Auditor General Jobs

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Graduate Recruitment Consultant x2

Requirement Overview

Responsible for identifying and bringing talented graduates into the AGSA.

Roles & Responsibilities

University Project

Identify and develop a database of the relevant tertiary institutions to visit countrywide.
Develop a universities marketing strategy
Establish, build and maintain working relationships with University Heads of Accounting and Career Offices in order to visit their campuses and recruit their students
Ensure sufficient marketing stock for visits
Plan, co-ordinate, travel to and conduct University visits, interacting with under-graduate and post-graduate Accounting students
Organise local/regional involvement/presence at all University visits
Organise BU involvement and participation on university visits, where necessary
Assisting with organising and conducting interviews on smaller and/or remote campuses
Identify possible advertising and sponsorship of academic awards opportunities
Report on all visits
Recruitment process

Working knowledge ofAGSA in the public sector context, i.e. who our client is and what AGSA require in terms of trainee accountants
Sourcing of CV’s
Short listing of candidates
Interviewing of candidates
Ensure that contracts are issued
Monitor the EE targets for TA’s
Relationship management

Establish, build and maintain working relationships with relevant University Heads of Accounting and Career Centres
Establish, build and maintain working relationships with relevant AGSA contact persons, e.g. Training Officers, Communications Business Unit, ICT etc.)
Initiatives

Guide Business Units on all grad initiatives (Additional visits to Universities)
Collaborate with Business units to manage programmes run for students (Audit experience programme)
Manage future candidates and maintain pipeline

Skills, Experience & Education

Formal Education:

Minimum requirement: HR related/ BCom Diploma

Preferred: HR related/ BCom Degree.

Knowledge:

Basic excel skills
Presentation skills
General administrative skills
Procurement processes
Understanding of the CA(SA) qualification path.
Experience

At least two years’ experience in the recruitment environment, specifically relating to graduates.
Exposure to in branding/ marketing initiatives.
Project management experience specifically relating to the learnership scheme.

Closing Statement

Closing date: 13 May 2025

The AGSA is not responsible for the verification of data provided and shall not be liable for any errors, factual, transcription or otherwise, contained in the information posted. Therefore, ensure that your online application and CV is correct, accurate and up to date. To successfully upload documents on the career site, ensure that the document name does not contain any special characters. This appointment is subject to the preferred candidate obtaining the necessary security clearance, reference checking and competency assessment. We embrace and commit in achieving employment equity within the organisation. Auditor General welcomes applications from all persons with disabilities.

Strategic Project Lead: Business Change and Value office

Requirement Overview

The purpose of the role is to set the standard of excellence across strategic projects and programmes. The role ensures strategic oversight, execution, prioritisation and institutionalisation of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA value chain. The role is also responsible for ensuring the alignment and effective execution of strategic project portfolio management accountabilities, to ensure benefits realisation within the AGSA. The role prioritises strategic initiatives and advises/ recommends on which strategic initiatives should be executed.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

Contribute to the formulation and drive the implementation of the AGSA’s long term strategy in the Business Change and Value office.
Prioritise strategic initiatives across the AGSA.
Drive institutionalisation of strategic projects across the AGSA.
Drive efforts to institutionalise strategic programmes within AGSA, ensuring ownership and accountability across business units and stakeholders.
Lead the realisation of benefits of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA value chain.
Influence EXCO structures and interface with PPIC/other relevant committees.

Product Management

Ensure the integration and alignment of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA.
Optimize the execution of projects and programmes to ensure benefits realisation across the programme and projects.
Oversee the Governance, Risk and Compliance process for Programmes and Projects.
Monitor and evaluate benefits realisation across the strategic projects and programmes.
Ensure Project Sponsor is accountable for compliance and adherence across the various strategic projects and programmes.
Manage the optimization of processes, resource allocation across strategic projects and programmes.
Act as the custodian of strategic programme and project optimisation.
Influence resource allocation based on impact, benefits realisation, and enforcement.
Drive the institutionalization and ownership of strategic programmes in the various stakeholder groupings.
Utilise data to create insights that inform business performance against strategic projects and programmes.
Ensure benefits realization projects and programmes across the value chain.
Ensure effective governance, risk, compliance and leadership ownership through the various project and programme stage gates.
Ensure adherence to the Business Change and Value office framework.
Resolve Conflicts and escalate to PPIC and / or other relevant stakeholders.
Act as a mediator to resolve conflicts among key decision-makers within the organisation and escalate unresolved issues to the PPIC and / or other relevant stakeholders for resolution.

