Internal Auditor

MANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private Higher Education distance provider, offering Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications, has/have the following vacancy/vacancies available:
Internal Auditor - (Durban)

**Description**:
Internal Audits

**Undertake audits by**:

- Developing audit scopes and generating audit working documents
- Communicating audits to the relevant process owner/s

Documenting and evaluating systems and controls to determine their existence, adequacy, effectiveness and continuity to ensure the following:

- effectiveness and efficiency of operations
- compliance to regulatory requirements and institutional policies and procedures
- reliability and integrity of information safeguarding of assets
- Engaging with staff throughout the audit with the view to ensure conformity with applicable policy and procedures in all phases of the audit process
- Providing guidance where such policies and procedures do not exist and with the implementation thereof
- Consolidating results and compiling audit reports
- Developing and discussing findings, recommendations and time lines (or corrective action with responsible person of operations audited and monitor the impl8mentation status of agreed recommendations
- Establishing audit review dates within a 5-year cycle.

Risk management
Establish and implement the institutional risk management strategy:

- Develop and implement institutional risk management plan and facilitate cascading of the plan to the departments
- Identifying procedural gaps and risk areas within business processes
- Collaborating with operational and academic staff to establish internal mechanisms by which to mitigate risks and develop policies, procedures, standards and systems surrounding the risks
- Reviewing the effectiveness of the implemented mechanism/internal controls to reduce risks and advise relevant process owner/s of findings
- Monitor implementation of the risk mitigation plan stemming from risk assessments conducted
- Conducting research to determine best practices and benchmark against other institutions to enhance the management of quality processes and at times this may require collecting, analysis and interpreting statistical data.
- Roll out institutional Risk Assessment awareness campaign

Promote quality standards

**Promote quality standards throughout the organisation by**:

- Participate in reviewing institutional documents including but not limited to policies, procedures, website content and other materials for stakeholder consumption
- Providing guidance for the development of standard operating procedures for departments
- Conduct surprise audits and observations in departments and meetings

Quality Assurance Management System (QAMS)

**Monitor the implementation of the QAMS by**:

- Contribute towards committee activities and implementation of resolutions
- Provide reasonable assurance that correct and current documents are maintained on the QMS
- Provide reasonable assurance the submission of quality documents required from departments
- Monitoring the implementation of planned quality improvement initiatives
- Contribute to the cascading of QAMS to all departments
- Internal Audit & Risk Assessment components of QAMS Ecosystem are blueprinted, with accompanying matrices and forms
- Ensure institutional compliance with POPIA

Investigations
- Conduct and/or coordinate investigation for non-compliance with and/or violations of the institution’s policies and procedures, and other regulations.

General Duties
- Generate departmental reports at specific annual intervals
- Organise and conduct meetings and presentations, develop appropriate templates for meeting documents, collate information and generate meeting packs and record minutes of the meetings
- Filing of reports with the appropriate annexures
- Develop forms and templates for utilisation within the institution
- Office administration
- Partaking on special projects and committee work

**Qualifications**:

- Diploma specialising in auditing
- Preferably Bachelor's degree specialising in auditing

Experience
- At least three years of experience directly related to auditing duties and responsibilities in higher education.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to analyse and solve problems
- Ability to supervise and train assigned staff
- Ability to successfully communicate policies, and procedures in a manner easily understood by stakeholders
- Knowledge of current changes and developments in the South African Higher Education landscape
- Ability to work effectively with diverse people
- Ability to analyse processes and make recommendations for improvements
- Knowledge of the Institution’s and regulatory auditing policies, standards, and procedure