Our esteemed guest joining us on this show is Susan Retief.
Susan is a professional internal auditor who qualified with her BCom Honours in Internal Auditing with the University of Pretoria and joined one of the big 4 Audit Firms, specifically PWC where she became an IT Audit Manager and has since built a career spanning 10 years within the Audit space with a focus on the IT Audit Function within advisory and auditing, holding several Management and Senior Management positions.

She has a proven track record of delivering in high pressure environments.
Some of the Key fundamental skills Susan says she has developed through her career within the audit space are her communication skills ability, expectation management, stakeholder coordination and leading teams.
She has also had exposure to IT General Controls, the Sarbane-Oxley Act, ISAE3402 and COSO. 
Susan is an avid learner and focuses on the continuous growth of her skillset both personally and professionally and sees each challenge rather as an opportunity to learn and believes in welcoming change to ensure continuous growth.
Susan lives by the phrase, "Be the mentor you which you had" and she has played a very active role in the leadership and mentoring of colleagues and her teams she has and works with, which feeds into her ultimate goal of adding value and making a difference wherever she is involved.

Bongani holds his MCom in Financial Economics from the University of
Johannesburg and has also completed a post graduate diploma in Management
Practice at the Henly Business School. His experience, all of which is in the
banking sector at most of the Major banks in South Africa, spans over 10 years,
covering Credit Regulatory analytics, Quantitative Analytics and Model Risk Audit.
Amongst his technical abilities Bongani has believes that he has been able to
highly refine other high-level skills such as ability to prepare and deliver
presentations efficiently, working under pressure, paying attention to detail and
employing critical analysis.
Bongani is currently the Senior Audit Manager: Model Risk Lead at one of the
major banks in South Africa

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Welcome to the first episode of Win@Work, where we delve into the guests journey to the top while bringing unique insights, drawn from first-hand experience on the Audit and Finance industry’s most trending topics.. This week, we're joined by Phindile Jili, an expert in the field, who will share insights and tips that will make a real difference in your career as an it auditor. Our conversation covers key topics, and you'll walk away feeling inspired and equipped with new ideas to try.

Phindile is currently the Information Technology Audit Manager at Standard Bank within the Cyber security department and general resilience team

She has 15 years of experience within the IT Audit function and started off her career as an IT Audit Consultant in the Risk Advisory division of Deloitte. Her areas of expertise include the assessment of cyber security, general controls (ITGC), application controls, data analytics and business process reviews as well as risk management and project assurance.

She has gained extensive knowledge in the Financial Services sector, focusing specifically within Corporate and Investment Banking and other Business banking areas.

She has a proven track record of delivering a quality product on complex engagements in a timely manner and recently led and completed a SWIFT Technology and Cyber Security assessment in the bank which focused on security controls within the banks payments landscape to provide an independent opinion on compliance of the banks security controls against the SWIFT Customer Security Programme (CSP).

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