• Collaborate with the Group Internal Audit Executive in formulating and implementing the GIA data analytics strategy aligned with the
• Shoprite Group’s overarching strategy, key risks, and business initiatives.
• Develop and maintain a robust audit methodology for Data Analytics.
• Align the data analytics strategy with the Shoprite Group’s overarching strategy, key risks, and business initiatives.
• Develop and execute the Annual Audit Plan, specifically the Data Analytics Audit plan approved by the Audit and Risk Committee.
• Assess data quality to understand potential of data sources, limitations, or issues.
• Establish and enforce governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and audit data management practices, data access, and data usage to identify risks, vulnerabilities, and areas for improvement.
• Develop and maintain a robust audit methodology for data analytics, including audit planning, execution, and reporting.
• Conduct regular reviews and assessments of audit documents, workpapers, and reports to ensure relevance, accuracy, and quality of deliverables.
• Develop and maintain data analytics scripts and tests.
• Manage end-to-end audit reviews using the Agile approach including determining the audit scope, objectives, and approach of internal audit deliverables.
• Detailed review of audit documents – audit program, planning, workpapers and audit reports to ensure relevance, precision, and quality of deliverables.
• Build a cluster-based infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data source.
• Identify and design data pipeline with greater scalability, optimised data delivery to analytical tools.
• Implement re-usable utility functions that can be used in data pipeline stages.
• Develop strategic solutions to aggregate, analyse and visualise data using a variety of technologies.
• Manage performance and development of direct reports to reach business goals effectively; and
• Develop and maintain relationships with business and key stakeholders to ensure robustness and completeness of audit coverage and contribute at an insight generator/trusted advisor to business to enhance assurance provided of the control environment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather insights, identify opportunities, and address challenges related to data analytics and internal audit.
• Champion the adoption of data analytics within the GIA function and across the organization to foster a data-driven culture.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Finance or a related field

• +7 years experience in data analytics, data mining, and visualisation techniques – and at least 3 years spent in a Senior Manager role
• Proficiency in programming languages such as ACL, Arbutus, Python, R, or SQL
• Strong understanding of statistical methods and analytical tools

Analysing - Analyses numerical data and all other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns, and relationships; probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis; demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.

Communication Skill - Communicates effectively through well-structured, clear, and concise writing, avoiding unnecessary jargon and tailoring information to meet the needs of the intended audience. Articulates ideas fluently and clearly, confidently delivering presentations while responding adeptly to audience feedback and projecting credibility.

Planning and organising - Sets clearly defined objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances; identifies and organises resources needed to accomplish tasks; manages time effectively; monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.

Leadership - Provides others with a clear direction; motivates and empowers others; recruits staff of a high calibre; provides staff with development opportunities and coaching; sets appropriate standards of behaviour.

Ethical Standards - Adhering to principles and values - Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, builds diverse teams; encourages organisational and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.

Coping with pressures and setbacks - Maintains a positive outlook at work; works productively in a pressurised environment; keeps emotions under control during difficult situations; handles criticism well and learns from it; balances the demands of a work life and a personal life.

Deciding and Initiating - Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes; makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks.