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About the Division

The value that Deloitte Risk Advisory Africa creates for organisations is synonymous with operational excellence. 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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We are looking for Senior Consultants and Assistant Managers to make an impact in our team and at the clients. This role will support the Engagement team in delivery of services to clients on engagements and projects.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Impact: Support the Engagement team in delivery to the client. Assist in development of client presentations/ discussion documentation. Build business relationships leading to lead generation. Gather information to understand broader offerings of Deloitte and awareness of opportunities for cross-selling. Identify business opportunities at existing clients. Raise ideas to address issues, that may enhance / renew service offerings to clients.
• Client Impact: Interact with different levels of management and clients. Consult as appropriate on technical and client issues. Handle and resolve minor challenges. Self and team supervision.
• Operational Effectiveness: Proactively identify client needs and technical issues and propose resolutions to address these. Manage risk in area of engagement in alignment with Deloitte policies. Consistently review and analyse accuracy and quality of own deliverables. Maintain clear communication channels with engagement team members on the work status.
• Development/ Growth of Team: Share expertise and knowledge with team members and ensure quality and effective delivery of work. Mentor junior team members.
• Budgets & profitability: Maintain quality and timeous delivery as per the SLA.

Core Professional and Technical capabilities of the successful candidate:

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• Business Process Assessment
• Internal Controls Analytics
• Data Analytics and Technology
• Knows the Business and the Industry
• Global Mindset

Specialized Technical capabilities of the successful candidate:

• Ability to develop and execute strategies, architectures, and roadmaps to provide clients with need-based, value-adding, and cost-effective technology and data risk solutions
• Develops effective and sustainable technology and data risk analytics strategies by tailoring leading frameworks and models based on key clients’ business and technology needs
• Assesses, designs, and implements holistic and integrated data and analytics solutions that align with client’s business and technology objectives
• Creates design artefacts to support the development of data architectures, data models, data and analytics solutions
• Ensures effective implementation of proposed solutions by conducting appropriate testing (e.g., unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing)
• Understands the interaction of business and technology processes / risks and can explain it in business terms to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Enhances client’s ability to manage data by designing and implementing comprehensive approaches and solutions
• Builds functional knowledge within one or two particular technology and data risk domains, while maintaining a general understanding of broader technology and data risk service offerings
• Is proficient with multiple technology and data risk management products and is able to effectively integrate them to meet and exceed client’s needs.

Technical Competencies:

• Technical expert in specific area and/or industry
• Demonstrated project management skill
• Consulting skills
• Experience in drafting and presenting to clients
• Good report writing skills
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding
• Business acumen

Knowledge and experience across multiple areas including:

• Programming Coding in variety of languages (SAS, SQL, R, Python etc.)
• Business Analysis (including business process mapping)
• Data Modelling
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Data Management
• Data Engineering (extractions, transformations, loading patterns)
• Descriptive analytics (ability to extract insights and trends from data based on requirements)
• Cloud Analytics
• SAP Analytics
• Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
• Relevant Technical fundamentals at that point in time to what the market is procuring

Behavioural Competencies:

• Continuous learning mindset
• Curiosity
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrates ability to work efficiently and meet all deadlines consistently
• Proven application of providing guidance to junior members of the project team
• Demonstrates readiness to take decisions
• Displays initiative and takes accountability for delivery of own work and that of other team members.
• Supervises and monitors adherence to deadlines for self and other team members
• Ability to prioritize competing responsibilities as per their urgency and importance

Minimum Qualifications  

BSC Computer Science, BSC Honours Computer Science, BSC Maths Statistics, BEng (all disciplines), BCom (Informatics preferred).

Desired Qualifications    

Master’s degree or certifications and proven analytics training

Minimum Experience Criteria       

Senior Consultant: 4 years of working experience

Assistant Manager: 5+ years working experience

Desired Experience Criteria

Senior Consultant: 4+ years’ relevant work experience

Assistant Manager: 6+ years’ relevant work experience

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.

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.

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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

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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.

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.