Assurance Manager (Consulting)

Accenture; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global exposure

High-profile engagements

Risk & Compliance practice

Career in Strategy & Consulting

Job summary

Accenture in South Africa seeks a Risk and Compliance Manager to lead engagements covering internal audit, quality assurance and risk management within the financial services sector.

You will guide multi‑party transformation programmes, assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls, and report outcomes to senior stakeholders while growing the Africa Risk & Compliance practice.

You will manage a team, engage with external partners, and represent Accenture at client senior levels.

Qualifications

• Six to ten years+ experience with a top-tier audit, consulting firm or major financial services firm.
• Experience in programme assurance, auditing and risk management.
• Experience in financial services, especially banking and insurance.
• Aspirational to extend skillset and build a career in strategy and consulting.
• Certifications in internal audit (CIA), accounting, or related fields preferable.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements covering internal audit, quality assurance and risk management.
• Lead programme assurance over multi-party transformation programmes.
• Assess design and operating effectiveness of programme controls.
• Design tests and monitoring mechanisms to assess control effectiveness.
• Provide independent and objective assessments of processes, systems, controls and performance.
• Report to senior stakeholders on risk management outcomes and areas for improvement.
• Be an assurance subject matter advisor, manage a team, and represent Accenture at senior client levels.

Skills

External Audit

Programme Assurance

Risk Assessment

Strategy & Consulting

Technology Transformation

Programme Management

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

About Accenture

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale.

Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. #LI-EU

Our global Strategy & Consulting practice brings together industry professionals and domain expertise from around the world to shape the future by creating clearly defined, measurable value, and assuring value is realized in large-scale reinvention programmes.

We are seeking a Manager to join the Risk and Compliance Consulting team in South Africa where you will have the opportunity to work on technology assurance and controls engagements in the financial services industry.

Skills

A successful candidate will be proficient in the following skills:

• External Audit
• Programme Assurance
• Risk Assessment
• Strategy & Consulting
• Technology Transformation
• Programme Management
• Team Leadership

Responsibilities:

• As a Risk and Compliance Manager, you will be responsible for leading engagements covering internal audit, quality assurance and risk management.
• Your day-to-day activities will include:
  • Lead programme assurance over multi-party transformation programmes
  • Assess design and operating effectiveness of programme controls
  • Design tests and monitoring mechanisms to assess control effectiveness
  • Provide independent and objective assessments of processes, systems, controls and performance
  • Report to senior stakeholders on risk management outcomes and areas for improvement
• You are expected to be an assurance subject matter advisor, to problem solve independently, to manage a team to perform effectively, and to represent Accenture at senior levels in client organizations.
• You will be responsible for team decisions, engaging with external partners, and contributing to key client decisions. You are additionally expected to contribute to the continued growth of the Risk & Compliance practice in Africa.

Who and what we are looking for?

• Six to ten years+ experience with a top-tier audit, consulting firm or major financial services firm.
• Experience in programme assurance, auditing and risk management
• Experience in financial services, especially banking and insurance
• Aspiration to extend skillset and build a career in strategy and consulting
• Bachelors’ degree (accounting, finance, business discipline) minimum and MBA preferred
• Certifications in internal audit (CIA), accounting, or related fields preferable
• Solid foundational consulting skills (issue-based problem solving, structured communication, value analysis, relationship management, storytelling)
• Curious nature, positive attitude and strong team player

Our offer

• Work as part of one of the top professional services capabilities in the market
• Challenging job on high-profile client engagements with international support
• Play a role in building the Risk & Compliance practice for Accenture
• Opportunity to extend career beyond just Assurance, Audit or Risk Management into financial services Strategy and Consutling