Senior Manager: Technical Audit Support – ISQM and Financial Audit Support Jobs

Requirement Overview

This role supports the Business Unit Leader and Deputy Business Unit Leader in Technical Audit Support. It involves setting up, guiding, applying, maintaining, and improving audit quality management and financial audit technical support for all audit processes.

The role ensures compliance by:

• Reviewing the AGSA audit environment to spot quality risks and support needs, and addressing them effectively.
• Leading the audit quality improvement process by:
  • Guiding and tracking the identification and classification of issues in the AGSA’s System of Quality Management (SoQM).
  • Guiding and tracking actions to fix issues from proactive quality reviews (before audit reports are issued) and monitoring reviews.
• Working with quality management, Risk & Ethics units, and other key teams to help AGSA follow ISQM 1 standards.
• Creating a proactive audit quality review program (including overseeing reviews of audit files) that best improves quality across AGSA products.

This position needs strong knowledge of public sector auditing and quality standards, concepts, and principles. It includes:

• Offering technical auditing advice and guidance on auditing, quality management, and related topics.
• Managing and leading a team of audit quality reviewers and specialists to ensure the effective operation of ISQM improvement and financial audit technical support (related to application guidance) in the business unit.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Functions

• Provide input to develop AGSA quality and audit strategies.
• Help compile the Business Unit’s Performance Scorecard and ensure timely completion of its goals.
• Align business unit objectives with AGSA’s overall goals.
• Assist the Business Unit Leader and Deputy in managing key projects.
• Product Management: ISQM Improvement and Financial Audit Consultations and Guidance
  • Regularly check developments in the auditing field and emerging issues to identify support needs for annual financial statement audits.
  • Influence standard setters and lawmakers with insights from public sector audits.
  • Develop, distribute, and update guidance for this AGSA product.
  • Assess technical support needs proactively and find ways to meet them.
  • Look for new ways to provide support and improve audit quality.
  • Train auditors and leaders on complex technical topics.
  • Integrate accounting, auditing, legal, ethical, and legislative elements into technical guidance.
  • Create new technical policies, procedures, and guidance for audit staff, and improve audit execution methods.
  • Evaluate research impacts and identify affected stakeholders.
  • Consult internal teams to check proposed practices for practicality.
  • Ensure auditing guidelines align with the Auditor-General’s mandate under the Constitution, Public Audit Act, and best practices.
  • Lead the improvement process according to AGSA policies.
  • Address findings from monitoring and proactive reviews through root cause analysis.
  • Identify and classify SoQM issues.
  • Promote audit quality messages to audit business units to improve file quality.
  • Create a proactive quality review program with high impact on audit quality.
  • Share information with stakeholders via guidelines and multiple communication methods to reach audit staff.
  • Oversee specialists’ work on consultations, guidance development, and improvements.
  • Guide specialists (managers) in project planning.
  • Monitor project progress, timelines, and quality.
  • Manage projects to meet deadlines.
  • Provide technical input to other Technical Audit Support functions on documents for auditors.

Stakeholder Management

• Work with key stakeholders and management to share information, solve issues, and suggest improvements.
• Engage with audit business units and provide needed support.
• Offer technical advice on financial audits and quality to audit units proactively and on request to ensure high-quality audits.
• Provide guidance on audit issues at technical meetings.
• Support business unit leadership with administrative tasks for stakeholders, like timely responses on consistency, emerging issues, and progress updates.
• Provide timely inputs and collaborate with other Technical Audit Support areas on integrated tools.
• Encourage business units to take improvement actions and engage process owners proactively.
• Participate in AGSA’s ISQM forums.
• Support audit business units in preparing reports.
• Advise audit units, leadership, and committees on audit quality projects via submissions.
• Oversee discussions with audit business units on proactive review findings and manage expectations during reviews.

People Management

• Manage team performance to boost productivity.
• Motivate, coach, and mentor staff for maximum output and growth.
• Hire contract staff or pool resources to address risks and needs.
• Carry out the business unit’s People Plan.
• Share vision and organizational alignment messages.
• Contribute to transformation and culture plans.
• Join efforts to attract talent.
• Develop specialist skills and share them with business units.
• Manage performance using the Balanced Scorecard and individual contracts.
• Support collaboration and resource sharing for managers and assistants to aid succession and continuity.
• Recruit, appoint, and retain staff.

Financial Management

• Prepare and manage the center’s budget to meet financial standards.
• Follow internal processes and procedures.

Ad-hoc Duties

• Handle or manage other projects, tasks, and assignments as needed.

Skills, Experience & Education

Qualifications

Registered CA (SA)

Experience

• At least 5 years in a managerial role.
• Public sector audit experience is required.
• Experience in research and developing guidance for annual financial statement audits is an advantage.
• A strong track record in auditing compliance is beneficial.
• Experience leading and coordinating teams of qualified professionals.
• Experience building a new team and fulfilling a mandate.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Ability to manage and execute projects.
• Strong skills in providing vision and strategy.
• Critical thinking and risk awareness.
• Effective problem-solving.
• Conflict management.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Good mentorship and coaching abilities, with a focus on self and others’ development.
• Highly adaptable to change and uncertainty.

Added Advantage

• Public sector experience.
• 7-10 years of in-depth technical and/or audit quality experience.
• A valid driver’s license.

Closing Date: 20 January 2026