Auditor General Vacancies

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Senior Manager – KZN x 2

Requirement Overview

To effectively manage a portfolio of audits and stakeholders to ensure delivery of valued add audits in compliance with relevant legislation in order to fulfil the mandate of the AGSA to enhance public confidence. To build and maintain a strategic and value-adding partnership with key stakeholders in the audit portfolio and within the AGSA.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic function:

Provide strategic input in developing the BU Balance Scorecard (BSC) and contribute during the review and implementation of the BU BSC
Champion the allocated Strategic objective/s as detailed on the BSC and contribute to the achievement of the other BSC Strategic objectives.
Ensure that centre objectives are aligned and contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the AGSA through the BU BSC
Demonstrates an understanding of all aspects of the allocated audit portfolio environment including risks that may potentially affect the audit process. Initiate/participate in thought leadership initiatives to learn or share knowledge with others.
Audit:

Communication with those charged with governance on a regular basis.
Correspondence with auditees on audit matters including providing guidance, outcomes.
Correspondence and meetings with managers and assistant managers regarding the direction and progress on the audits.
Providing oversight and guidance to managers and Assistant Managers on audit related matters including monitoring of progress.
Ensuring that all risks are addressed for the specific audit engagements:
Appointment of specialist staff and contract in and out resources to ensure that risks are properly addressed.
Engagements with audit teams, which may include providing feedback on strategic engagements impacting the audit, reviewing of work in accordance with AGSA review guidance, finalising audit evaluation and concluding working papers, finalising the audit and management reports, meetings with the team and auditee.
Responsible for managing the centre and audit resources (Staff – CWC and expenses) through meetings and giving direction and supervision to achieve a timely high-quality product and to develop the staff to the correct levels and improve on client relations within the overall business processes captured in the BSC.
Motivation talks and training on audit matters with the team, so as to prepare them for career development and adequate succession planning within the business unit.
Meetings with contracted out partners and perform functions as required by an engagement partner as spelled out in the statements of SAICA and the Auditor-General policies
Perform project management on all projects in centre to ensure that legislated deadlines are met.
Communication with Sec 4(3) auditees.
Stakeholder engagements:

Build strategic and value adding partnerships with key stakeholders in the allocated portfolio including auditees to ensure support during the audit process.
Interact with both external and internal stakeholders (such as Performance Audit, ISA, Investigations etc.) to ensure that relevant resources are assigned to the audit
Liaise with key stakeholders at auditees in the planning and execution of the audit, discuss findings, emerging risks and actions in order to proactively manage these.
Prepare and take responsibility for leading the presentations at SCOPA and other Parliamentary committees including other stakeholder engagements.
HR function:

Implement initiatives for creation of talent pipeline and succession planning
Implement the activities outlined on the BU People Plan to address people management issues
Manage the staff performance evaluation system for the centre; this involves the compiling of IPC and the evaluation of IPC’s and addressing issues of poor performance
Financial management and internal controls:

Responsible for compiling the centre budget
Manage the centre budget to ensure adherence to the required financial performance standards for the BU and organisation
Monitor centre recoverability and GP margins and take corrective actions (if any)
Manage resource to achieve budget income
Responsible for approval of invoices, S & T, follow up with debtors etc.
Ensure compliance with the internal controls in AGSA
Ensure compliance with SCM prescripts in accordance with approved AGSA policies and Management Approval Framework (MAF) for all procurement initiated at centre level
Ad-hoc duties:

Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required and upon request from leadership.

Skills, Experience & Education

Qualification

CA(SA) or RGA or ACCA
Knowledge

Knowledge of the PFMA and MFMA
Accounting and Auditing legislation and standards or principles
Specific knowledge of IFRS/GRAP and Treasury Regulations
Knowledge and implementation of CAATs
Knowledge and experience of SAICA training regulations
Experience

Minimum of 6 years’ experience post qualification with at least 4 years’ experience operating at a manager/middle manager level.
Specific knowledge of IFRS, GRAP , MCS (Modified Cash Standard) and Treasury Regulations
Experience in reporting (General report, interim reports, quartely and annual reports)
Experience in ensuring high quality of audits (i.e. action plans, technical consultations and peer/pre-Issuance reviews, quality reviews)
Experience in high impactful stakeholder engagements (internal and external)
Closing date 27 January 2025

Closing Statement

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.

