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The Auditor-General of South Africa ("AGSA") is established in terms of section 181(1) (e) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act No.108 of 1996) as a state institution supporting the constitutional democracy. The constitutional functions of the AGSA are set out in section 188 of the Constitution and sections 4 of the Public...
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Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Function
- Provide strategic inputs to the strategy of the business unit (BU) and manage the output of the centre to ensure implementation of the BU balance score card (BSC) initiatives.
- To drive the strategic direction of AGSA software and application products & services considering emerging and legacy technologies.
- To oversee strategy for both product and bespoke code base platform definition and implementation.
Product Management
Innovation
- To proactively drive innovation with new ideas and options made available by new technologies.
- To maintain and actively contribute to a list of innovation & research projects.
- To assist by offering strategic and technical advice for anyone working on these projects.
- Implementing and monitoring ongoing strategies to enable the organisation to deliver quality and excellence through robust testing education and policies that are balanced and appropriate to the scope of project being delivered.
- Foster a focus on excellence across the development team.
Systems Development Management
- Adopting and adapting systems development life cycle models based on the context of the work and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches
- Collaboration and open communication with stakeholders with a focus on delivering value from systems development
- Managing risks and allowing for timely adjustment of plans and deliverables to continue to meet customer requirements and deliver value
- Aligning systems development activity and deliverables with architectures and standards and ensuring quality, security and privacy are built in
- Developing roadmaps to communicate systems development plans
- Identifying the resources needed for all stages (planning, estimation, execution) of systems development projects and how demand will be met with a supply capacity.
- Facilitate technology and methodology decision making throughout team, including standardisation of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practice, source control and deployment processes.
Software Design
- Leads the selection and development of appropriate software design methods, tools, techniques; whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or more adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software design and software architectures.
- Ensures adherence to technical strategies and systems architectures (including security).
Programming/Software Development
- Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software construction and refactoring.
- Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects.
- Develops new methods and organisational capabilities and drives adoption of, and adherence to policies and standards.
User Experience Design
- Obtains organisational commitment to policies, standards, and strategies to deliver required usability, accessibility, and security.
- Specifies user experience design standards and methods to meet organisational objectives for systems, products and services and combining digital and off-line experiences.
- Plans and leads user experience design activities for strategic, large and complex programmes.
Application Support
- Provides input and implement plans regarding AGSA Application Architecture Landscape.
- Emphasises on Innovative solutions to increase operational efficiency specifically around mobility and the implementation thereof.
- Maintains applications to support operational and mobility requirements.
- Remediates of system failures, logging all failures, documenting work procedures and system configuration.
- Installation, administration, and configuration of business applications.
- Ensures that the AGSA software complies to licensing agreements.
- Determines software and hardware requirements to provide solutions to problems.
- Liaises with 3rd party vendors to resolve escalated incidents, problems, and queries.
Stakeholder management
- To scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of internal stakeholder needs and decide whether AGSA can inherit existing /support legacy code bases – and how to handle AGSA growing levels of software support
- Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Create strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders to enhance product development and conduct continuous and regular environmental scanning to enhance products and AGSA value proposition.
- Communicate the (ICT) strategy and objectives to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure understanding of these by all relevant stakeholders.
- Liaise with stakeholders and ensure that the organisation remains relevant and in-line with industry standards.
- Provide support and guidance to internal stakeholders on products design and meet their requirements.
- Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success in order to continuously improve on the service delivery.
- Ensure a well-considered value chain among colleagues within the BU and ensure complementarity of work and promote team work.
- Manage service level agreements (SLAs).
People Management
- Cascade the BU BSC at centre level.
- Provide leadership and direction for the centre and manage team performance to drive productivity.
- Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.
- Determine the mix and level of capability required to enable the centre to support BU and organisational objectives.
- Contribute to transformation/culture plans
Financial management and operational management
- Compile the centre budget and contribute to the development of the business unit’s budget.
- Manage the centre expenditure.
- Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
- Manage supply chain processes.
