📍 Johannesburg, South Africa (Hybrid)
🏢 Absa Bank Limited – 15 Troye Street, Johannesburg, 2001
🆔 Requisition ID: R-15981483
⏳ Closing Date: 03 December 2025 
📌 Full-Time | Hybrid Work

🔎 Job Overview

Absa Group is looking for a skilled Assistant Vice President – Internal Auditor to join its Personal & Private Banking (PPB) Internal Audit team. This role is ideal for a detail-driven professional passionate about strengthening risk management, advancing automated auditing techniques, and supporting the growth of a digitally enabled African bank.

You will contribute directly to delivering high-quality assurance, optimising risk controls, and introducing innovative data-driven audit practices that elevate the PPB audit environment.

📌 Key Responsibilities

🛡️ Compliance & Audit Methodology

• Ensure full adherence to Absa’s Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework, Internal Audit policies, and regulatory standards.

• Apply IA methodology throughout audit phases — planning, testing, reporting, issue validation.

• Ensure consistency and quality across all audit documentation.

📋 Audit Execution & Delivery

• Deliver assigned audits with minimal supervision, ensuring work aligns with risk priorities and audit objectives.

• Assist in planning and conducting audit fieldwork under the guidance of an Audit Manager.

• Prepare accurate working papers and evidence-backed audit findings.

• Perform issue validation testing and document results per IA standards.

🏦 Business & Sector Knowledge

• Maintain strong knowledge of Personal & Private Banking, including operational processes, risks, and regulatory updates.

• Participate in internal training, knowledge-sharing, and professional development sessions.

🤝 Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with audit stakeholders and contribute meaningfully during audit meetings.

• Present audit insights, updates, and findings to business partners and leadership forums.

• Collaborate with the wider Internal Audit function to drive consistency and shared learning.

📊 Data Analytics & Innovation

• Develop and run analytics tests to support audit work.

• Create reusable models, dashboards, and datasets to improve audit coverage.

• Support CAATs (Computer-Assisted Audit Techniques) and mentor team members on basic data analytics usage.

📈 Strategic Contribution

• Provide input for PPB audit committee reporting.

• Support annual Internal Audit strategic planning and risk-based audit mapping.

🎓 Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Auditing, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a similar field.

• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or equivalent professional qualification.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in internal auditing, governance, or risk management within financial services.

• Hands-on experience with automated auditing and tools such as SQL, Python, Power BI, ACL, IDEA.

• Familiarity with technology audits, digital banking, and CAATs.

💡 Competencies & Skills

• Technical Expertise in banking operations & data governance

• Automated Auditing & continuous monitoring

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving

• Excellent written & verbal communication

• Collaboration within cross-functional teams

• Strong innovation mindset

• Leadership qualities and accountability

⚖️ Employment Equity Statement

Absa is an equal opportunity employer committed to fairness, diversity, and inclusivity. Preference may be given to candidates from designated groups in line with its Employment Equity objectives.

💼 Best CV Tips for All Internal Audit Job Applications

• Start with a strong professional summary tailored to internal audit.

• Highlight audit frameworks, e.g., Risk Management Framework, IA methodology, King IV.

• Showcase experience in data analytics tools (SQL, Python, Power BI, ACL, IDEA).

• Include quantifiable results, e.g., “Reduced control gaps by 20%”.

• Add certifications: CIA, CISA, ACCA, SAICA articles.

• Demonstrate experience with automated auditing and continuous monitoring.

• Keep your CV clean, structured, and compliance-focused.

• Ensure your CV passes ATS scanning with clear headings and keywords: “Internal Audit”, “Risk Assurance”, “Control Testing”, “Data Analytics”.