The Internal Audit Manager will monitor risk, manage audits, ensure quality standards, engage with stakeholders, and provide guidance to auditors.
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.
Job Summary
To monitor the risk profile of the business and execute audit assignments in accordance with the Group Audit Plan and Internal Audit methodology, relevant policies, procedures and quality standards.Job Description
Audit planning
- Participate in the 6+6 audit planning cycle, provide input by taking into account the risk and control profile, business strategy and material risks affecting the business.
Assurance
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of Absa and the various business areas and use this knowledge to execute on assurance responsibilities.
- Actively participate in all the audit phases - planning and scoping (identification of risks and controls), fieldwork (execution of design and operating effectiveness assessments) and reporting (ensure audit observations and planned actions are agreed with management for factual accuracy).
- Ensure delivery adheres to the audit methodology and quality standards.
- Identify opportunities for using Data Analytics and enhanced automated auditing techniques.
- Prepare audit observations and make sure that they are concise, factually accurate and cover all of the significant issues. The observations must be insightful, address the root causes, and have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk.
Teamwork
- Engage proactively with Internal Audit colleagues during assignments and request technical assistance where required and based on knowledge of business areas, provide guidance to other auditors and peers by sharing best practice so that their work meets and sometimes exceeds quality standards
Relationship and Portfolio management
- Business Monitoring and stakeholder engagement - Develop and maintain relationships with business (including 1and 2 Line of Defense) and actively monitor the risk profile of the business to inform audit planning, reporting and audit delivery. Support the Combined Assurance effort across the 3 LOD to strengthen the control environment.
- Provide input into Risk and Committee reporting, clear messaging and impact on the risk and control environment of the business.
Knowledge Management
- Display professional skepticism and apply a residual risk lens to potential audit issues with management and in final reporting.
- Continuous upskilling on both technical and other core competencies.
- Keeping up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes and professional standards.
- Based on knowledge of business areas, provide guidance to other auditors and peers by sharing best practice so that their work meets and sometimes exceeds quality standards
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Accounting (Required)Top Skills
Data Analytics
Similar Jobs
Cloud • Information Technology • Internet of Things • Machine Learning • Software • Cybersecurity • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Lead enterprise architecture and solution delivery for BOS, managing teams and driving complex OSS/BSS transformations. Focus on presales and enhancing offerings.
Top Skills:
AgileAIAnalyticsApi EcosystemCloud-NativeCompliance ArchitectureContinuous DeliveryData ManagementDevOpsEtomGiap CertificationIntegrationOdaOpenaiPlatform ArchitecturePrincipal Solution ArchitectPrivacy ArchitectureSecurity ArchitectureSidTamTmforumTogaf
Cloud • Information Technology • Internet of Things • Machine Learning • Software • Cybersecurity • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Lead the BOS Integrated Services Hub, focusing on pre-sales, service delivery, and team management in a high-pressure telecom environment.
Top Skills:
Ai/MlApi ManagementBssCloud-NativeCobitData AnalyticsItilMicroservice ArchitectureOssSafe
Fintech • Financial Services
Design and iterate multi-turn, human-centred conversational experiences for an LLM-powered chatbot. Define context, tone, and flows, run experiments, influence model outputs via prompts and guardrails, and collaborate with Product, Content, Compliance, and Engineering to improve accuracy and UX.
Top Skills:
AlmChatbotsCopilot StudioDataverseDevOpsGenerative AiLlmLow-CodeMicrosoft Power PlatformPower AppsPower AutomatePrompt DesignVirtual Assistants
What you need to know about the Sydney Tech Scene
From opera to comedy shows, the Sydney Opera House hosts more than 1,600 performances a year, yet its entertainment sector isn't the only one taking center stage. The city's tech sector has earned a reputation as one of the fastest-growing in the region. More specifically, its IT sector stands out as the country's third-largest, growing at twice the rate of overall employment in the past decade as businesses continue to digitize their operations to stay competitive.
