Head, Internal Audit at Stanbic Bank

Key Deliverables:

Strategy

• Contribute to the development and implementation of GIA's strategy and operating model by applying insights from the SBG & Country strategy and operating model, business unit strategy and operating model, products, services, client-base and competitive environment, industry and wider developments, regulatory environment, business developments and changes, operations, risk management practices and global assurance practices.
• Contribute to the development of clear and measurable country GIA objectives. Implement the objectives across the team and individual team members and track individual and team performance.
• Assess, determine, develop and implement the capabilities required for the country audit team to achieve its objectives.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with senior management across business, functional and risk management areas to enable GIA's strategy and achievement of objectives.
• Attend and take an active role in contributing to, and reporting for the subsidiary Board Audit committees and Regulatory/Industry committees, Regional Leadership Council, Africa Regions Audit & Risk Committee. Partner relevant stakeholders across the audit portfolio to share and leverage risk management practices, tools and capabilities, and drive an aligned and integrated approach to assurance and risk management.
• Assess and influence risk culture across the country , through stakeholder engagement, contribution to governance forums, including the audit committee, and holding relevant stakeholders to account to drive the right risk culture.

Client

• Assess, identify and report on practices in the audit portfolio which negatively impact client experience and raise recommendations to improve client experience.

Licence to Operate

• Understand and manage adherence to legislative and regulatory requirements in the country for the audit portfolio, incorporating all relevant jurisdictional requirements.
• Understand and manage adherence across the audit team to applicable internal policies, processes and procedures.
• Contribute to the development of and manage adherence to GIA methodology, policies and processes. Monitor developments in regulatory requirements, professional practices and industry standards to ensure requirements, practices and standards are addressed. Ensure the methodology, practices and processes address GIA's mandate and enable highly effective outcomes and efficient practices.

Risk, Regulatory, Prudential & Compliance

• Manage the development and maintenance of a risk assessment on all areas of risk origination and risk management within the audit portfolio, covering all the risk types to inform audit planning and reporting.
• Lead and manage the development and maintenance of a risk-based, resourced, and relevant assurance plan for the audit portfolio. Communicate to relevant audit portfolio stakeholders and governance committees, obtain approval from relevant legal entity committees, and feed into the GIA assurance plan for Audit Committee approval.
• Lead and enable the development of a risk based audit project scope. Drive the process to ensure all relevant GIA technical and experienced input is obtained. Contribute through strategic insights and approve the scope, and obtain other required GIA approvals. Enable the communication of the scope to auditees for the area under review.
• Enable the completion of audit fieldwork. Contribute with strategic and portfolio wide insights and drive accurate, risk-based, audit outcomes which lead to effective, efficient, sustainable and client centric management of risk. Lead discussion of potential outcomes with relevant senior portfolio stakeholders.
• Enable the completion of audit project reporting. Contribute with strategic and portfolio wide insights and drive accurate, risk-based, audit outcomes which lead to effective, efficient, sustainable and client centric management of risk.
• Engage all relevant GIA specialists to obtain input and agreement of the audit report. Review and approve the audit report and communicate and obtain required review and approvals within GIA. Lead discussion of the audit outcomes with relevant senior portfolio stakeholders.
• Enable and drive audit project closure within agreed timelines. Review and approve audit closure in accordance with GIA methodology.
• Enable and manage audit finding management for the portfolio. Monitor and analyze finding status data and report data and insights to relevant portfolio stakeholders and governance committees. Approve or reject finding closures and assess extension requests for approval or rejection.
• Report into portfolio governance committees providing collective audit outcomes and opinions, audit metrics, risk assessments, risk themes, risk insights and risk foresights on the portfolio. Engage across GIA to draw insights from other areas impacting the portfolio.

Technology & Architecture

• Contribute to GIA's technology strategy and implementation. Apply insights on practical audit needs, and from leading technology developments in wider fields, in financial services, within SBG and in risk and assurance practices.

Financial Management

• Drive and enable productive use of all resources. Manage projects and resources effectively delivering projects within approved resource hours and timelines.

People

• Determine and Implement the people plan for the country to attract, retain, develop, manage and lead people capable of delivering GIA's objectives. Monitor the effectiveness of the plan and provide regular feedback to inform further development and improvements to the plan.
• Identify and develop areas for personal growth, considering skill, behavioural and leadership development, through interventions, on-the-job learning or coaching.
• Define and review workforce plans aligned to the organisational structure for the Region to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met. Contribute to developing strategic initiatives to achieve future staffing requirements to enable cross-border support in line with GIA strategy.
• Review key people metrics such as attrition, vacancy rates, reasons for leaving, absence rates, grievances etc. and define strategies to improve the working environment.

Data

• Contribute to the development of GIA's data strategy. Implement the strategy across the portfolio.
• Drive training and awareness on the use of data and implement use cases across the portfolio to enable automated assurance.
• Drive and manage compliance with GIA data management standards across the portfolio, incorporating data security and data integrity controls.
• Drive and manage the effective use of GIA data for reporting to progressively develop GIA's impact on the risk and control environment.

Qualifications & Experience

Type of Qualification

• Under Graduate Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Audit

Regulatory qualifications

• Where country Regulation applies e.g. CPA (K), CISA

Preferred Qualifications

Type of Qualification

• Post Graduate Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Audit

Experience

• More that 10 years of proven experience in project/programme management, and leading multiple projects across the organization. Experience in building partnerships and engaging with multiple stakeholders at senior levels across the ecosystem. Experience in understanding IT controls and analysing complex sets of data to interpret, visualize and identify trends.
• Experience in leading large teams; Change management experience is an added advantage.
• A total number of years’ experience: minimum 12 years in managerial or leadership role (at least 5 of these at Executive leadership) is required.