Stakeholder Management

Drive visibility through effective internal and external stakeholder engagements.
Implement the stakeholder engagement plan in line with the AGSA stakeholder engagement framework.
Direct stakeholders through stage gates to deliver on the benefits realisation mandate of strategic projects and programmes.
Influence EXCO structures, interfacing with the PPIC, and making recommendations for go or no-go decisions based on the Business Change and Value office framework and standards for excellence.
Establish strong relationships with executive leadership and effectively interface with the Programme and Project Investment Committee (PPIC) to drive decision-making aligned with Business Change and Value office objectives.
Collaborate closely with People Portfolio to ensure change management on Business Change and Value office capability is embedded and supporting business on change management guidelines on any strategic projects undertaken.
Provide leadership, oversight and support of key projects and programmes.

People Management

Participate and/ or take lead in the business unit transformation/ culture plans.
Provide support to the management team regarding centre management and other people-related tasks.

Financial Management

Assist in managing and reporting on the centre budget in accordance with the approved finance policies.
Contribute in compiling of the centre budget, implement and monitor the budget for the allocated projects.
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.

Skills, Experience & Education

Formal Education

This position requires a minimum NQF Level 8 i.e. Master of Business Administration (MBA) or MBA in Project Management or equivalent.
Experience

Minimum 10+ year’s relevant experience with at least 6 years’ experience operating at a senior management/ executive level in the management of large and complex Digital Transformation, Information Technology and other strategic business-related projects and programs.

Closing Statement

The AGSA is not responsible for the verification of data provided and shall not be liable for any errors, factual, transcription or otherwise, contained in the information posted. Therefore, ensure that your online application and CV is correct, accurate and up to date. To successfully upload documents on the career site, ensure that the document name does not contain any special characters. This appointment is subject to the preferred candidate obtaining the necessary security clearance, reference checking and competency assessment. We embrace and committed in achieving employment equity within the organisation. Auditor General welcomes applications from all persons with disabilities.

Closing date: 29 April 2025

Data Scientist – 12 Months Contract

Requirement Overview

The purpose of this role is to lead and support the design and delivery of data analytics/engineering and data science solutions using statistical analysis, machine learning, and data modelling to drive business value by providing insights and recommendations based on data analysis. The incumbent will work closely with key role players within the digital transformation unit to ensure alignment of processes and will further be responsible for investigating and finding patterns and relationships that statistically collate and drive business productivity and efficiency. This role will report to the Data Scientist Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

Contributes to the strategy, vision, and governance of the business intelligence capability.

Support the long-term strategy-level decisions using customer science techniques.

Support the implementation of the centre Balance Score Card (BSC) project and initiatives.

Product Management

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging successful initiatives, findings, and analytics techniques to benefit stakeholder decision-making.

Using machine learning algorithms and techniques to build predictive models and make data-driven decisions.

Collaborate with the senior data scientist and lead data scientist to build data pipelines using workflow orchestration tools.

Schedule extracts and collaborate with senior scientist to draw data from APIs for analysis.

Implement and train machine learning (ML), predictive analytics, data mining and artificial intelligence (AI) models to perform predictions and forecast behaviour and transactions, via the use of data, to enable the business to be proactive in decision making.

Undertake the processing of structured and unstructured data to utilise in data science activities.

Support the data analysis of large information to discover trends and patterns and provide feedback to the business.

Highlight potential value in data science and articulate recommendations to best deliver business goals.

Provide support in the implementation of configurable analytical models within the department.

Support business functions through feasibility analysis and modelling, root cause analysis, decision support modelling, supply chain design modelling and analysis.

Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.

Provide support to senior data scientist and lead data scientist to ensure the most optimised technical process is implemented across the business.

Use statistical software to analyse, identify and assess data attributes to develop recommendations.

Consolidate and analyse a variety of data in various formats across all business areas and propose mechanisms to make the business more efficient.

