Team Lead, Branch & Head Office Units Audit – Access Bank

Job Description

There are exciting career opportunities available at Access Bank for self-motivated individuals with outstanding integrity, a good track record of performance, excellent oral and written communication as well as strong interpersonal skills. As part of its growth strategy, the bank is looking for an experienced candidate with suitable technical competencies to take up the following opportunities:

• Team Lead, Branch & Head Office Units Audit (Permanent) Gaborone

Main Purpose
To ensure compliance with agreed processes & standards so as to meet the Bank’s statutory obligations and to ensure that the banks processes and procedures are in line with international standards.

Key Responsibilities
♦ Plan annual activities of the unit segregated into quarterly activities.
♦ Undertake high risk Head Office reviews and other reviews as appropriate, including special audits, value for money audits, fraud investigation etc.
♦ Review and sign off branch/head office audit exercises/ reports undertaken/issued by the staff members of the unit and others as appropriate, ensuring the implementation of agreed recommendations.
♦ Provide Branch & HO input to major internal audit exercises as appropriate.
♦ Supervision of the Internal Audit Consultants in the implementation of the audit exercise of the bank
♦ Organising the exit discussion with the Internal Consultants. Retail Operations Group and Compliance Team
♦ Present and discuss review findings with Chief Audit Executive, updating with resulting review comments.
♦ Manages the Budget for the Internal Audit Unit to ensure no abuses.
♦ Preparing the Board Audit Reports for branches and HO

♦ Liaising with the Group Heads. Zonal Heads, and Auditees on the resolution of issues emanating from audit

♦ Propose amendments to SOPs in line with current and best practices in the bank
♦ Training and continuous improvement of team members.
♦ Fill the unit’s staffing needsand those of other related units in the Bank.
♦ Other duties as assigned by the Chief Audit Executive
♦ Ensuring that critical Applications are reviewed at least once in a year.
♦ Perform regular audit testing and provide recommendations, and guidance on identified security and control risks.

Qualifications and Experience
♦ First degree in any discipline or BSc Computer Sciences. Relevant Masters’ degree will be an advantage
♦ Mandatory: AOB/ACA/ACCA/CFA/ClSA (Compulsory).
♦ Recommended: CISSP. CISM. ACA. ACFE, CIA. CRISC. ISO. etc.
♦ A minimum of 6 years’experience in an audit function in the Banking /Audit firm/ financial institution.
♦ Audit & Investigation
♦ Financial and operational audit of organisations
♦ Financial/Banking Industry Knowledge
♦ F inancial Accounting a nd Aud it Tools
♦ Leadership/Supervisory
♦ Strategic Focus
♦ Integrity