Specialist: Audit Data Analysis

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Manager: IT Audit, the successful incumbent is accountable for supporting the internal audit function by providing insightful analysis of data to identify trends and patterns and drive effective decision-making. The incumbent will execute the internal audit methodology and a risk-based audit approach with a high focus on data analytics. In addition, the incumbent will be conducting research, analysis and providing statistics for forecasting and operational purposes to enable effective decision making in support of the Internal Audit assurance and advisory services linked to RAF governance, risk management and controls.

Key Performance Areas

Collation, Interrogation, Analysis and Compilation of Accurate Statistical Reports

• Interpret data, identify trends and patterns, and create reports that provide insights to support potential areas of risk or non-compliance.


• Develop dashboards and visualizations to communicate findings to stakeholders.


• Develop and implement data analytics procedures to support continuous monitoring and risk assessment activities.


• Communicate data-driven insights, findings, and recommendations to management and stakeholders through clear and concise written and verbal reports.


• Perform analysis on all qualitative and quantitative data.


• Develop various templates and reporting automation processes and prepare reports for systems.


• Provide relevant statistical reports for forecasting purposes.

Data Integration

• Ensure data accuracy, completeness and consistency.


• Collect, clean, and analyse large data sets from various sources to support internal audit objectives.


• Participate in special projects, investigations, and process improvement initiatives as required.


• Prepare cross systems integration reports from mulitple data sources (integrate various report from all systems reports).


• Maintain a database (department data repository) and perform updates on the data required and report accordingly.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with internal audit team and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and identify areas for improvement.


• Coordinate with stakeholders to determine reporting requirements to confirm data requirements.


• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal external stakeholders in relation to proactively and progressively manage the relationships.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Data Science/ Information Science/ Informatics/ Statistics/ Computer Science related qualification.


• Certifications in relevant analytics and related tools, e.g., PowerBI, SAP BI, ACL, SQL, Python or VBA will be an added advantage.


• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in data analytics, reporting / analytical reporting or related environment.


• Advanced microsoft excel skills (the use of vlookups, pivot tables, DAX, and VBA).


• Data analytics fieldwork (ACL & SQL) will be highly advantageous.


• Experience working with SAP BI or Microsoft Power BI will be highly advantageous.


• Experience working with VBA and Python programming languages will be highly advantageous.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.