- Contribute to the risk assessment activities in the BU.
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.
- This position requires a minimum qualification of a Bachelor`s Degree (NQF level 7) in Computer Science / Information Technology or equivalent qualification AND Certification (s) with one or more development methodologies / programming languages
Skills, Experience & Education
Experience
- The incumbent requires at least 10 years in ERP/Enterprise Application platform and Software development, of which 5 years should be in a management role.
- Experience in working with API services
- Experience in applying lean and agile development methodologies
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Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Function
- Support the implementation of the business unit balance score card projects and initiatives.
Product management
Anti-Virus Management:
- Monitor gateway firewall for malicious activity and restrict network access using the firewall policy as per business requirements.
- Administer and monitor the firewall to prevent virus attacks from an external source.
- Scan all emails from external and internal sources for viruses and malicious attachments at the Microsoft Exchange server.
- Administer and maintain an enterprise-wide cloud-based anti-virus solution and ensure that all clients have the most recent updates.
Access Administration and User Support:
- Administer and maintain a remote access system (SSL VPN) for AGSA users.
- Provide second-line support to AGSA users with any security related queries within the SLA time frame.
- Research security software and hardware as determined by the ICT security line manager/ senior management.
- Administer, maintain and update an access list of all server usernames and passwords stored in a secure location.
- Provide input on security related software and hardware to ICT Security line manager or senior management for budgeting purposes.
Audits and risk management:
- Communicate risk and audit findings clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Drive the remediation of identified security issues and vulnerabilities by collaborating with relevant stakeholders and technical teams.
- Monitor the progress of remediation efforts to ensure timely and effective resolution of issues.
- Track and report on the status of remediation activities, ensuring that corrective actions are completed and validated.
Content Filtering:
- Administer and monitor a spam management solution in order to minimise the amount of spam received by the AGSA employees.
- Administer and monitor the filtering of harmful email attachments received from external sources at the gateway (firewall).
- Administer and monitor filtering of harmful and non-business-related email attachments received from internal and external sources at the relevant mail server.
- Administer and monitor filtering for all users browsing the Internet
- restricting access as per business requirements.
Email Security:
- Monitor and analyse email traffic for potential threats such as phishing, malware, and spam.
- Implement and maintain email filtering and encryption solutions to protect sensitive information.
- Conduct regular audits of email security protocols and policies to ensure compliance and effectiveness.
- Respond to and investigate email security incidents, providing timely resolution and documentation.
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure secure email configurations and best practices are followed.
Security Administration:
- Monitors the application and compliance of security administration procedures and reviews information systems for actual or potential breaches in security.
- Ensures that all identified breaches in security are promptly and thoroughly investigated and that any system changes required to maintain security are implemented.
- Ensures that security requirements, policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Investigates major breaches of security and recommends appropriate control improvements.
- Ensures overall security administration within the AGSA.
User Awareness Training:
- Develop and deliver information and cybersecurity awareness training programs for all AGSA employees.
- Create educational materials, including presentations and interactive content, to reinforce safe email practices and overall cybersecurity awareness.
- Assess the effectiveness of training programs through surveys, quizzes, and simulations.
- Stay updated on the latest threats and trends to ensure training content remains relevant.
- Foster a culture of security awareness by promoting best practices and encouraging reporting of suspicious activities.
Reports:
- Prepare and present regular reports on cybersecurity incidents, including email security threats, user awareness training outcomes, other relevant metrics, and overall cybersecurity posture.
- Analyse security metrics to identify trends, vulnerabilities, and areas for improvement.
- Document incidents, responses, and resolutions to maintain accurate records for compliance and auditing purposes.
- Collaborate with management to provide insights and recommendations for enhancing security measures based on report findings.
- Contribute to the development of key p
- Performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring the effectiveness of security initiatives.
Stakeholder Management
- Maintain effective relations with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage the feedback process to stakeholders by tracking all queries received, getting the relevant information and formulating appropriate responses according to the approved protocol.
