Manager Management Assurance

7 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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.Job Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. risk methodology, governance and delivery objectives

**Job Description**:
Accountability: Assurance Planning, Fieldwork, Reporting & Delivery
- Plan the delivery of assigned assurance reviews to a high quality and in line with Key Performance Indicators as per the methodology. This will include adequate resourcing scheduling, meeting key deliverables in terms of audit timelines and review of audit work to confirm that the minimum requirements as per methodology are met.
- Develop a detailed knowledge of the methodology by attending training sessions to ensure that approved reviews are risk focused.
- Act as a mentor for risk assurance officers and peers to provide guidance to ensure that their work exceeds quality standards.
- Contribute to the annual planning process by providing feedback and knowledge in terms of business. This will include identifying auditable entities, assessing the assurance needs assessment and preparing all Management Information reports required.
- Management of the following: Audit universe, auditable entities, audit delivery, people development and maintain relationships with accountable stakeholder management on each RA review.
- Engage with Internal Audit (IA) colleagues during assignments and request technical assistance where required.
- Perform assurance reviews and issues assurance / pre-validation within the agreed upon turn around times
- Proactively provide on-the-job training to the RA team - Synergy and confirm through inspection of the assurance work that the results are completed, updated and approved as required by the Quality Assurance scorecard
- Develop testing strategies for key controls within the business to adequately mitigate the risks. An example of this is to determine the sample size of the item to be tested, the period in which the sample will be selected from and then determine the applicable test to confirm that the control is operating effectively.
- Manage the execution of Design Effectiveness Testing (DEA) and Operational Effectiveness Testing (OET) of the RA team in line with methodology requirements and as per the requirements of the QA scorecard.
- Review the DEA and OET working papers of controls tested.
- Based on the reviews performed, provide effective feedback to RA staff during the audit assignment to confirm that working papers are completed in line with the methodology and assurance standard.
- Engage with management and RA team members on progress of reviews and to provide regular feedback on issues identified where the control has failed either at a DEA or OET level.
- Proactively take on additional tasks as delegated by the AFS Head of ERM, Risk Governance and Combined Assurance.
- Use business knowledge to assess evolving risks, write high quality reports with observations which are insightful, address the root cause, have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk, support the Issues Assurance process.
- Raise observations as early as possible and agree actions before completion of fieldwork and write concise, accurate Executive Summaries.
- Deliver high quality audit reports, aligned to the quality standard and best practice methodologies which include all significant issues identified in the audit.
- Review management action plans to confirm that the identified risks associated to the control failure are adequately mitigated and appropriate action dates are provided. Actions plans are to be specific, measurable, timely, achievable and realistic.

Accountability: Management & Leadership
- Mentor and coach less experienced team members by providing guidance around the methodology and assurance process.
- Support AFS risk management team to identify, attract, develop and retain talent on an on-going basis.
- Support AFS risk management in measuring productivity through the embedment of tools that can track the RA teams productivity against buget
- Manage the teams that assigned to the operate effectively by delegating assurance and ICP work to empower each individual team member and to enhance stakeholder relationships
- Provide timely feedback to address development areas and recognise quality and output achievements.
- Provide constructive, timely and balanced feedback to RA team members, peers and Heads of Risk.
- Manage the full RA team to ensure effective delivery of the RA plan.
- Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching. Encourage frequent knowledge sharing b

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