Audit Portfolio Manager

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact
**REQ 114848- Tshego Semenya

**Career Stream**

Auditing

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self Professional

**Position**

Audit Portfolio Manager: RBB

**Job Purpose**

To conduct portfolio audits and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure risk is mitigated in accordance to Nedbank Group standards.

**Responsibilities**:

- Strategic insights & Client Centricity:_
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, emerging risks and industry trends (including competitors and digital trends).
- Understand current business strategy, reality, impact of transformation, digital initiatives, risks and expectations and consider key and/or emerging risks to update the annual risk-based annual audit plan, in order to support relevant GIA reporting.
- Be commercially minded with a Nedbank client centric approach and understand the broader business strategy in the auditing approach.
- Transformational Assurance:_
- 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.
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems through agile thinking.
- Identify and assess the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of manual and automated controls within audit scope and utilising data analytics.
- Identify and ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines in line with audit scope.
- Influence stakeholders to address inefficiencies in resolving audit findings through utilising professional experience in demonstrating benefits of best audit practice.
- Ensure continuous improvement of the quality of audits through providing professional insights.
- Ensure improved productivity and efficiency and the delivery of projects within agreed timelines.
- Achieve operational excellence and support the implementation of business optimisation improvement in GIA.
- Deal with complex verbal and documented information and data in the audit process.
- Digital Platform & Data Driven Audits:_

**Job responsibilities continued**
- 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 assignment and reports that provide intelligence and meaningful insights that enable the management of risk to be a strategic and competitive differentiator for Nedbank.
- The ability of story-telling and writing reports in a succinct and concise manner which is visually appealing and at an appropriate level for various stakeholders and governance forums, including Group Audit Committee.
- Business Partner Relationships:_
- Build and maintain an open and constructive relationship during and outside of scheduled as a Trusted Advisor with senior internal and external stakeholders including External Audit and Business Executives and the risk and compliance community.
- 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.).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.

Minimum Experience Level
- 5+ years in banking (preferably within Auditing, Risk or Compliance)

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification
- CA (SA)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and optional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA)

Essential Certifications
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and optional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA)

Type of Exposure
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas.
- Conducting quality assurance reviews
- Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Auditing
- Interacting with diverse people
- Analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data
- Financial services; preferable banking
- Communicating standards to others
- Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Audit reporting
- Audit s