People Management
- Manage own performance to drive productivity.
- Participate and/or take lead in the business unit transformation/culture plans.
- Provide support to the management team with regard to centre management and other people related tasks.
Financial and Operational Management
- Ensure compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
- Manage supply chain processes within scope of work.
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.
- This position requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in information technology or any related qualification (NQF level 7) and
- Security+ or any Security related certification or
- CISM/ CISSP Certification
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an Information or Cybersecurity role which includes:
- Application Security
- Anti-Virus Systems
- Access Management
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- Encryption Software
- Patch Management
- Web Content Filtering
- Email Content Filtering
- User Awareness Training
- Security Testing
- Microsoft Security suite/platform
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Audit Process
Planning
- Advise audit teams on technical matters related to the infrastructure sector
- Assist audit teams in identifying audit risks for the specific audit engagement in the built environment
- Assist the manager in resource planning for selected audits in the built environment/ infrastructure field
- Liaise with the manager and assist in compiling a budget for the audit and communicate this to audit team for selected audits in the infrastructure field
- Assist the manager to facilitate engagement meetings (entrance engagement) with management of auditees to discuss the scope, focus areas, objectives, methodology and due dates and
- Support the audit team to ensure that they receive the relevant documents to execute the audit.
Execution
- In collaboration with the audit team, execute, technical audit procedures on selected audits in the infrastructure field
- Consistently update the manager on the status of the selected audits in the infrastructure field
- Complete audit working papers on selected audits in the infrastructure field for review by the manager
- Provide coaching notes on reviewed working papers for selected audits in the infrastructure field
- Attend steering committee meetings (at least two per audit; first and final steering committee meetings) with departments and related senior management
- Assessing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities on infrastructure projects
- Assessing cost analysis for infrastructure projects
- Review risk assessments, value management and cost control reports on infrastructure projects
- Analyzing the costings for tenders awarded by government departments on selected infrastructure projects
- Analyzing outcomes and writing detailed and high impact audit reports on audited infrastructure projects
Reporting
- Compile technical and management reports for review by the manager for specific audits in the infrastructure field
- Contribute to impactful and relevant recommendations to government, programmes or audit areas in the infrastructure field
- Conduct and report on site visits
- Report on value of completed work on selected infrastructure projects
Research
- Review working papers and memos on research undertaken in the infrastructure field
- Interpret and synthesise information related to goals, strategies, policies and guidelines in the infrastructure field
- Oversee the undertaking of research in the infrastructure field to provide advice to internal stakeholders through sharing insights, risks and knowledge of the business and industry
- Compile relevant memos on research of complex and challenging audit themes arising from government and international priorities/programmes in the infrastructure field
People Management
- Manage the performance of staff, provide mentorship and support
- Identify opportunities to develop staff through on-the-job training and coaching
- Manage teams’ performance and implement a culture of high performance
- Address staff related enquiries
- Execute and adhere to transformation/culture plans
Stakeholder Engagement
Internal
- Build and maintain strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders within the AGSA (both Regularity Audit and Performance Audit) to ensure support during the audit process for both integration and stand-alone audits
- Provide guidance to stakeholders through sharing insights, risks, and knowledge of the business and industry to improve their understanding of technical matters in the infrastructure field
- Market the value of performance audits and develop initiatives for sharing insights, risks and experiences with regularity audit Business Units.
- Regularly engage with team members through centre meetings to discuss relevant audit work
External
- Build and maintain strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders at the auditees, in line with the Business Unit stakeholder engagement plan
- Assist in preparing for interactions with the Executive Authorities on key findings/outcomes.
- Ensure impactful, quality and meaningful engagements with external stakeholders
Financial Management
- Provide inputs on the formulation of a budget
- Manage own and team recoverability
- Effective project management (time, hours and costs) of the audit and relevant resource planning, to drive audit efficiencies
Administration
- Responsible for effective management of all administrative matters relating to the role. (e.g. timeous approvals, compliance with internal controls, etc.)
