Specialist Audit - Compliance Monitoring at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The Compliance is looking for someone who is passionate about technology, who has experience working  with technology infrastructure and systems analysis.  The successful candidate will join the Compliance Monitoring & Testing team to ensure adherence to relevant laws, regulations and internal polices of the business and execute monitoring assignments in accordance with the Group Compliance Assurance Methodology, relevant policies, procedures and quality standards.

Job Description

• Execute all of the monitoring/audit phases - planning and scoping (identification of risks and controls), fieldwork (execution of design and operating effectiveness assessments) and reporting (ensure audit observations and planned actions are agreed with management for factual accuracy).
• Ensure that delivery adheres to the Compliance Assurance Methodology and quality standards.
• Prepare monitoring/audit observations and make sure that they are concise, factually accurate and cover all of the significant issues. The observations must be insightful, address the root causes, and have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk.

Stakeholder engagement and Portfolio management

• Develop and maintain relationships with business (including 1and 2 Line of Defence) and actively monitor the compliance risk profile of the business to inform assurance planning, reporting and delivery.
• Support the Combined Assurance effort across the 3 LOD to strengthen the control environment.

​Knowledge and skills

• Practical experience of development and execution of IT General and Application Controls, analytics programs to assess risk and related control environments as part of an internal or external audit role/function, or as part of a risk management function
• In-depth working knowledge of GRC systems and integration with Data Lakes (e.g. Auditbond, Archer GRC, Hadoop & AWS Data Lakes)
• In-depth knowledge of relevant financial regulations and industry best practices.

Advantageous:

• Practical knowledge of data mining, data analysis and visualization techniques
• Advantageous - Cyber security skill and experience such as security assessments, firewall wall configuration, DevSecOps, etc.
• Experience doing technology or cyber security audit or assurance work
• CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor; CIA - Certified Internal Auditor;  CFSA - Certified Financial Services Auditor; CCSA - Certification in Control Self-Assessment
• Cyber security industry accreditation/certification (e.g. CND, S+, CEH, ISO 27000)
• Knowledge of data Visualisation/Dashboards tools/RPA

Education

• B Degree (e.g. Commercial, Informatics, Statistics, Computer Science, Audit)
• Programming / software development experience
• Min of 5 years in compliance, risk management or audit within a financial institution