SOX & Internal Controls Analyst

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**Overview** This role is for a SOX & Internal Controls Analyst at Lesaka Technologies, supporting the South African operations of the Lesaka Merchant Division. The primary purpose is to assist in the documentation, monitoring, management testing, and remediation of the Lesaka Merchant SOX and internal controls framework. The Analyst will collaborate closely with the Senior Manager: SOX & Internal Controls, Finance teams, business process and control owners, Group SOX, Internal Audit, and external audit. This is a developmental position designed to build the Merchant division's internal controls capability over time, with the Analyst taking increasing responsibility for assigned SOX workstreams. The role operates as a first-line function, focusing on support for control documentation, monitoring, testing, and remediation, rather than performing, approving, or owning business controls. **What you will do** * Support the documentation, monitoring, management testing, and remediation of the Lesaka Merchant SOX and internal controls framework. * Work closely with the Senior Manager: SOX & Internal Controls, Finance teams, business process and control owners, Group SOX, Internal Audit, and external audit. * Understand how processes operate, obtain and assess evidence, perform walkthroughs and management testing, identify and escalate exceptions, maintain control documentation, and monitor remediation. * Prepare and maintain risk and control matrices, process narratives, process flowcharts, control descriptions, control-owner registers, walkthrough and testing documentation, remediation trackers, and evidence repositories. * Perform quality checks on documentation to confirm accuracy and adherence to actual business processes, escalating identified gaps. * Support and document process walkthroughs with control owners, covering transaction origination, systems used, financial reporting risks, key controls, and supporting evidence. * Document control ownership, performance, review, and exception-management arrangements, identifying discrepancies between documented and actual processes. * Escalate control gaps, inconsistencies, and potential changes in financial reporting risk identified during walkthroughs. * Perform risk-based management testing of control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness under Senior Manager direction. * Conduct assigned testing procedures, including population and sample validation, evidence inspection, re-performance, inquiry, observation, and exception identification. * Assess management review controls for precision and evaluate completeness and accuracy controls over information used in control performance. * Promptly disclose any involvement in the design or remediation of an assigned control to ensure appropriate testing evaluation or reallocation. * Prepare clear, accurate, and supported testing workpapers for review. * Maintain the SOX remediation tracker, obtain regular progress updates from business owners, and collect/assess implementation evidence. * Identify overdue actions, perform timely follow-ups, escalate delays, and support risk-based post-remediation monitoring. * Prepare remediation evidence and preliminary validation results for review and closure. * Coordinate evidence collection across Merchant, ensuring completeness, appropriate dating, clear linking to controls, and retention in the designated repository. * Perform evidence quality checks and escalate deficiencies. * Identify weak or incomplete evidence early and support control owners in understanding evidence requirements without performing the control. * Support the coordination and timely resolution of Group SOX, Internal Audit, and external audit requests. * Maintain information-request trackers, coordinate meetings and walkthroughs, and follow up on requested information. * Maintain complete and accurate data for the Merchant SOX dashboard and status reporting. * Track open and overdue findings, management testing, control failures, remediation progress, outstanding information requests, and recurring matters. * Prepare periodic status reporting and analysis for review. * Identify potential control gaps, inefficient manual activities, duplicate controls, missing approvals, segregation-of-duties concerns, weak evidence, and inconsistent practices. * Identify opportunities for system-enabled controls, standardisation, and more efficient and sustainable control execution. * Support the analysis and resolution of control problems, ensuring business owners approve and implement changes. * Support control owners in understanding control requirements, performance frequency, review responsibilities, escalation expectations, evidence retention, and exception-documentation requirements. * Provide approved templates, examples, and guidance to support consistent control execution. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Education:** * BCom Accounting, BCom Internal Audit, BCom Finance, or an equivalent relevant degree. * Progress toward a relevant professional qualification such as CASA, CIA, or CISA will be advantageous. * **Experience:** * Approximately two to three years of relevant experience in external audit, internal audit, SOX, risk, internal controls, finance controls, or related assurance work. * Big Four or large audit firm experience is advantageous but not required. * Exposure to financial services, fintech, payments, or high-volume transaction environments is advantageous. * **Technical Skills:** * Understanding of financial statement assertions, financial reporting risks, risk and control matrices, process walkthroughs, control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness. * Working knowledge of risk-based testing, population and sample validation, reconciliations, management review controls, segregation of duties, ITGC concepts, information used in controls, and audit evidence. * Strong Excel skills are required. * Power BI, Visio or process mapping tools, and GRC or SOX platform experience are advantageous. * **Personal Characteristics:** * Highly organised and disciplined in completing follow-ups and maintaining accurate records. * Comfortable with detail while able to understand the underlying process and risk. * Analytically strong, curious, and willing to raise appropriate challenge. * Confident working across Finance, Operations, and Technology and able to engage stakeholders professionally. * Able to distinguish evidence from explanation and focused on supporting practical, sustainable improvement. **Who should apply** An ideal candidate for this role possesses a BCom degree in Accounting, Internal Audit, Finance, or an equivalent field, with an advantage for those progressing towards professional qualifications like CASA, CIA, or CISA. The candidate should have approximately two to three years of relevant experience in external audit, internal audit, SOX, risk, internal controls, or finance controls, with an advantageous background from a Big Four or large audit firm, and exposure to financial services, fintech, payments, or high-volume transaction environments. They must demonstrate a strong understanding of financial statement assertions, reporting risks, control frameworks, and audit methodologies, coupled with strong Excel skills and a working knowledge of risk-based testing and ITGC concepts. This individual should be highly organised, disciplined, detail-oriented yet capable of grasping underlying processes and risks, analytically strong, curious, and confident in engaging stakeholders across Finance, Operations, and Technology, while being focused on practical, sustainable improvement and adept at evaluating evidence. **Deadline** 13 October 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/sox-internal-controls-analyst-lesaka-technologies Source: myjobmag

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