Audit Graduate Recruitment Talent and Bursary Manager

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 450,000+ people located across more than 150 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 Internal Client Services, Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T). 

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

This role has two key functions: Talent management and Bursary management.

Talent Management:

• Accountable for defining and driving a clear strategic talent agenda aligned to business priorities.
• Designs and implements innovative content and programmes to attract, engage, and develop top graduate talent
• Lead initiatives that strengthen employer brand, enhance workforce readiness, and build future leadership pipelines
• Champion the adoption of new practices and leverages insights from data to improve workforce planning, retention, and talent effectiveness
• Ensures firm objectives feed through to engagements and upskilling initiatives
• Develops and implements Audit Graduate Recruitment initiatives that link to the firm strategy and ensure team evolvement to future fit
• Collaborates with internal teams to identify networking initiatives
• Drives wider collaboration with internal teams to create programmes that upskill graduates to be ready for the world of work
• Takes ownership and responsibility for the identification of top talent in audit graduates which includes review of psychometric assessment components and making these more technologically pronounced and efficient
• Creates and drives a presence with CA students to drive a strong brand awareness as well as a connection between the student and the firm
• Gather, collate, and report on Trainee data to highlight trends and areas of opportunity for future intervention

Bursary Management:

• Provide strategic oversight of the national bursary portfolio, including allocation and management of significant funding
• Formulate high-level decisions on funding distribution, student support, and alignment of bursary investment with long-term workforce capability needs
• Ensure strong governance, reporting, and measurable impact from bursary investments.
• Design, drive and manage the strategy and process
• Review suspensive criteria and standards of bursary award based on competitor activity, best-practice and Deloitte firm objectives
• Monitor bursary applications, contract activity and regional coordination on administration and student liaisons
• Decide on awarding bursaries based on an allocated budget on an annual basis with forecasting required for rollover candidates
• Accurate and clean data reports on ROI and throughput rates.
• Bursary targets aligned to firm equity targets and pipelines managed to meet future targets.
• Understanding of external bursary market: Sourcing co-funding partnerships to supplement bursary funding for both South African and Namibian pipeline, this includes private and institution funding/donors
• Gather clear and comprehensive understanding of the strategy and operations of Deloitte, the regions as well as the business units
• Manage Bursary Consultant portfolios and strategic directions
• Build and maintain relationships with key NPO and funders with the aim of creating access to a wider pool of funded students

Reporting:

• Take responsibility for the reporting of the Talent Projects aligned to Audit Graduate Recruitment strategy (monthly)
• Deliver on a Return-on-Investment report showing the degree of effectiveness of activations and events
• Report on bursary funding allocations and remaining funds, ROI of these awards given and success of students awarded funding

Communication & Strategic Relationship Management:

• Play an active role in the Audit Graduate Recruitment Communication Strategy, including but not limited to:
  • Talent initiative broadcasting
  • Audit and Assurance Talent attraction reporting
  • Stakeholder engagement at all levels both internally and externally
• Responsible for all Talent project communication, this includes but not limited project briefing, communication plans and post project feedback, to Audit Graduate Recruitment, project teams, brand ambassadors, and stakeholders
• Responsible for flow of push and pull communication of Audit Graduate Recruitment Talent projects
• Visible identification with stakeholders (students; university and internal Deloitte stakeholders)
• Deloitte Relationships:
  • Establish a trusted Business Partner relationship with key decision makers aligned to role and deliverables
• External Stakeholders
  • Identify, establish, and maintain a trusted business relationship with strategic external stakeholders aligned to role and deliverables
• Ensures a healthy flow of continual communication to stakeholders, highlighting both firm and Audit Graduate Recruitment news
• Candidates (Signed and Unsigned)
  • Build and maintain solid and lasting relationships which is focused on creating engagement with the firm
  • Establishes strong relationships with student chapters and student bodies to access talent pools

• Tertiary degree in the relevant field 
• Master's Degree, industrial psychology/ CA(SA) is desired 

Minimum Experience:

• 5-8 years' experience in Talent Management and Talent Acquisition
• Previous Audit Graduate Recruitment experience and exposure to bursary management is advantageous 

Functional Competencies:

• Critical thinking 
• Facilitation and content creation skills
• Strong prioritsation and business acumen skills
• Excellent communication skills across all mediums
• Negotiation & Sales ability
• In-depth understanding of business operations
• Ability to think strategically as well as understand the detail.
• Networking skills 
• Data Analytics Skills
• Conflict management skills
• Leadership skills

Technical Competencies:

• Excellent computer literacy
• Project management skills
• Presentation skills

Behavioural Competencies:

• Highly influential
• Ability to deal with pressure
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task
• Flexibility and embracing of change
• Ability to actively engage with people at all levels
• Strong relationship building skills
• Focused on client service and satisfaction
• Ability to work in a team
• High level of energy and enthusiasm
• Team Management

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

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.

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