Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact REQ 136148 - Tshego Semenya
Location: Sandton
Closing date: 20 January 2025
Cluster RBB
Career Stream Auditing
Leadership Pipeline Manage Managers
Position Senior Manager Assurance: RBB
Job Purpose To conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance with 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.
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 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 555566.
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