A leading financial services company have a great job opportunity for a Head of Internal Audit to join their team in Johannesburg. They are a dynamic, growing organisation where their employees are empowered to grow their expertise and build their careers.

The Head of Internal Audit in Johannesburg will manage the audit team and leading delivery of the audit plan, you’ll execute the audit strategies as set for Group Internal Audit. This will include supporting bank-wide risk assessments that ensure audit activity is aligned to the assurance needs of a growing bank, and enabling relationships with the senior leadership team. Overall, this job will need you to focus on ensuring audit best practice, building a culture of high performance, developing and optimising your team and championing Internal Audit as an objective, independent and critical business partner

Requirements for this Head of Internal Audit job in Johannesburg:

• Qualified CA(SA)
• At least 3 years’ experience as a Head of Audit
• Experience of leading internal audit teams in a dynamic financial services or banking environment
• In-depth knowledge of audit methodologies
• Data analytics capability
• Ideally experience of auditing risks across retail banking products such as residential and commercial mortgages, asset finance, retail savings and treasury etc.
• Strong leadership capabilities key to optimising the performance of a team and building credibility across the organisation