REQUISTION DETAILS

REQ ID 147396 Thembi Mtshali

Location: Johannesburg

Closing Date: 1 September 2026

Job Family

Governance And Compliance

Career Stream

Internal Audit

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

This is a senior leadership role within Nedbank Group Internal Audit (GIA), responsible for providing portfolio leadership, governance oversight, and delivery management across the Nedbank Africa Regions (NAR) audit portfolio. The role is accountable for ensuring the effective execution of the audit plan through robust portfolio oversight, stakeholder engagement, audit quality management, and operational coordination.
The successful candidate will drive execution excellence across the NAR audit portfolio by maintaining visibility over audit delivery, quality assurance activities, stakeholder commitments, resource utilisation, and portfolio performance. The role will serve as a key liaison between audit teams, business stakeholders, and GIA leadership, ensuring that assurance commitments are delivered effectively, governance standards are consistently applied, and emerging risks, issues, and dependencies are proactively managed.
The Senior Audit Manager will contribute to the strategic development of the NAR portfolio through effective planning, reporting, continuous improvement, and stakeholder engagement, while supporting GIA's ambition to deliver high-quality, impactful and data-driven assurance.

Job Responsibilities

Portfolio leadership and delivery oversight
• Provide ongoing oversight of the NAR audit portfolio to ensure audit engagements are delivered in line with approved plans, timelines, quality standards, and stakeholder commitments.
• Monitor portfolio performance, delivery progress, dependencies, risks and emerging issues, ensuring timely escalation and resolution where required.
• Support audit planning, scheduling and resource allocation activities to optimise portfolio delivery and capacity management.
• Monitor portfolio budgets and audit delivery metrics.
Audit quality and assurance management
• Review and challenge audit outputs, observations, reporting deliverables and assurance conclusions to ensure quality, consistency and impact.
• Maintain oversight of quality assurance activities and ensure review findings are addressed effectively and timeously.
• Promote consistent application of audit methodology, governance standards and reporting requirements across the NAR portfolio.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learnt, stakeholder feedback and portfolio-wide quality enhancement initiatives.
Stakeholder engagement and relationship management
• Build and maintain effective relationships with executive management, business leaders, risk functions and stakeholders across the NAR portfolio.
• Facilitate engagement between audit teams and stakeholders to support effective audit execution and issue resolution.
• Support stakeholder understanding of audit methodology, governance requirements and issue management processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor and coordination point for audit-related portfolio activities and governance requirements.

Job Responsibilities Continue

Portfolio governance, reporting and management information
• Lead the preparation and consolidation of portfolio reporting for GIA leadership, executive management and governance committees.
• Ensure portfolio management information is accurate, complete and aligned to reporting requirements.
• Maintain oversight of audit management system data quality and portfolio reporting integrity.
• Provide meaningful insights on audit progress, delivery performance, issue remediation trends and emerging risks.
Issue management and portfolio coordination
• Oversee tracking and validation of audit findings and remediation actions across the NAR portfolio.
• Monitor progress towards issue closure and support escalation of significant overdue or high-risk matters.
• Coordinate portfolio governance forums, operational reviews and stakeholder reporting activities.
• Facilitate collaboration across audit teams to ensure consistency of execution and governance practices.
Strategic leadership and continuous improvement
• Support implementation of GIA's strategic objectives across the NAR portfolio.
• Contribute insights on emerging risks, assurance themes and portfolio priorities to inform audit planning and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop audit managers and teams to strengthen leadership capability and delivery effectiveness.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
• Relevant bachelor’s degree/ advanced diplomas
• Postgraduate qualification preferable
Preferred Qualification and Certification
• Relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification.
• Postgraduate qualification preferred (e.g. Honours degree or equivalent).
• Professional qualification or designation such as Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or other relevant audit, risk, governance, finance or banking-related qualification.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CIA, CISA, FRM, PRM, CIPRA, or similar internationally recognised certifications will be advantageous.

Minimum Experience Level

Minimum 7 years business experience in the financial services industry, specifically in a banking environment, with assurance/ risk management experience, of which 3 years must include people management experience..

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Risk management process and frameworks
• Strategic planning
• Accounting standards
• Change management
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Relevant regulatory knowledge

Behavioural Competencies