Product Champion – KwaZulu Natal

Requirement Overview

This purpose of this position is to provide technical support and guidance in the Audit Business Units (ABU) in alignment with the applicable audit standards and legislation. The incumbent will take responsibility to disseminate information and ensure technical capacity building in the application of technical processes in the BU. The incumbent will further act as a Training Officer and first level technical support to the auditors in the delivery of quality and value adding services in line with the strategy of the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA). Where applicable, the incumbent will also perform the role of the training officer for the business unit.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function:

Contributes to the development of the Business Unit (BU) Balance Score Card (BSC) initiatives.
Ensure adequate quality assurance processes in the BU for the achievement of the BSC objectives.
Implement and monitor the BSC initiatives within the BU.
Product Management:

Technical developments:

Provide strategic inputs into the AGSA products and annual scoping decisions for Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).
Provide technical inputs to the technical audit department on all areas of public sector auditing and reporting as and when required.
Participate in the technical development projects and contribute to technical discussions during various forums such as the Product champion and State Owned Entities (SOE) forums.
Obtain and coordinate inputs from ABUs on technical documents to inform inputs to the relevant internal BUs and at technical forums.
Technical support:

Provide sound technical advice and support to the ABU regarding technical queries raised by different centres within the business unit.
Prepare, review and oversee all technical queries/matters to be escalated to the relevant internal BUs as per the AGSA approved consultation processes and procedures.
Lead regular technical discussions and communication within the ABU to ensure a proper understanding of the Public audit manual and related technical guidance issued.
Provide technical support and quality management support in relation to ALL accounting frameworks, meaning GRAP, IFRS,MCS are
Quality standards and methodology:

Lead initiatives to design and improve BU approaches to quality management on all audits thereby improving the quality of the audits for the BU.
Implement systems, peer reviews and processes within ABU to ensure quality audit work including conducting consistency reviews on audit reports as determined by the business unit.
Ensure an effective and efficient pre-issueance review process for purposes of improving the quality of the audits for the BU.
Monitor the improvement in the quality of audits conducted including those conducted on behalf of the AGSA.
Co-ordinate BU submissions for compliance reviews including handling own compliance reviews where applicable.
Collaborate and support audit support BUs and specialized audit BUs in achieving quality and relevant audit products and audit outcomes.
Provide input and support the methodology development within the AGSA.
Guide and support audit teams regarding the identification, processing and reporting of MIs.
Reporting:

Provide comments and inputs on the reporting guide, with emphasis on General Report (GR) blueprint, and GR process.
Ensure basic level of consistency in reporting with a view to easier consolidate information for general report.
Review and provide inputs to the management information system for reporting purposes to ensure the quality of the information captured and clear any findings raised by QC or QM.
Technical training:

Monitor the identification of employee training needs.
Oversee that interventions are put in place to address training and development gaps in collaboration with relevant internal BUs.
Participate, where possible, in the delivery training and evaluation of training material.
Training officer responsibilities:

Support the delivery of highly skilled and qualified workforce to the AGSA and the public sector through the trainee auditor programme inclusive of effective recruitment and retention.
Monitor the trainee auditors scheme, supporting the strategic objectives of the AGSA Trainee Auditor Scheme are achieved ,providing support to the trainees and the trainees academic progress.
Take ownership of the assessment process end to end including the review of ANA, PDS, LOR’s and SR’s to ensure compliance and adherence to SAICA as well as AGSA requirements
Ensure that trainee auditor developments plans are in place and in collaboration with the evaluators and assessors, monitor the progress on the plans.
Ensure that the training office is compliant with SAICA training regulations and complies with AGSA strategic objecitves of maintaining our status of being a good training institution.
Material irregularities:

Oversee the material irregularity process by playing an oversight role on the work performed by the PAA specialist.
Providing technical support to audit teams to accelerate the identification and notification of high impactful material irregularities.
Oversee and schedule BUMIC where potential MIs are tabled, prepare packs for HPMIC and provide support and contribution to BU leadership by monitoring and evaluating the MI process.
Stakeholder Management:

Provide technical support and guidance to internal stakeholders on technical matters in order to ensure alignment with the relevant guidelines and AGSA strategy.
Ensure active participation in various forums such as PC and Training Officer forum.
Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as Trainee Auditor Forum (TAF).
Communicate technical processes and requirements including strategic goal and objectives to internal stakeholders to ensure understanding.
People Management:

Manage team performance to drive productivity.
Contribute to transformation/culture plans.
Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.
Participate in initiatives to attract talent.
Contribute to effective administration of the BU training office.
Cascade Vision achievement/ organisation alignment messages and commitments.
Financial Management and operational Management:

Contribute to the compiling of the BU budget and ensure adherence to the required financial performance standards.
Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures
Ensure compliance with supply chain processes.
Other Responsibilities:

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 qualification of CA (SA)
Registered with SAICA as an assessor/able to register within 3 months of appointment
Registered with IRBA as Registered Auditor/able to register within 3 months of appointment
Experience:

Minimum 7 years post qualification experience with at least 4 years’ experience operating at a manager level
Added advantage: Incumbent currently occupying Technical Manager / Audit SM role.
Must have passed or obtained a satisfactory rating on the last quality management cycle.
Closing Date: 24 January 2025

Closing Statement

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.

Service Desk Support Agent

Requirement Overview

Strategic Function:

Provide support as single point of contact for service support services as part of the incident management process.
Coordinate the incident, service request and problem management processes.

Product Management:

User query/issue handling – Ensuring user queries or issues are captured, validated, and triaged for further processing.

Communicating with users – Ensuring that various types of information are communicated to users through the appropriate channel(s).

Ensuring improvement of end user handing queries, telephone etiquette, through analysis, reviews, and reporting, as well as through competence building, knowledge sharing and other organisational changes.

Incident Management

Responsible for incidents escalations, follow ups including weekly and monthly reporting and conducting of meetings.

Capture the accurate and correct description of the incident, to ensure that the appropriate information is forwarded to the support teams.

Logging of faults to vendors, to ensure that the vendors take the appropriate action according to the SLA.

Communicate service outages to all the relevant stakeholders whenever there’s medium and high priority incidents.

Recording of solution for the Service Desk Knowledge base.

Follow-up on the ICT challenges survey.

Respond to requests, escalations and follow-ups sent via emails from the users.

Application support on Oracle PeopleSoft (CRM, HR and Finance) and other ICT applications

Adhere to AGSA policies, procedures and standards, to ensure compliance and consistency in applications of guidelines across the organisation.

Review and update process documents periodically.

Attend to all audit reviews during the audit process.

Configuration and setup for service management tool.

Compile incident management reports in case of medium impact cases.

Problem management

Compile root cause analysis.

Conduct problem management meetings.

Review and updating of process documents periodically.

Attend to all audit reviews during the audit

Responsible for system administration including PeopleSoft security /admin(super user), network administration on active directory (access groups(ssl), mailing groups, password related, and profile modification(titles)).

Quality Assurance

Details of call resolution – resolutions that can be usable in future and contribute towards a usable Knowledge base.

Review of logged cases and advise on correction where required.

Make sure that cases are on the right status, (inform the stakeholder responsible to rectify the mistake)

Monitor the case management to check if calls are attended to and escalate calls to managers where necessary.

Training contribution

Give first-hand knowledge sharing/ training to the users on applications used by AGSA.

Provide technical input for training and development of computer end-user skills.

Drafting of training manuals for the user on any new application introduced to the organisation.

Trend analysis

Compile monthly reports and do trend analysis to identify areas that need urgent attention.

Support project team members with systems knowledge and perform user acceptance testing whenever required

Stakeholder Management:

Maintain effective relations with both internal and external stakeholders.

Build collaborative relationships with internal and relevant stakeholders.

Support initiatives of sharing insights, risks and experiences.

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 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.

Requirement Overview

The purpose of this role is to provide support for all Service Desk calls for AGSA users. The Service Desk is the single point of contact between the user and all Service Support Business units.

This position reports to the Problem, Incident & Service Desk Specialist.