Ad-hoc duties (Applicable to All JD’s)
- Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required
Qualifications
- Degree/BTech in Civil Engineering
- Post graduate qualification will be an added advantage
Professional Registration
- Professional registration with a Professional Body as required in the built environment will be advantageous e.g. ECSA
- Registration as a candidate Engineer/technician with the ECSA or SACQSP is mandatory.
Experience
- At least 5 years’ industry specific experience in the infrastructure/ built environment.
- Experience in construction of buildings such as schools, clinic, hospitals, office buildings, etc. is essential
- Experience in infrastructure projects e.g. roads and storm water, sewer reticulation, water reticulation, social infrastructure (housing, health and education facilities) and bulk earthworks for municipal, provincial or national projects will be advantageous
- Experience in implementation of bulk services &/or internal reticulation
Knowledge
- Public sector knowledge or exposure to government infrastructure projects will be advantageous
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Strategic alignment
- Provide strategic inputs and support the implementation of the strategy of the business unit (BU).
- Support the SM in the effective implementation and monitoring of the BSC initiatives/actions plan for the team members.
- Identify value for money audit opportunities – integration and stand-alone audits.
Audit Responsibilities
Planning
- Plan and scope the audit project effectively. Allocate resources, define deadlines and ensure comprehensive and appropriate terms of reference is set for each review
- Identify in partnership with the Senior Manager(SM) a relevant audit team , including appointment of specialist or contract staff, and engage them on the audit plans and budget
- Ensure that appropriate audit components/sections are allocated to the audit team members in line with their skill level and areas for development
- Identify the need to appoint external specialists (CWC) as and when required, and manage the selection and appointment process
- Facilitate engagement meetings (entrance engagement) with auditee management to discuss the scope, focus areas, objectives, methodology, required audit documents and due dates
- Formulate technical audit procedures on selected projects
- Assist the audit team in identifying audit risks in infrastructure projects.
Execution
- Provide guidance and advise to audit teams on technical and feasibility studies, including site investigations
- Interpret project technical information e.g. detailed designs as well as complex calculations
- Advise audit teams on tendering procedures
- Advise audit teams on compliance of government infrastructure projects with legal requirements
- Assessing the sustainability of projects
- Provide detailed review of working papers and reports
- Execute technical audit procedures on selected projects
- Attend steering committee meetings (at least two per audit; first and final steering committee meetings) with departments and related senior management.
- Assessing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities on infrastructure projects
- Assessing cost analysis for infrastructure projects
- Review risk assessments, value management and cost control reports on infrastructure projects
- Advise audit teams on procurement strategy used on infrastructure projects
- Identifying, analysing and developing responses to commercial risks on infrastructure projects (applicable to QS)
- Analysing the costings for tenders awarded by government departments on selected infrastructure projects
- Analysing outcomes and writing detailed and impactful audit reports on audited infrastructure projects
- Constantly engage with manager to provide updates on audit progress and required support to complete the audit on time
- Ensure quality standards are met throughout the audit
Reporting
- Analysing outcomes and writing detailed and impactful audit reports
- Ensuring that all findings emanating from the audited infrastructure projects are communicated to the auditees
- Conduct and report on site visits
- Advise on value of completed work on selected infrastructure projects
- Accurately capture and update ASMIS information
Research
- Actively conduct research in the area of expertise
- Regular report back on the progress of research conducted.
- Review working papers and memos on research undertaken in the infrastructure field
- Review relevant memos on research of complex and challenging audit themes, arising from government and international priorities/programmes in the infrastructure field
Administrative Matters
- Responsible for effective management of all administrative matters relating to the role. (e.g. timeous approvals, compliance with internal controls, etc.)
Training and Development
- Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions of insights, risk and knowledge of the business and industry within the audit team, BU and the AGSA.
