Audit Portfolio Manager: Personal and Private Banking

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant**
- REQ 141448 Thembi Mtshali
- Location: Johannesburg
- Job Family
- Risk, Audit and Compliance
- Career Stream
- Auditing
- Leadership Pipeline
- Manage Self Professional
- FAIS Affected

**Job Purpose**
- To conduct portfolio audits in a professional manner with a focus on Information Technology and Process Optimization and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance to Nedbank Group standards.

**Responsibilities**:
**Strategic insights & Client Centricity**:

- Understand current business strategy, Nedbank’s client centric approach, digital initiatives, risks and expectations and consider key and/or emerging risks to provide input into the risk-based audit planning processes.
- Be commercially minded and understand the broader business strategy in order to bring in the relevance in the auditing approach.

**Transformational Assurance**:

- Lead and execute audit assignment planning, fieldwork and reporting in line with the Group Internal Audit (GIA) methodology and Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), including file completion, continuous improvement of audit quality and delivery of audits within agreed timelines.
- Identify and assess the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of manual and automated controls within audit scope and utilising data analytics.
- Influence stakeholders to address inefficiencies in resolving audit findings through utilising professional experience in demonstrating benefits of best audit practice.
- Identify process optimisation improvements by assessing existing and newly implemented processes within business.

**Digital Platform & Data Driven Audits**:
**Integrated Risk and Control Environment**:

- Engage with the risk and compliance community to ensure coordinated assurance approach and assessment of risk and control to ensure scope is appropriately defined.

**Impactful Reporting**:

- Prepare quality, relevant and commercially astute audit reports that provide intelligence and meaningful insights that enable the management of risk to be a strategic and competitive differentiator for Nedbank.

**Business Partner Relationships**:

- Build trusting relationships and improve credibility and quality of audit outputs by achieving team objectives through engaging with staff, peers and other departments for reporting purposes.

**Effective Leadership**:

- Create an environment of teamwork that contributes to Group Internal Audit (GIA).
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
- Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).

People Specification
- Essential Qualification
- Honours Degree (with Computer Science/Information Systems/Auditing).
- Qualification on Process Optimization an advantage.
- Preferred Certification
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) - preferable
- Minimum Experience Level
- 5+ years in banking (preferably within Auditing, Risk, Compliance or Information Technology).
- Experience in the big 4 audit firms an advantage.
- Exposure to process optimisation.

**Types of Exposures**
- Achieving operational excellence by providing a view on strategic implementations and the optimisation of processes improved and implemented within Business.
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Auditing in a banking and / or financial services environment.
- The ability to interact with diverse people.
- Financial services; preferably banking experience - retail and wealth banking exposure (including a knowledge of products and/or channels) and insurance exposure.
- Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Banking experience
- Changing digital landscape and technology
- Client Centricity, Treating Customers Fairly and Conduct
- Business Acumen and Commerciality
- Report-writing skills
- Reputational risk management
- Governance, Risk, and Controls
- Behavioural Competencies
- Managing Work
- Monitoring Information
- Building Partnerships
- Quality Orientation
- Continuous Improvement
- Work Standards
- Courage
- Adaptability

**Discalimer**

**_ Please contact the Nedbank._**
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_