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About the Division

The value that Deloitte Risk Advisory Africa creates for organisations is synonymous with operational excellence. Our five business areas work in unison to provide integrated solutions unique to the organisational requirements of any business.

In a world that is constantly changing, organisations need to adapt quickly to respond to new risks and take advantage of new opportunities. Deloitte's Risk Advisory practice advises organisations on how to effectively mitigate risk and make informed and intelligent risk decisions around business processes, technology and operations.

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What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realise your full potential

The main purpose of the job is to lead the Service Area through driving and implementation of strategy, revenue generation and business growth.

Focus on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development.

Specialised Technical Capabilities:

Sets Strategy and Drives Delivery Excellence for Technology Risk Solutions:

Ability to lead client through end-to-end design and delivery of forward looking, holistic, and business-aligned Technology Risk solutions

·       Owns end-to-end delivery of enterprise-level technology and Technology risk programs, including requirements, supporting strategies and architectures, and appropriately manages and mitigates risks across the program

·       Understanding the interlinks between the sub-offerings at a technical level in order to enhance market presence

·       Adopts a holistic view when recommending solutions, leveraging leading practices to align technology risk solutions with business strategy and specific industry issues

·       Anticipates risks, opportunities, and broader organizational implications of proposed recommendations, and proactively define mitigating solutions

·       Leads stakeholders in building executive-level support and organizational buy-in to help enable and sustain the proposed programs

·       Builds a brand within a chosen domain and industry and is regarded internally and externally as a subject matter expert

·       Stays current on market trends and regulations, and anticipates risk / opportunities; advises client accordingly

Sets Strategy for Assurance Engagements:

Ability to design strategies for assurance engagements that optimize business impact

·       Effectively defines the type of assurance engagement to be performed and aligns internal and external stakeholders accordingly.

·       Applies professional judgement to control observations and deficiencies, in line with appropriate deficiency evaluation frameworks.

·       Helps client translate results of assurance engagements reports into prioritized decisions to enhance the alignment between assurance process and overall client’s strategic goals.

Technical competencies:

·       Translate technology risk into a boardroom conversation

·       Prepare project and divisional budgets and advise on resource plans

·       Lead executive-level meetings, discussions and best practices development

·       Drive sales activities (RFP, orals, etc.).  Demonstrate Sales and Negotiation skills.

·       Board and executive level experience

·       Responsible for day-to-day Operations, including People Management, Financial Management, Succession and capability build

·       Expertise in field with excellent industry and business knowledge

·       Strong business acumen

·       Demonstrated leadership skills

·       Demonstrated execution of complex projects to profitable outcomes 

·       Skilled in drafting and presenting client and audit proposals

·       Interpret complex technology-related business challenges and ability to respond by conceiving innovative, cost optimised and holistic solutions for clients.

·       Laws and regulations relevant to IT and Specialised Assurance

·       Proficient in the Deloitte Audit Methodology

·       Pro-active attitude towards making the business work, winning business, staff development, exceptional delivery, business development, continuous improvement

·       Leader of PCAOB and SOX engagements. 

·       Leader of TPA engagements, including targeting Cloud providers.

·       Leader of Digital Risk and Emerging Technology solutions and engagements. 

·       RA-wide focus and knowledge of services.  

·       Leads innovation initiatives and drive implementation of these across the business.

·       Design and implementation of ITSA Controls Advisory solutions to enhance service delivery and grow business revenue. 

·       Leads skill development for selected Controls Advisory offerings, including:

o    Network applications and infrastructure

o    Enterprise architecture

o    Data storage and management; 

o    ITIL Incident and Change Management

o    FSI banking, card, fraud and financial crime

o    Payments

o    Agile / DevOps

o    Cloud Technologies

o    Cognitive Technologies (AI, ML, RPA etc).

Behavioural Competencies:

·       Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal

·       Able deliver multiple engagements on time and within budget

·       Proven ability to make decisions and the right judgement calls in complex projects and situations

·       Creates a culture of trust, ownership and accountability across teams and projects

·       On the job coaching for managers and professional staff and taking accountability for multiple large engagements

·       Manages large engagement / multiple engagement deadlines holistically, identifying risks and escalating

·       Drives continuous improvement

·       Custodian of the business, shaping offerings that we need to proactively take to the market

Minimum qualifications:

Relevant Degree, Honours, or Post Graduate Diploma.

Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM or CISSP + relevant CPD that establishes credibility and capability in the IT Risk market

Successful completion of LADC

If direct entry proven experience and any qualification

Desired qualifications:

Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM or CISSP + relevant CPD that establishes credibility and capability in the IT Risk market

Advanced degrees in Information Technology, advanced degrees in business (e.g. MBA or similar) advantageous

Experience:

12+ years relevant working experience in a client facing role; 7 of these in a management role. Business development / market making experience preferred

Proven experience in IT Audit, Third Party Assurance and/or IT Controls advisory in selected industries.

Seen as a market industry leader in IT assurance and advisory

Is able to convey IT assurance and advisory requirements at all CXO levels, (CIO, CTO, CFO, CISO and CEO)

Experience in implementing leading-edge digitized IT Audit approach and solutions.

How you’ll grow

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Centre. https://deloitte.zoomforth.com/du 

Benefits

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you. https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/careers/articles/benefits.html

Our purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world. https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/impact-that-matters.html

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

Hybrid & Vaccination policy

Deloitte Africa has successfully launched the Hybrid Working model. Aligned with this model is our commitment to maintain an environment for personnel, clients and visitors that is safe and, as far as reasonably practicable, free from health risks.

Medical evidence provides overwhelming and empirical evidence that vaccination is currently the most effective means of preventing the spread of COVID-19 and reducing the likelihood of serious illness, death, transmissions and infections. More information about our mandatory vaccination policy will be discussed during the recruitment process for this position.