- Provide training to staff to improve their understanding of technical matters
Product Development and Marketing
- Assist with the development of industry specific products and services
- Assist with the marketing of the BU and its products to potential clients
Stakeholder Engagements
- Build and maintain strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders within the AGSA (both RA and PA) and with auditees to ensure support during the audit process for both integration and stand-alone audits.
- Interactions with the Executive Authorities on key findings/outcomes
- Effectively engage with key stakeholders on all levels
People Management
- Manage performance of staff, provide mentorship and support, and on-the-job training
- Responsible for the development of staff according to their development plans (PDPs)
- Manage teams’ performance and implement a culture of high performance
- Address staff related enquiries
- Support the implementation of the people plan for the centre/BU
- Ensure team members compliance with all AGSA policies
Financial Management
- Assist in identifying revenue growth opportunities within the component and optimise its operational expenditure
- Assist with the formulation of a budget
- Manage own and team recoverability
- Follow up debtor queries
- Ensure compliance with the internal controls in AGSA
- Ensure compliance with Supply Chain Management in AGSA
Ad-hoc duties (Applicable to All JD’s)
- Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required
Qualifications
- Post graduate qualification in Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or any approved built environment specialization.
Professional Registration
- Registration with a Professional Body as required in the built environment is mandatory e.g. ECSA, SACQSP, SACPCMP.
Experience
- At least 6 years’ industry specific experience in the infrastructure/ built environment (few years’ experience at a management level will be advantageous).
- Experience in infrastructure projects e.g. roads and storm water, sewer reticulation, water reticulation, social infrastructure (housing, health and education
- facilities) and bulk earthworks for municipal, provincial or national projects.
- Experience in compilation of tender documentation.
Knowledge
- Public sector knowledge
- Extensive knowledge in Infrastructure/ built environment field
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Audit Functional Areas
- Understand the South African political system and government
- Understand government priorities, policies and programmes
- Understand government administration
- Design audit plans
- Perform audits according to auditing standards (which includes financial and performance audit standards)
- Collect data and information/evidence for audit and other assignment purposes
- Analyse annual financial statements
- Analyse and interrogate data and information
- Obtain appropriate and factually correct audit evidence
- Compile audit working papers
- Identify and draft audit findings, problems and challenges with government systems, programmes and service delivery areas
- Identify root causes and effects of audit findings, problems and challenges with government systems, programmes and service delivery areas
- Use information and technology tools such as diagnostic tools, audit accelerators and any other IT tools in performing audits
- Knowledge sharing (audit insights, key risks from research and general knowledge)
- Compile high-quality impactful reports
- Compile high-impact and relevant recommendations on government programmes or audit focus areas
- Develop best practices/guidelines
- Contribute to the risk identification processes at auditees
Research and development
- Research audit themes arising from government priorities/programmes
- Scan the environment, perform trend analyses and assess risks to identify audit themes and necessary interventions in government Identify areas for potential value add work and provide inputs to line manager
Stakeholder Engagements
- Maintain an effective relationship with the regularity audit business units
- Assist with the integration of performance audit procedures at regularity audit
- Maintain visibility at regularity audit for effective interaction
- Support the marketing of performance audit products
- Support initiatives of sharing insights, risks and experiences External Stakeholder engagement
- Support initiatives to market performance audit products
Financial Management
- Manage own work
- Monitor own deadlines
- Manage own productivity and recoverability
- Monitor project budgets and ensure that allocated work is completed within the allocated budget
- Account accurately for own expenditure and time
Administrative duties
- Provide input on the planning of audits, budgeting and other organisational reporting needs
- Assist with organisational reporting needs and initiatives supporting the BU goals
Ad-hoc duties (Applicable to All JD’s)
- Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required
Qualifications
- BCom Auditing, CIA (part qualified), Internal Audit, Management Accounting
Professional registration
- Registration with a professional body is a requirement (where applicable)
Experience
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Product Management: Pro Active reviews and audit quality support
- Keep abreast of changes in audit Quality Management (QM) related audit standards and ensure AGSA compliance at audit engagement level.
