Deputy Business Unit Leader at Auditor-General of South Africa

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

• Contributes to the formulation and implement organizational strategic initiatives.
• Develop the BU BSC and direct the implementation of the BU operational strategies and plans.
• Monitor the implementation of the BU and organizational strategies and plans - where necessary take the necessary corrective action.

Product Management

• Direct the audit operations in line with the relevant audit methodology and standards;
• Direct and drive the business unit-wide audit strategy for assigned areas and measure progress against reported BU goals.
• Coordinate resources for auditing activities and plans including integrated audits with other business units (SAS) and external audit firms on pre-issuance and Contract Work activities to ensure strategic objectives are met.
• Provide leadership for technical and operational matters in the business unit on implementing best practices, AGSA strategic initiatives and improve risk management.
• Provide ongoing quality assurance within the audit process by continuously interacting with audit teams, audit firms and reviewing audit outputs.
• Lead sensitive, complex, and high risk engagements.
• Signing of audit reports for significant and complex audits as per delegations.
• Lead and monitor the implementation of the audit strategy.
• Lead the implementation of the status of records review.
• Drive and direct audit strategy for large and complex SOEs.
• Drive and direct the quality management strategy of the BU in line with the new ISQM requirements.

Stakeholder Management

• Direct and drives the visibility of leadership through effective scanning of the auditee environment to ensure clear understanding of auditees business requirements and to translate this into clear deliverables for the execution team and continuously getting feedback from stakeholders
• Drive the implementation of the Business Unit stakeholder engagement plan in line with the AGSA stakeholder engagement framework
• Engage with the stakeholders as per the engagement plan which includes consideration for political sensitivity, complexity and seniority.
• Interact with relevant oversight structures and relevant committees regarding briefings on audit reports / outcomes.

People Management

• Develop and facilitate implementation of People Plan
• Facilitate and monitor the implementation of BU transformation strategies.
• Drive Vision achievement/ organisation alignment through impact-driven strategic conversations with internal staff on an on-going basis.
• Ensure effective administration of the training office accreditation
• Implement BU initiatives to improve culture and staff engagement.
• Develop a model for creation of a sustainable pipeline of resources that are able to service large and complex auditees including specialists skills.

Financial management

• Revenue and expenditure management and control (monitor BU budget)
• Provide strategic direction on the financial viability of the business unit - especially with the ailing SOE as they have significant impact on the BU currently.

 Operational management

• Ensures that BU deliverables are executed economically, efficiently and effectively in terms of recoverability and productivity.
• Implement interventions to collect debt and improve cash flow.

Other responsibilities(applicable to all JD's)

• Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required

Qualification & Experience

• This position requires a minimum qualification of registered CA (SA) or RGA or ACCA.
• CA/SA qualification would be preferred.
• Minimum 9 years relevant post qualification experience with at least 5 years’ experience operating at a senior manager level.
• Atleast 2 years’ experience in the audit of schedule 2 State Owned Entity.