Skills, Experience & Education

Formal Education:

This position requires a minimum qualification of a National Diploma (NQF level 6 or higher) in ICT, Communication or equivalent.

Experience:

Minimum 3 years’ experience in IT Service Management/ Call centre or related field.
Added advantage: Service Desk ITIL process experience or certification.

Closing Statement

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 organization. Auditor General welcomes applications from all persons with disabilities.

Closing Date: 23 January 2025

Stakeholder Liaison Manager (SLM) Western Cape

Requirement Overview

The Stakeholder Liaison Manager supports audit business units in managing relationship with all their stakeholders. The Stakeholder Liaison Manager position is a dedicated liaison for the Western Cape Business Unit and will be based in Cape Town.

The Western Cape business unit seeks the Stakeholder Liaison Manager to establish and maintain strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders, be the primary port for stakeholder correspondence and provide updates to the Western Cape business unit leadership with key information that can empower them in their interaction with the stakeholders. In addition, the aim is to ensure quality of stakeholder engagements with the intention of upholding the AGSA’s reputation promise of enhancing public confidence.

Roles & Responsibilities

Environmental scanning

Coordinate the implementation of the Western Cape Province’s environmental scanning framework to guide the Business Unit in its interaction with stakeholders
Conduct research on the key external stakeholders to understand their unique needs and challenges in order to develop a relevant stakeholder engagement strategy
Advise the Business Unit and other relevant AGSA structures of any significant stakeholder developments or issues identified in the context of the stakeholder environment to feed through to Head of Portfolio level where necessary
Review and monitoring of key stakeholder activities, processes and any external factors to keep up to date with any developments impacting on stakeholder management
Monitor and alert Western Cape Business Unit leaderships of threats and opportunities from Provincial, national, or international trends in legislative, political, social, and economic factors that may impact on the AGSA’s mandate or/and the Business Unit
Policy and procedure implementation and monitoring
Promoting and coordinating the implementation and compliance of AGSA stakeholder interaction policies & procedures within the Western Cape Business Unit
Update the policies and procedures in relation to any developments around stakeholder interactions
Ensure alignment of stakeholder management policies and procedures with other AGSA policies
Stakeholder liaison and coordination

Managing a team and upskilling staff within th Business Unit to be able to meet the stakeholder liaison objective.
Provide feedback on the challenges experienced in implementing stakeholder management strategy and policies to the Western Cape Leadership and ICBU where applicable
Lead and provide direction to the Stakeholder Liaison Team and breed succession to meet the SLM objectives
Liaison with key identified external stakeholders to provide the Western Cape Business Unit with timely, accurate and complete information about stakeholder needs, requests and activities
Provide support to the Western Cape Business Unit leadership regarding interaction with those charged with governance and oversight in all three spheres of government in relation to optimal utilisation of AGSA reports (including feedback on the user-friendliness of AGSA reports)
Coordinating Western Cape Business Unit stakeholder interaction and key events, including liaison with respect to and reporting on stakeholder interactions
Build and maintain relationships with key role players to ensure effective stakeholder management
Engage with all relevant internal stakeholders to identify gaps or opportunities in terms of stakeholder engagement framework .
Draft and prepare written correspondence and presentations to stakeholders
Assistance with general report or any other audit report

Collect relevant stakeholder information required for the compilation of the general report.
Tracking of the utilisation of all AGSA reports by oversight mechanisms (e.g., committees of legislatures and municipal councils)
Cooperation with and support to other business units in relation to information required for other AGSA general / special reports
Financial management

Provide input on Western Cape Business Unit budget re stakeholder management activities
Monitor expenditure against budget based on approved BU business plan
Management Information System analysis

Gather, analyse and synthesise project information captured on MIS and make relevant recommendations on behalf of the Western Cape Business Unit
Update the MIS with relevant information after interaction with own key stakeholders
Ad hoc duties

Perform any other duties as required by the Western Cape Business Unit .
Travelling with the Western Cape Business Unit Leadership
Project management/event planning

Skills, Experience & Education

Qualification:

An appropriate bachelor’s degree is essential
Degree in Political Sciences, International Relations, Public Admin or professional accounting degree (CA (SA) or RGA or ACCA) would be advantageous.
Experience:

Minimum of four years’ experience in stakeholder liaison and client management
Knowledge of relevant public related legislation; ability to analyse the political and legislative landscape
Experience in Microsoft Office will be critical
Closing date: 17 January 2025

Closing Statement

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.

