Audit Data Analytics Specialist – Insights & Automation

Clicks Group Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 450,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Clicks Group Limited seeks a Data Analyst to join its Internal Audit team at the Cape Town Head Office. You will deliver data analytics to support risk assessments, control testing, investigations and continuous auditing across business units.

The role requires strong analytical and technical skills to transform complex data into reliable audit evidence and actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders, with emphasis on data lineage and documentation.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate in Statistics preferred; degree in related field considered.
• ACL certification would be advantageous for analytics workflows.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related field is expected or advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with audit teams to identify analytics opportunities and define data requirements.
• Extract, cleanse, transform and analyse data using SQL and approved analytics tools for audit testing.
• Assess data quality and investigate data issues before use in audit testing.
• Design and execute analytics procedures including reconciliations, trend analysis and exhaustive population testing.
• Analyse exceptions, identify trends and root causes, and highlight control weaknesses and risks.
• Prepare dashboards, visualisations and analytical summaries for stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Data interpretation

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Learning mindset

Auditing knowledge

Education

Postgraduate in Statistics

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems

ACL certification advantageous

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

Excel

ACL

SAS

IDEA

SAP

Job description

Clicks Group Limited seeks a Data Analyst to join its Internal Audit team at the Cape Town Head Office. You will deliver data analytics to support risk assessments, control testing, investigations and continuous auditing across business units.

The role requires strong analytical and technical skills to transform complex data into reliable audit evidence and actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders, with emphasis on data lineage and documentation.