This is an exciting opportunity to join one of South Africa’s leading insurance groups, well known for its innovative culture, strong reputation, and people-first approach. The organisation prides itself on creating an environment where employees can thrive, contribute meaningfully, and grow their careers. You’ll be part of a purpose-driven business that values inclusivity, collaboration, and continuous learning while playing a critical role in strengthening digital and cyber resilience at an enterprise level. With a flexible hybrid working model and a focus on making a real impact, this is the perfect platform for a seasoned audit professional to take the next step in their career.
 
Duties:
 

• Leading end-to-end digital and cyber audit and advisory engagements, ensuring timely delivery of quality reports and actionable recommendations.
• Developing deep insights into risks, controls, regulations, and emerging technologies across the enterprise.
• Identifying control gaps and driving process improvements.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on governance, risk, and cyber-related matters.
• Building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, including collaboration with second-line assurance and external audit teams.
• Leading and developing a high-performing audit team through coaching, mentorship, and talent growth.
• Managing budgets effectively while ensuring cost optimisation.

 
Job Experience & Skills Required:
 
 
Qualifications:
 

• Matric ( Grade 12)
• A relevant degree in Audit / IT / Information Systems / Cybersecurity / Risk Management
• (Postgraduate / professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CIA, CA(SA)will be advantageous).

 
Experience:
 

• 7–10 years’ experience in IT / Internal audit, with at least 3–5 years in digital and cyber audit at a managerial level.
• Proven leadership experience in managing audit teams and delivering enterprise-level digital/cyber assurance.
• Insurance / financial services industry exposure highly preferable.

 
Skills & Competencies:
 

• Ability to influence and engage at executive level while driving value-add recommendations.
• Solid knowledge of governance, risk, internal controls, and cyber risk regulations.
• Proven track record of leading audit teams and delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Up-to-date with industry trends, regulatory developments, and emerging technologies

 
If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the organisation’s audit and risk management functions.
 
The Audit Manager: Data Analytics will be required to play a key role in all phases of Internal Audit data analytics engagements and will interact with senior and middle management across the organization. This may range from managing a team of data analytics specialists, conducting fieldwork/scripting, performing research, providing insights and contributing to the overall strategy of Group Internal Audit.
 
Duties:

• Set the internal audit strategy and audit/project plan and oversee the implementation thereof.
• Deliver on the internal audit strategic objectives by developing deeper perspectives and options for how to best serve our clients, solve problems, being proactive about suggesting meaningful improvements, leveraging subject matter expertise and considering broader organisational implications in terms of risk assurance.
• Oversee and execute all required data analytics test procedures and results, by developing scripts, identifying exceptions, generating insights and analysing trends in support of the audit plan.
• Report on and communicate data analytics results to intended stakeholders.
• Submit draft opinions and/or audit reports to senior Internal Audit management for review.
• Participate in, and at times lead, team, department and/or divisional projects, to effectively deliver on strategic goals.
• Remain up to date with latest Big Data developments and leading practices, as well as new regulatory pronouncements.

 
Job Experience & Skills Required:

Qualifications:
 

• Matric (Grade 12)
• BCom Degree in Internal Audit or Accounting
• Honous in Internal Audit or Accounting
• Analytics Certified Data Analyst (ACDA)
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

 
Experience:

• 6 – 10 years related experience, of which 4 years in an audit data analytics role
• Experience in leading and managing teams
• Ability to use ACL, SQL Server Management Studio, Power BI and other data tools.
• Intermediate SQL skills.
• Advanced ACL skills.
• Basic Python programming skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills.

 
Skills & Competencies:

• Experience in stakeholder engagement and conflict management
• Experience in report writing
• Experience in general project management
• Risk based auditing methodologies and IIA standards.
• Risk management and risk management practices.
• Relational databases and database structures.
• Database and analytical scripting.
• Good insurance knowledge, acumen, & leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills & project management skills.
• Good conflict management & stakeholder management skills.

If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.