Vmware, Cloud & Server Engneer

Requirement Overview

The purpose of the position is to provide support to the VMware, Cloud and Server Engineer function in ensuring the availability and day-to-day operation, scheduling and technical support of all Servers, Virtualised & Cloud platforms with the technical infrastructure systems running these systems in networked (LAN, WAN). The position reports to a Specialist: Data Centre and Platforms

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

Provide inputs into the operational management of ICT infrastructure in line with digital transformation (DTO) strategy to ensure that the system performs according to ICT standards and meet the AGSA business needs
Support the implementation of the business unit balance score card projects and initiatives.
Product Management

Installing, monitoring, and troubleshooting operating systems, software, hardware, and other computer infrastructure.
Design, install, and administer virtualisation (VMware and Hyper-V) products.
Regular support of VMware and windows environment by resolving the escalated tickets for the internal and external customer.
Identify and implement the rectified operational issues.
Optimising network hardware and software to enable VMware integration.
Develop and deploy customised VMware solutions.
Define multiple virtual servers on a single host machine.
Virtualise Windows servers and connecting them to networks and clouds.
Design and implement virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and enabling template management.
Install operating systems and service packs, as well as security patches and bug fixes.
Troubleshooting and resolving VMware environment issues.
Providing technical support and documenting VMware processes.
Keep informed of developments in VMware technologies and products.
Support the production environment and ensuring that adequate testing has taken place before implementing new systems or changes to existing systems.
Investigate production related queries as raised by business or external parties
Ensure that assigned project deliverables, milestones and schedules are adhered to and accomplished.
Ensure that communication channels are established with all clients at a technical level.
Support the UAT and development processes as required
Supporting the technical design process by participating in the analysis of technical requirements.
Provide support by implementing analyses that will identify requirements related to processes & technology.
Participate in execution and documentation of implementations.
Utilising cloud tools to standardise and automate infrastructure deployment and management activities.
Provide support in the development of cloud technology roadmaps, provide technical advice and solutions to address customer requirements.
Perform technical administrative tasks daily to ensure the stability and availability of Office365, troubleshooting issues.
Manage user accounts and user licenses through the Office 365 admin centre in the Microsoft cloud platform or Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
Responsible for the day-to-day availability of Office 365 services like, Microsoft Teams, One Drive for Business, Exchange Online & Active Directory
Responsible to implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure security through secure access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
Assist with the maintenance of the on-premises environment, working closely with server administrators and infrastructure support teams.
Stakeholder Management

Maintain effective relations with both internal and external stakeholders.
Build collaborative relationships with internal and relevant stakeholders.
Support initiatives of sharing insights, risks and experiences.
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 regarding centre management and other people related tasks.
Financial management 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.

Skills, Experience & Education

This position requires a minimum qualification of a National Diploma (NQF level 6) in IT/ Computer Science or related qualification- OR Microsoft Azure Certification (MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure or equivalent) OR VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) or any related certification.

Experience

Minimum 3 years’ experience working as a systems, VMWare, Cloud, networking or infrastructure engineer in relevant fields OR experience with Windows Server

Closing Statement

To successfully upload documents, 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 : 22 January 2025

Senior Administrator – North West (Rustenburg)

Requirement Overview

To provide administrative support to the Business Unit.

