REQ ID 144445 Thembi Mtshali

Location: Johannesburg

Closing Date: 13 March 2026

Job Family

Risk, Audit and Compliance

Career Stream

Auditing

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To support the delivery of independent, risk-based assurance across banking processes, technology, and regulatory compliance in accordance with IIA Standards and regulatory expectations (SARB/FSCA/FIC/POPIA/King IV).

When joining the Nedbank Group Internal Audit Graduate Programme, you will not only become part of a leading initiative that empowers you to design your own career journey through tailored experience aligned with your ambitions – you will also experience what it means to be a Next Gen Impact Maker in a complex banking environment.

Job Responsibilities

•    Assist with risk-based scoping, control design assessment, and test of controls.
•    Assist to coordinate and manage audit by monitoring timelines; milestones and deliverables to ensure appropriate contingencies are implemented so that audit can be performed as per agreed scope.
•    Execute walkthroughs, sampling, and data analytics; maintain high-quality workpapers.
•    Perform walkthroughs and design/operating effectiveness testing for key controls (manual, automated, IT application controls, ITGC).
•    Execute sample testing, data validation, and exception analysis; document workpapers to internal audit quality standards.
•    Identify control deficiencies, articulate findings, and agree remediation with management.
•    Support continuous auditing/monitoring and contribute to analytics scripts/dashboards.
•    Engage professionally with stakeholders and maintain strict confidentiality and ethics.
•    Draft clear, evidence-based findings with root cause analysis and practical remediation suggestions
•    Work in accordance with the IIA Standards and bank audit methodology.
•    Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in GIA and Nedbank culture building initiatives.
•    Proactively drive and manage your own Learning and Development in line with prescribed IIA requirements.

Essential Qualification

•    Credit Graduate – Bachelor of Commerce: Internal Auditing/Accounting Sciences/ Finance
•    Environmental and Social Governance Graduate – Bachelor of Commerce: Internal Auditing/Accounting Sciences/Finance
•    Business and Commercial Banking Graduate – Bachelor of Commerce: Internal Auditing/Accounting Sciences
•    Markets Graduate – Bachelor of Commerce: Internal Auditing/Accounting Sciences/Finance or a BSC in financial engineering/Financial mathematics
•    Cyber Graduate – BSC/BCom in Information Technology or bachelor’s degree in cyber security and/or CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent foundational cyber security certification)

Exposure Requirements

•    Credit Graduate – Prior Banking Exposure
•    Environmental and Social Governance Graduate – Prior Banking Exposure
•    Business and Commercial Banking Graduate – Prior audit exposure in the financial services sector or audit firms
•    Markets Graduate – Prior exposure in a trading environment/Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) /Markets
•    Cyber Graduate – Prior exposure as a service desk technician or exposure to networking fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

All graduates:
•    Honours – Internal Auditing

Minimum Experience Level

   •       1-2 years

Technical / Professional Knowledge

•    Ethics and Fraud
•    Governance, Risk and Controls
•    Relevant banking regulatory knowledge
•    Auditing
•    Microsoft Office Product Suite
Cyber security graduate:
•    Cyber Security Fundamentals (Required)
•    IT & Infrastructure Concepts

Behavioural Competencies