- Assist in development and implementation of audit Quality Support policies and procedures in the operations of the AGSA and ensure compliance with the relevant audit standards.
- Co-ordinate and implement pro-active reviews that actively respond to audit quality risks and ensure quality on AGSA audits before issuance of audit reports. This can be done on a number of AGSA high profile and significant risk engagements
- Participate in any other pro-active strategic initiatives to drive the improvement in audit quality before the issuance of audit reports in terms of the AGSA strategy.
- Analyse transversal Quality Support (QS) findings for each audit cycle and communicate/consult with the audit, and support business units to facilitate corrective action. (Conduct awareness sessions to the different audit business units.)
- Implement and monitor remedial actions in line with ISQM 1
- The audit quality reviewer will also be expected to assist the Quality Management business unit (BU) in performing monitoring of QM complience in accordance with the monitoring requirements of the International Standards of Quality Management (ISQM) and specific requirements as determined by the AGSA. These reviews will be performed at the discretion of the BU Leader.
Stakeholder Management
- Provide QM related technical advice and guidance to top management and auditors in respect of engagement performance and associated processes.
- Continuously engage with various audit stakeholders and provide the necessary support.
- Manage own performance.
- Participate and/or take lead in the BU’s transformation, culture, diversity and employment equity initiatives.
- Provide support to the Senior Manager with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks.
Ad-hoc duties
- Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the job description as and when required
The successful candidate should possess the following:
CA (SA) ;
- Six years’ post-qualification experience (with 3 years at manager role);
- Two years Inspections/ QC reviews experience advantageous;
- Public sector audit experience advantageous;
- Excellent technical knowledge and experience in auditing and financial reporting standards;
- Above average performance and behavioral record.
- Detailed knowledge and experience of statutory requirements and standards of the accounting and auditing discipline (e.g. International Standards on Auditing)
- Ability to project manage and execute projects
- Critical thinking and risk awareness.
- Effective problem solving ability.
- Conflict tolerance.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Discreet handling of confidential and contentious information
- Exercising authority and displaying professionalism, especially in strenuous situations.
- Ability to handle conflict situations.
- Proactive and works well under pressure.
- Able to deal with various tasks at once and meet deadlines.
- Able to deal effectively with individuals at all levels within the AGSA.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to respond and adapt to changes quickly
Practical experience in Audit Quality reviews will be an added advantage.
- ISQM 1 experience would be an added advantage
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Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Function
- Contributes to the achievement of the BU balanced score card initiatives.
- Contributes to the preparation of AGSA accountability reports.
- Contributes to the compilation of management information on commercial legal activities and assists with analysis on trends in performance.
Product Management
- Assists in the provision of authoritative commercial legal advice and management of litigation to contribute to the financial viability of the AGSA through:
Contract management
- Analyses internal instructions and consult stakeholders.
- Drafts and reviews MoAs and addenda thereto.
- Advises stakeholder on any potential risk to be considered;
- Advises stakeholder on negotiations with service providers.
- Advises stakeholders on delegations with regards to signing authority.
- Conducts research on developments in contractual law and inform the organisation of the impact thereof.
Environmental scanning
- Actively scans the legal environment for matters of interest to the AGSA.
- Conducts local and international research to identify best practice.
Review of internal policies and procedures
- Reviews and comments on internal policies and procedures
Legal advice and opinions
- Critically analyses instructions for legal opinion.
- Consults with stakeholders on instruction.
- Conducts research and draft memoranda setting out opinion.
Litigation on commercial matters
- Assists with the analysing court papers received.
- Conducts research on regulatory, policy and precedents related to the court case.
- Drafts advisory memorandum to leadership on cases.
- Instructs attorney to defend the interest of the AGSA.
- Attends court, when necessary.
Debt Collection
- Analyses and reviews monthly reports received from law firms.
- Develops monthly debt collection reports.
- Drafts Particulars of Claims and instructs panel firms to issue summons.
- Assists with managing debtor litigation.
- Assists, monitors and coordinates communication with all stakeholders.
