Audit Quality And Risk - Monitoring And Evaluation Senior Manager (With Banking Experience)

Deloitte Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audit and assurance firm in South Africa is seeking a qualified professional to support their audit practice. The ideal candidate will have a Honours Accounting Degree, be a qualified CA(SA), and possess 7 years of experience in the financial services industry, including client-facing and management roles. This role involves leading teams, quality control monitoring, and ensuring compliance with auditing standards within the firm's culture of inclusion and high performance.

Qualifications

• 7 years working experience: 5 years in a client facing role; 3 in a management role.
• Audit experience in the financial services industries.

Responsibilities

• Support the audit practice's System of Quality controls.
• Perform independent risk-focused review of engagement files.
• Develop high-performing people and teams.
• Engage in discussions on audit risks.
• Liaise with engagement teams to support quality audits.

Skills

Client facing skills

Audit standards knowledge

Team leadership

Causal factor analysis

Communication skills

Education

Honours Accounting Degree

Registered CA(SA)

Job description

Overview

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society.

This is the lens for which our global strategy is set.

It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills.

It makes us better at what we do and how we do it.

It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of

• people located across more than countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting Services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance.

As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you'll find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

About the Division

Our Audit & Assurance services go beyond merely meeting statutory requirements.

We help our clients perform better and achieve their business objectives.

We listen to their needs, think about the business implications and tailor our approach accordingly.

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Responsibilities

• Support the audit practice's System of Quality controls and the implementation and application of the auditing standards, methodology and applicable regulations through
• Internal inspections / Engagement monitoring: Performing an independent risk focused review of engagement files under the continuous monitoring programme
• Identifies non-compliance with methodology and auditing standards
• Develop high-performing people and teams, leading and supporting them to make an impact that matters, and setting the direction to deliver exceptional client service
• Uses experience, research and the ISA / Deloitte Methodology to develop solutions to issues identified on internal inspections and designs / suggests best practices to be used by practitioners in addressing identified deficiencies
• Holding constructive discussions, challenging senior members of the engagement team on the appropriateness of and approach to identified audit risks
• Liaising with engagement teams on resolution of any issues: Providing added value for engagement teams and the wider audit practice, supporting them in performing quality audits by collating insights and considering their wider communication throughout the firm
• Ability to perform causal factor analysis to identify the root cause of a problem
• Ability to challenge remediation plans
• Support practitioners through external and regulatory inspections
• Perform a variety of monitoring functions across the audit practice including independence, AWM monitoring

Qualifications

• Honours Accounting Degree
• Registered CA(SA)
• 7 years working experience: 5 years in a client facing role; 3 of these in a management role.
• Audit experience in the financial services industries - primarily banking, insurance, retirement funds and medical schemes.

Additional Information

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive.

Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

We are committed to employment equity and building a diverse and inclusive workplace across the African continent.

Our recruitment processes are aligned with our Employment Equity Plan and the principles of the Employment Equity Act.

Preference may be given to candidates from designated groups.

We actively support the inclusion of people with disabilities and embrace neurodiversity in the workplace.

We recognise and value the unique strengths that neurodivergent individuals bring, and we are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.