+ years’ experience (minimum 5 years with Internal auditing/risk management experience and a minimum of 2 years with people management experience. Essential Qualifications - NQF Level Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification CA (SA) Preferred Certifications Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and optional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA) Type of Exposure Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas. Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding. Building and maintaining effective relationships with Risk community and other internal and external stakeholders. Auditing Interacting with diverse people Analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data Financial services; preferable banking – retail and commercial exposure (products and or/channels) Communicating standards to others Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends. Technical / Professional Knowledge Accounting standards Change management Financial Accounting Principles Governance, Risk and Controls Principles of project management Relevant regulatory knowledge Risk management process and frameworks Strategic planning Institute of Internal Auditors standards Code of Ethics Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566