Roles & Responsibilities

Debtors Management

Stakeholder interaction at various levels
Maintains telephone and personal contact with staff and clients on receivable matters
Generate and issue invoices and statements
Generate receivables reporting and Management Information System.
Reconcile daily bank deposits
Researches and applies unallocated cash.
Manages client accounts, accounts receivable write-offs and payments.
Operates office equipment including personal computer, copiers, fax machines and 10-key calculator.
Organizes and maintains up to date financial records.
Provides monthly financial and management reports.
Liaise with Legal and Finance business unit stakeholders
Assists in financial management and analysis
Organizes and maintains retention files for required period of time.
Training Office

Arranging induction for trainees in line with SAICA requirements.
Inviting trainees to register contracts on SAICA TCMS.
Checking registration documentation on SAICA TCMS for completeness and accuracy.
Managing SAICA TCMS system for all SAICA trainees.
Manage the training offices’ dashboard on SAICA TCMS
Coordinating SAICA membership fee payments and new applications.
Assisting with arrangements and preparation for SAICA Assessor training.
Scheduling and coordinating all internal training.
Liaising with external training providers for training requirements.
Registering and coordinating all external training.
Record keeping of all external training.
Ensuring trainees and assessors adhere to SAICA TSR/PSR/ANA and LOR/PDS deadlines.
Attending to all the SAICA training office compliance issues.
Assisting trainees with queries relating to SAICA Training Regulations.
Assisting trainees with the discharge process.
Assisting all role players with an understanding of SAICA’s Electronic Assessment Tool.
Taking minutes of all SAICA related meetings.
TA recruitment and logistical arrangements for career day visits
Financial matters

Internal control monitoring – cash advance 30/60 days and over, Unmatched purchase orders, conflict of interest declarations
(People Soft system) Purchase Orders: capture, receipt and voucher for payments.
Investigate financial queries
Drawing of reports for internal controls monitoring
Facilitate drafting of adhoc contracts within the limitations of scope as determined by the line manager
General office administration

Managing and maintaining information for the BSC.
Co-ordinating and monitoring the flow of tasks and assignments between DBUL BE and Senior Managers and managers.
Typing of documents, using MS Office.
Dealing with incoming email, faxes, post and forwarding it to relevant people.
Conduct searches to find needed information, using such sources as the Internet.
Screening telephone calls, enquiries and requests and handling them when appropriate.
Maintaining diary and making appointments
Makes travel and accommodation arrangements.
Set up and maintain paper and electronic filing systems for records, correspondence and other material
Assisting in general queries from staff regarding admin issues, e.g. Timesheets, studies, PeopleSoft functions and leave.
Keep diary for meetings booked in the office.
Management of petty cash and cash availability.
Control and issue refreshments.
Manage the requests for usage of pool vehicles in the centre.Organising and taking minutes at meetings between DBUL and direct reports.
And all other related administrative duties.

Skills, Experience & Education

The successful candidate should have a completed Degree.

Added advantage: SAICA signed-off articles

Other requirements:

Sound stakeholder relations management experience
Exposure to the Legal aspects of debt collection
Proficient MS Office (Word,Excel and Outlook)
Good communication and report writing skills (written and verbal)
Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work efficiently
Ability to work independently and in a team environment
Flexibility to adapt to all situations and work varied hours
Ability to perform at higher level/s in a fast paced ever-changing work environment
Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction
Closing date: 21 January 2025

Closing Statement

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.

Business Intelligence Interns X6

Requirement Overview

The purpose of this role is to assist in the design, development, and implementation of business intelligence (BI) solutions. The role provides support to business stakeholders and BI specialists to gather requirements, design data models, and develop visualizations that provide actionable insights. The role contributes to the creation and optimization of BI tools, to ensure that the AGSA’s decision-making is informed by accurate, timely, and meaningful data.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function

Participate in the implementation of the BSC initiatives within the BU.
Product Management

Collaborate with business users to understand their data and reporting needs.
Analyse and document business requirements for BI solutions.
Assist with design and develop data models that support business reporting and analytics.
Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency in data models.
Assist with Develop and maintain ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into the data warehouse.
Assist with monitoring and optimise ETL performance.
Create interactive and visually appealing reports and dashboards using BI tools (e.g., Power BI).
Assist BI report developers to customise and enhance existing reports to meet evolving business needs.
Work with database BI developers to optimize database performance.
Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business processes and ensure data solutions align with organizational goals.
Assist with provide training and support to end-users on BI tools and solutions.
Assist with documenting data models, ETL processes, and report specifications.
Assist with maintain documentation for future reference and team collaboration.
Keep abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in BI and analytics.

