Internal Auditor

MANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private Higher Education distance provider, offering Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications, has/have the following vacancy/vacancies available:Internal Auditor - (Durban)

Undertake audits by:

• Developing audit scopes and generating audit working documents
• Communicating audits to the relevant process owner/s
• Documenting and evaluating systems and controls to determine their existence, adequacy, effectiveness and continuity to ensure the following:
  • Effectiveness and efficiency of operations
  • Compliance to regulatory requirements and institutional policies and procedures
  • Reliability and integrity of information safeguarding of assets
• Engaging with staff throughout the audit with the view to ensure conformity with applicable policy and procedures in all phases of the audit process
• Providing guidance where such policies and procedures do not exist and with the implementation thereof
• Consolidating results and compiling audit reports
• Developing and discussing findings, recommendations and timelines (or corrective action with responsible person of operations audited and monitor the implementation status of agreed recommendations)
• Establishing audit review dates within a 5-year cycle.

Establish and implement the institutional risk management strategy:

• Develop and implement institutional risk management plan and facilitate cascading of the plan to the departments
• Identifying procedural gaps and risk areas within business processes
• Collaborating with operational and academic staff to establish internal mechanisms by which to mitigate risks and develop policies, procedures, standards and systems surrounding the risks
• Reviewing the effectiveness of the implemented mechanism/internal controls to reduce risks and advise relevant process owner/s of findings
• Monitor implementation of the risk mitigation plan stemming from risk assessments conducted
• Conducting research to determine best practices and benchmark against other institutions to enhance the management of quality processes and at times this may require collecting, analysis and interpreting statistical data.
• Roll out institutional Risk Assessment awareness campaign

Promote quality standards throughout the organisation by:

• Participate in reviewing institutional documents including but not limited to policies, procedures, website content and other materials for stakeholder consumption
• Providing guidance for the development of standard operating procedures for departments
• Conduct surprise audits and observations in departments and meetings

Monitor the implementation of the QAMS by:

• Contribute towards committee activities and implementation of resolutions
• Provide reasonable assurance that correct and current documents are maintained on the QMS
• Provide reasonable assurance the submission of quality documents required from departments
• Monitoring the implementation of planned quality improvement initiatives
• Contribute to the cascading of QAMS to all departments
• Internal Audit & Risk Assessment components of QAMS Ecosystem are blueprinted, with accompanying matrices and forms
• Ensure institutional compliance with POPIA

• Conduct and/or coordinate investigation for non-compliance with and/or violations of the institution's policies and procedures, and other regulations.

• Generate departmental reports at specific annual intervals
• Organise and conduct meetings and presentations, develop appropriate templates for meeting documents, collate information and generate meeting packs and record minutes of the meetings
• Filing of reports with the appropriate annexures
• Develop forms and templates for utilisation within the institution
• Partaking on special projects and committee work

• Preferably Bachelor's degree specialising in auditing

• At least three years of experience directly related to auditing duties and responsibilities in higher education.

• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to analyse and solve problems
• Ability to supervise and train assigned staff
• Ability to successfully communicate policies, and procedures in a manner easily understood by stakeholders
• Knowledge of current changes and developments in the South African Higher Education landscape
• Ability to work effectively with diverse people
• Ability to analyse processes and make recommendations for improvements
• Knowledge of the Institution's and regulatory auditing policies, standards, and procedures