Africa Audit Quality Senior Manager

KPMG South Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audit and consultancy firm is seeking an experienced Africa Audit Quality Senior Manager or Associate Director in Johannesburg, South Africa. This role involves driving audit quality initiatives across Africa, managing the engagement management lifecycle, and overseeing the audit file assembly team and IRBA reporting process. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and communication skills, be knowledgeable in audits, and have CA (SA) qualification. This position is crucial for improving audit quality standards across the continent.

Qualifications

• Senior manager or associate director role with audit experience required.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects is essential.
• Must have strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive audit quality initiatives across Africa.
• Manage the engagement management lifecycle and milestone monitoring process.
• Oversee the audit file assembly team and IRBA reporting process.

Skills

Collaborative and ability to work with multiple stakeholders

Good organisational and project management skills

Strong leader

Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills

Inquisitive to learn and use technology

Enthusiastic and takes initiative

Knowledgeable on audits and execution of audits

Team player

Able to see the bigger picture

Education

CA (SA)

Job description

Job Title/position

Africa Audit Quality Senior Manager or Associate Director

Number Of Positions

One

Function And Business Unit

Africa audit

Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

The Africa audit quality team requires an experienced senior manager or associate director to work directly with the African audit quality leader to drive audit quality initiatives across Africa. The role entails working with all leaders responsible for audit quality initiatives to ensure the strategic audit quality objectives are achieved. In addition to the African role, the colleague will be responsible for managing the Southern Africa file assembly process, the South Africa IRBA reporting process and completion of ISQM 1 controls.

Key Responsibilities

Audit quality monitoring

• Work with Head of Audit and Audit Quality leader to develop the Africa audit quality plan and monitor and report progress against actions
• Prepare monthly/quarterly audit quality operations committee or board quality committee submissions
• Prepare all audit quality ISQM 1 controls for review by the Audit Quality leader
• Preparation of the annual transparency report
• Co-ordinating and liaising with all leaders responsible for quality initiatives as well as working with Africa audit leaders, EMA and global teams on audit quality reporting

Milestone monitoring and engagement management lifecycle

• Manage the engagement management lifecycle and milestone monitoring process through liaising with engagement leaders on progress of meeting milestones
• Preparing the monthly reporting in respect of achievement of milestones and actions taken
• Liaise with the technology team to produce meaningful reports to aide in the process

Southern Africa file assembly process

• Manage the audit file assembly team daily (currently 2 x KDA team members)
• Assist with leadership level follow up on outstanding file closeouts
• Review the register of the 3-way match of DocuSign to KPMG Clara workflow to retention files twice weekly (SoQM Control ZA-10).
• Co-ordinate with the audit technology team on improvements to the tools used and data available
• Support engagement teams with DocuSign and audit file assembly questions on an ad-hoc basis.

South Africa IRBA reporting

• Manage the team responsible for the maintenance of the data required for IRBA reporting (annual formal declaration process, audit quality indicator (AQI) annual reporting and ad-hoc reporting requirements)
• Prepare the annual IRBA declaration and the annual AQI submissions

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Collaborative and ability to work with multiple stakeholders
• Good organisational and project management skills
• Strong leader
• Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Inquisitive to learn and use technology and turn data into knowledge
• Enthusiastic and individual that takes initiative with self-drive
• Knowledgeable on audits and execution of audits and can work well with audit teams, specialists and DPP
• Team player
• Able to see the bigger picture

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience)

• CA (SA)
• Senior manager or associate director that has audit experience