Stakeholder Management

Build strong professional relationships with stakeholders to ensure successful learning / working process.
Liaise with relevant key internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective coordination, communication and coverage of allocated work and internal issues.
Work in collaboration with Data Owners and Stewards to ensure timeous delivery of the work.

People Management

Manage own development and performance as per the generic competency plan, training plan and individual performance contract.
Comply with the necessary training regulations, applicable policies and other training initiatives.
Keep a portfolio of working and learning evidence throughout the process.
Continuous coaching, mentoring, on the job training and assessment from allocated Team Leaders.
Participate in the BUs transformation, culture, diversity and employment equity initiatives.

Financial Management

Monitor and manage own productivity to ensure compliance with project and centre budget.
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 delegated by the Senior Manager not stipulated in the role profile description as and when required.

Skills, Experience & Education

Minimum qualification of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field. Relevant certifications in Data Analyst Associate (Power BI), and Azure Data Fundamentals as an added advantage.

Experience

No experience required, however exposure in the following areas would be an added advantage:

Tools such as Power BI, or other data visualisation platforms.
Data modelling and database design principles.
SQL or similar query languages to extract and manipulate data.

Closing Statement

To successfully upload documents, 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 : 20 January 2025

Maintenance Assistant

Requirement Overview

Provide a sustainable working environment to the AGSA employees by planning, managing, coordinating and executing all Facilities Management related functions initiated by Auditor General of South Africa.

Roles & Responsibilities

Building management (repairs and maintenance)

Carry out repairs and maintenance such as air-conditioning, furniture, doors, walls, ceiling, flooring, taps, ablution facilities, minor plumbing work, light bulb replacement, minor electrical repairs if certified, etc.
Assist with physical move of furniture and other equipment.
Inspect buildings to determine maintenance requirements and create correlating plans.
Develop predictive and preventative maintenance plans and implement them to ensure decrease in repairs and breakdowns.
Choose the right types of tools and equipment to assist in performing repair and maintenance work.
Prioritize necessary repairs and improvements and ensure that sufficient staff is acquired to handle them.
Create work schedules and ensure that they are properly carried out.
Meet clients to assess their needs for maintenance and repairs.
Ascertain that proper work safety initiatives are taken prior to and during each maintenance and repair procedure.
Make recommendations for adjustments in building systems such as electrical, hydraulic and HVAC systems.
Perform replacement and repair work according to the specific requirements of the project.
Estimate costs involved in both maintenance and repair procedures and create and maintain effective liaison with vendors to ensure delivery of equipment and supplies on time.
Take appropriate care of tools and equipment used in maintenance and repair work by performing maintenance and cleaning duties.
Maintain inventories of supplies and equipment and ensure that low inventory levels are communicated to the supervisor with related building maintenance and repairs.
Attending ALL electrical related building matters.
Supervision of contractors during projects and outsourced work.
Assisting with air conditioning services and maintenance when required.
Logging of all building related matters to the contractors for repairs.
Ensure housekeeping and storeroom up keep.
Managing of CRM calls.
Perform tasks assigned through work order request as directed by the seniors.
Assist the facilities team with stock deliveries (to carry boxes and other goods received).

Ensure that all products/services including corporate reports/messages adhere to the relevant quality standards as agreed with the line manager. Reports/messages may include but not limited to:

Requisitions for tools and other items required.
Clear records inventories in own area.
Memos and other correspondence.
Communication to stakeholders.

Compliance with deadlines

Attend to requests timeously or within service levels.
Adhere to all service levels and expectations.
Timeous leave and timesheets completion and approval (including hospitality team when requested).
Ensure quick turnaround time in resolving problems.

Impactful engagements with stakeholders
Ensure high quality, practical and cost effective stakeholder engagements as per centre’s/BU’s
stakeholder engagement plan to ensure the centre delivers excellent service to the stakeholders
(Targeted number of engagements must be pre-defined). Interactions include but not limited to:

Liaise with clients on all levels to determine their needs.
Assess the impact of their requirements.
Communicate to clients and keep them updated of progress.

Financial viability
Execute own deliverables economically, efficiently and effectively through
amongst other things:

Adhere to financial principles.
Adhere to SCM policies and procedures.
Assist in providing information on payments to suppliers and service providers (related to own area).

Personal development
Continuous professional development and skills enhancement (CPD and development needs
as agreed with immediate supervisor).

Adherence to company policies, procedures and financial principles.
Effective response to audits/requested information.
Adherence to regulations OHS, Building and safety codes
Adherence to ethical standards
Record keeping – ability to provide records when required.
Adhere to office hours.

Skills, Experience & Education

Qualifications

Matric
NQF3 in Electrical, Mechanical engineering, Facilities management or equivalent.
Electrical trades test certificate Experience
Minimum of two years’ experience in building maintenance (general repairs, plumbing, air-conditioning, electrical).
OHS training certificate will be an added advantage

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 commit in achieving employment equity within the organisation. Auditor General welcomes applications from all persons with disabilities.
Closing date: 20 January 2025

Specialist: External Marketing x2

Requirement Overview

The purpose of this role is to develop and execute marketing strategies, campaigns and related activities of AGSA across a variety of channels, to help enhance the AGSA brand, its objectives as well as improve employee engagement/ experience. The role plans and executes on a wide variety of marketing campaigns, activities and works closely with internal departments/ business units to deliver on the AGSA reputational promise.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function:

Build a positive brand reputation and increase AGSA brand awareness and reach a variety of stakeholders from government and parliament leaders, business, civil society organisations,universities, students, media and the public.
Design, implement, support and drive the marketing and branding plans in alignment with the overall AGSA brand strategy.
Lead the integrated marketing campaigns from concept to execution by developing and executing comprehensive marketing plans that increase the brand equity of AGSA.
Lead integrated campaigns for graduate recruitment for young professionals and initiatives that are focused on enhancing the employer brand of the AGSA that is focused on talent recruitment and retention of existing talent.
Drive the development and measurement of marketing metrics that enable effective decision making around brand health, share of voice and effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
Manage the end-to-end marketing function (full value chain).
Act as a link between the various AGSA portfolios and the Communications Business Units by proactively managing and preempting requests for internal and external marketing campaigns.
Collaborate with the portfolio teams and business units to align marketing strategies with organizational objectives and targets.
Act as a custodian of the AGSA brand.

Production Management:

Drive go-to market efforts of tailored products and services of AGSA to both internal and external stakeholders.
Work with the creative team in conceptualizing how and when to use marketing materials and capture target audience and brainstorming and working with internal resources to execute new marketing ideas.
Give input to the advertising and digital standards and guidelines for the function, that drives consistency in brand messaging.
Engage with key internal and external stakeholders to identify changing marketing needs and align service offering to the changing needs.
Conduct market research to identify trends and opportunities that can assist in enhancing the AGSA brand.
Implement critical policies relating to marketing channels.
Provide quarterly reports on critical milestones and submit to SM for review.
Take ownership of the management of marketing channels and collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders where required.
Develop, distribute and deploy all marketing content and collateral across relevant channels on behalf of the Communication BU, relevant BU stakeholders and AGSA leadership.
Ensure optimal usage of appropriate traditional and web-based technology/channels relevant to the internal and external audience.
Identify and implement new marketing channels and develop collateral accordingly.
Manage the designs and creative for all marketing channels.
Make inputs into the update of the look and feel of internal communication channels.
Ensure the approved AGSA branding principles are applied to the design layout of all marketing collateral.

Stakeholder Management:

Develop and maintain collaborative and value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders for the execution of marketing plans and campaigns.
Ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs and determine the appropriate approach and content of the campaigns and content in consultation with the relevant stakeholder and line manager.
Manage service providers for the production and execution of deliverables.
Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success to continuously improve the delivery of the marketing channels.
Deliver in accordance with the agreed service level agreements
(SLAs).

People Management:

Manage performance to drive productivity.
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:

Contribute to the 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 JDs)

Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments delegated by the Senior Manager not stipulated in the role profile description as and when required.

Skills, Experience & Education

Formal Education:

This position requires a minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or related
qualifications.

Experience:

Minimum 5 years’ practical experience in developing and managing marketing
campaigns and strategies in both private and public sector.

Closing Statement

Closing date: 17 January 2025

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