Process, cleanse and assess the effectiveness of new data sources and data-gathering techniques to enhance analytics and business intelligence.

Support in the delivery of data science and related projects on time, with the desired functionality, at the defined quality level in a sustainable way.

Implementation of the Hackathon events

Research, benchmark, design, implement and validate algorithms/models to analyse diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes and provide recommendations to senior data scientist and lead data scientist.

Identify, review, and promote creative ideas and approaches to enhance the continuous improvement department.

Ensure optimal utilisation of technology solutions, keeping pace with innovations in data science capabilities.

Conduct continued research in developing best in class statistical and machine learning models.

Monitor, measure, support, and report on analytical results to ensure appropriate business recommendations and insights.

Prepare statistics, dashboards, and information for management to derive business decisions.

Stakeholder Management

Establish, build, and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.

Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.

Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.

Proactively interact with stakeholders to determine their needs and deliver on them accordingly.

Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers to continuously improve service delivery.

Work in collaboration with senior data scientist and lead data scientist, business intelligence and data governance to ensure timeous delivery of the work.

Establish and maintain relations with recognized professional bodies within their own professional sphere.

Manage service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.

Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.Participate and / or take lead in the business unit transformation and culture plans.

Review the work of peers assisting in the execution of work.

Create development plans with staff to ensure alignment to latest technology trends.

Provide support to the management team with regard to centre management and other people-related tasks.

Financial management and Operational Management

Contribute to the compilation of centre budget, and manage project expenditure related to functional area.

Ensure compliance with 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.

Skills, Experience & Education

Formal Education

Minimum Bachelor’s degree in quantitative management (decision sciences) or Computer Science/Statistics/Applied Statistics/Applied Mathematics

Honours will be advantageous

Preferable certifications:

Data science

SQL Server (MCSA: SQL Server)

Microsoft Certification in data, data science or artificial intelligence

Experience/ Requirements

Minimum 8 years of related experience working on data exploration and visualization tools.

Experience with common data science toolkits such as SQL essential R, SQL, and sometimes Java or C++. Python

Machine learning/ Artificial Intelligence and Statistical algorithm development.

Experience in leading hackathons

Experience and exposure to cloud solutions.

Working with large volumes of structured and unstructured data and leveraging them to build artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) and predictive modeling (PM) solutions through end-to-end automated data pipelines.

Experience in developing data mining techniques and models across various algorithm types, understanding use case applicability.

Machine learning operations (MLOps) for AI/ML model deployment and monitoring/enhancements for standalone solutions or as part of a larger product.

Closing Statement

The AGSA is not responsible for the verification of data provided and shall not be liable for any errors, factual, transcription or otherwise, contained in the information posted. Therefore, ensure that your online application and CV is correct, accurate and up to date. To successfully upload documents on the career site, ensure that the document name does not contain any special characters. This appointment is subject to the preferred candidate obtaining the necessary security clearance, reference
checking and competency assessment. We embrace and committed in achieving employment equity within the organisation. Auditor General welcomes applications from all persons with disabilities

Closing date : 30 April 2025

Technical Specialist : Quality Reviewer

Requirement Overview

The purpose of this position is to provide support to the Senior Manager: Technical Audit Support (TAS) responsible for quality support to establish, facilitate, implement, maintain and where necessary improve quality management for all audit, assurance and related services engagements.
The incumbent must ensure AGSA audit, assurance and related engagements adhere to the relevant quality standards, through proactive audit quality reviews (also known as inflight quality reviews) and other relevant audit quality initiatives.
Support the Senior Manager to drive and monitor the implementation of remedial actions from the monitoring results and partake in ISQM initiatives.

Roles & Responsibilities

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

Skills, Experience & Education

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

Closing Statement

These appointments are subject to the preferred candidates obtaining the necessary security clearance, reference checking and competency assessment.

A valid driver’s license is an inherent requirement of the position as travelling duties may be involved.

Correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only.

We embrace employment equity and are committed to achievement of fair and equal representation of our workforce.

Preference will be given to candidates from previously disadvantaged backgrounds.

Auditor General welcomes applications from all persons with disabilities.

Closing Date: 26 April 2025

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