Stakeholder Management
- Assists with establishing, building and maintaining collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
- Assists in building and maintaining positive and value-adding relationships with relevant external stakeholders.
- Co-ordinates stakeholder engagements/meetings for the management team and ensure proper record keeping.
- Scans the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
- Proactively interacts with internal stakeholders to determine their needs and delivers on them accordingly.
- Works in collaboration with colleagues in the centre to ensure timeous delivery of the work.
People Management
- Manages own performance to drive productivity.
- Participates in the business unit transformation/culture plans.
- Provides support to the management team with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks.
Financial management and operational management
- Contributes to the compilation of centre budget and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
- Ensures compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
- Manages supply chain processes within scope of work.
Other responsibilities (Applicable to All JD’s)
- Performs and/or manages other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required
Skills, Experience & Education
- LLB
- Admitted as attorney or advocate of the High Court of South Africa
- Added Advantage
- Post graduate qualification in commercial law
Experience
- 3 years post admission work experience in commercial legal environment
- Experience in commercial constitutional and administrative law litigation
- The knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory requirements i.e. to monitor, evaluate, analyse and interpret statutory requirements and compliance
- ICT law and added advantage
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Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Function
- Contributes to the achievement of the BU balanced score card initiatives.
- Contributes to the preparation of AGSA accountability reports.
- Contributes to the compilation of management information on corporate law and litigation services and assist with analysis on trends in performance.
Product Management
- Assists in the provision of authoritative corporate law and litigation legal advice through:
Resolution of legal disputes on audits and material irregularity processes
- Consults with stakeholder upon receipt of request for assistance.
- Assists with conducting research on the subject matter of the audit and material irregularity process dispute.
- Assists with technical audit support, when required.
- Drafts replies for review by the manager.
Litigation on audits and material irregularities
- Assists with the analysing court papers received.
- Conducts research on regulatory, policy and precedents related to the court case.
- Drafts advisory memorandum to leadership on cases.
- Instructs attorney to defend the interest of the AGSA.
- Assists with ensuring that pleadings drafted by counsel is legally and factually correct.
- Ensures that pleadings are timeously submitted.
- Attends court, when necessary.
- Supports BU efforts to contain legal costs.
- Legal assessments in respect of complaints and ethical breaches
- Assists with reviewing draft replies in response to complaints received.
- Conducts research on subject matter of complaints and ethical breaches.
Environmental scanning
- Actively scans the legal environment for matters of interest related to corporate law and impact on the AGSA.
- Conducts local and international research to identify best practice.
- Developing and drafting enabling law and regulations
- Assists with review of enabling law and regulation
Legal advice and opinions
- Critically analyses instructions for legal opinion on corporate law and litigation.
- Consults with stakeholders on instruction.
- Conducts research and draft memoranda setting out opinion.
Stakeholder Management
- Assists with establishing, building and maintaining collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
- Assists in building and maintaining positive and value-adding relationships with relevant external stakeholders.
- Co-ordinates stakeholder engagements/meetings for the management team and ensure proper record keeping.
- Scans the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
- Proactively interacts with internal stakeholders to determine their needs and delivers on them accordingly.
- Works in collaboration with colleagues in the centre to ensure timeous delivery of the work.
People Management
- Manages own performance to drive productivity.
- Participates in the business unit transformation/culture plans.
- Provides support to the management team with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks.
Financial management and operational management
- Contributes to the compilation of centre budget and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
- Ensures compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
- Manages supply chain processes within scope of work.
Other responsibilities (Applicable to All JD’s)
- Performs and/or manages other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required.
Skills, Experience & Education
- LLB
- Admitted as attorney or advocate of the High Court of South Africa
- Added Advantage
- Post graduate qualification in commercial law
Experience
- 3 years post admission work experience in commercial legal environment
- Experience in commercial constitutional and administrative law litigation
- The knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory requirements i.e. to monitor, evaluate, analyse and interpret statutory requirements and compliance
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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.
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