An exciting career opportunity exists for an Internal Audit Co-ordinator to perform a new and critical role within the Group Internal Audit team, reporting to the Senior Audit Manager IT & Projects. This role will be based in Cape Town.
Group Internal Audit serves as an essential governance and control function for the Santam Group. The day-to-day functions of any modern-day internal audit shop, including that of Santam GIA, requires operational support to complete its annual assurance plan and to reach its goals.
This role’s purpose will be to assist the audit team with setting up and maintaining its key tools such as the audit management software, related IT infrastructure, audit methodologies, technical change management & upgrades as well as testing and rolling out new related software. The incumbent will also fulfil the role of Audit Quality Assurance Specialist as well serves as the champion for audit issue tracking.
The value this role will bring includes contributing to a higher quality audit function, adhering to the international internal audit standards and ultimately freeing up the GIA core team to focus on their assurance responsibilities as opposed to back-office type of demands.
What will make you successful in this role?
- Champion the current audit issues tracking solution.
- Implement a new audit issue tracking solution.
- Providing TeamMate Support to greater GIA team
- File creation, User Access Administration, TeamMate UAT testing, TeamMate upgrade - when applicable, TeamCentral reports, Timesheet reports)
- Complete Year End Analysis timeously
- Perform periodic checks on the status of TeamMate files for year-end analysis readiness and provide feedback to management team.
- Creating new year end analysis process- year end to have one report to align with CAE expectations.
- Deliver on year-end analysis data. Provide year end analysis data to CAE for Audit Committee reporting.
- Complete Quality Assurance on TeamMate files for GIA Team (QAIP)
- GIA Methodology Alignment to TeamMate (configuration and alignment)
- Updating the TeamMate methodology
- Creating the new TeamMate templates (Assurance and Consulting)
- Updating the new TeamMate library to match current risk taxonomy. (risks and process)
- Update the Santam entities to align with Audit Universe
- Identify and exploit new TeamMate functionality to aid GIA initiatives.
- TeamMate automation (creating efficiencies through software configurations, activating policies and using TeamMate capabilities more effectively)
- Generating reports through TeamMate
- Updating generated report formats and other useful templates (APM, risk and controls table, standard meeting minutes, knowledge document etc.)
- Renewing and refreshing GIA internal processes
- Support the GIA team in providing a reliable and trustworthy TeamMate environment (training setup, liaising with TeamMate service provider, licensing).
- General TeamMate clean-ups and process improvements / efficiencies
- Keeping GIA processes up to date with Santam policies, and IIA standards (that affects TeamMate - alignment with new IIA standards, POPIA and Santam retention, archiving and back up policies)
- Ensuring sound data integrity on TeamMate
- Streamline TeamTEC timesheet logging process.
Qualification and Experience
- Relevant Diploma or Degree in Commerce/ Internal Audit/ Information Systems
- At least 2 – 3 years’ work-related experience
Skills
- Analytical ability and logical reasoning
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills
- Strong client service orientation
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Time management
- TeamMate software experience
Core Competencies
- Being resilient - Contributing independently
- Collaborates - Contributing independently
- Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
- Customer focus - Contributing independently
- Drives results - Contributing independently
About The Company
Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.
At Santam, we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals, we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.
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