About Deloitte

Deloitte is the largest private professional services network in the world. Every day, approximately 220,000 professionals in more than 150 countries demonstrate their commitment to a single vision: to be the standard of excellence, while working towards one purpose – to make an impact that matters.

In South Africa, Deloitte is one of the leading professional services organisations, specialising in providing Audit, Tax, Consulting, Risk Advisory and Corporate Finance services. We serve clients in a variety of industries from financial services, to consumer business, energy, mining and manufacturing, tourism and the public sector, and we provide powerful business solutions to some of the world's most well-known and respected companies, including more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100.

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Our talented professionals and our clients understand the link between a strong learning and development programme and the ability for Deloitte to deliver on its promise of consistent, high-quality service delivery worldwide.

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About the Division

Our Assurance services go beyond merely meeting statutory requirements. We help our clients perform better and achieve their business objectives. We listen to their needs, think about the business implications and tailor our approach accordingly. In today's changing global economy, businesses need trusted advisors. Because Assurance professionals at Deloitte take the time to understand our clients' business as well as the industries in which they operate, we can help them identify major risks and opportunities over and above performance of the traditional financial reporting function. Our services include:

• Audit
• Accounting and Auditing
• Financial Institutions Services Team
• Capital Markets Team
• Actuarial & Insurance Solutions
• Actuarial & Analytics Solutions

Main Purpose of Job

Through continuous review and team engagement provide challenge and guidance to audit engagement teams of specific clients to ensure that the engagement teams comply with Deloitte policies, audit approach, auditing standards and regulation and appropriately identify, address and mitigate client, engagement and audit risks. Provide regular reporting on the assigned portfolio to the Audit Risk Leader.

Key Performance areas

Strategic Impact

·         Manages the implementation of the strategic imperatives in line with service area strategy relating to:

Client Impact: External / Internal

• Provides client management with sound professional advice and support across broad area of issues arising within area of expertise

Operational Effectiveness

• Manages day-to-day operations and delivery by team to clients

Development/Growth of Team

·         Recruits, mentors and guides team members and shares expertise and knowledge with counselees on an ongoing basis

Budgets / Profitability

Leadership Capabilities

·         Living our Purpose : Acts as a role model and inspires others to embrace and live our purpose and values

·         Talent development :Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams

·         Performance drive : Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders

·         Influence : Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact

·         Strategic Direction:  Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives

·         Competitive Edge: Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement

·         Inspirational Leadership: Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires followership through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others

Technical and Professional Capabilities

·         Stakeholder Focus: Integrates deep insight into stakeholders’ needs with audit and risk advisory expertise to deliver complex engagements

·         Become experts in risk assessments and audit responses: Takes a broad, strategic view in risk assessment and controls strategy and demonstrates deep knowledge of the entity’s complex business processes tailoring the audit approach, as appropriate

·         Integrate engagement teams and manage referred work: Integrates the contribution of auditors, experts and specialists while leading the engagement team

·         Make appropriate use of tools, guidance and methodology: Demonstrates an informed and in-depth understanding of tools, guidance and methodology in shaping the overall audit approach

·         Manage project plans to optimize engagements: Plans and monitors delivery of complex engagements, drawing on appropriate resources and communicating expectations clearly to guide the team towards efficient performance

·         Formulate reasonable judgements and conclusions in order to deliver informative and timely outputs: Critically evaluates and reviews evidence and documentation to ensure that robust judgments are made and appropriate professional skepticism is being applied

·         Apply Ethical and Professional Standards: Takes ownership of all business security, ethical and compliance matters in relation to the audit, ensuring that team members comply with the firm's standards

What you’ll do / Specialized Competencies

·         Risk Management Program (“RMP”) client portfolio

o    Review of audit risk assessment to ensure that significant risks and focus areas are appropriately identified

o    Provide challenge and guidance on risk matters to the RMP audit engagement team

·         Reporting

o    Provide regular reporting to the Africa Audit Risk Leader on the performance and status of the RMP engagements, their risk evolution and how risks are mitigated.

·         Risk Forecasting

o    Identification of anticipated, forecast and occurring risk events and their impact on the RMP client portfolio, ensuring that the RMP engagement team appropriately responds.

Qualification 

·         Minimum Qualifications     - CA

·         Desired Qualifications - Honours Bcom Accounting and CA (SA)

Minimum Experience

·         5 years working experience (including articles) with a minimum of 2 years’ management experience in an audit firm, able to demonstrate leadership experience, risk management and risk intelligence

Desired Experience

·         Significant experience in financial services in particular the banking sector, excellent knowledge of financial reporting standards (including in particular IAS39/IFRS 9, IAS 32 and IFRS 7) and financial services laws and regulations in South Africa with working experience and knowledge of financial services laws and regulations elsewhere in Africa an advantage