Chan-ré Pietersen

Experience

Chan-ré has 10 years’ experience in the financial services sector both in audit and advisory. She started her career at an audit firm in South Africa and has been exposed to the financial services sectors within USA, UK, UAE and Africa.

She performed audit and advisory work in the areas of investment banking, corporate treasuries, asset backed securitization structures, retail banking, development banking and corporate banking. Since 2012, Chan-ré’s client experience included major businesses in South Africa and the rest of Africa. She also gained significant experience with a listed banking entity while being the audit manager on Atlas Mara Limited, which is listed on the LSE.

She is successful in helping clients to achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, improve internal controls, and reduce financial and operational risk. She has extensive experience in ISAE 3402 Type 1 and 2 reports and appreciates the need for these reports when dealing with her clients.

Her experience also includes the audits of large groups where she assisted with the audit and advising of critical standards namely IFRS 9, 16 and 15. She has a thorough understanding of the transitional work, implementation of each standard, coordinating the modelling thereof and reviewing the detailed disclosure required. Alongside that, she has been involved in group audits where the firms have transitioned on and off clients of the above-mentioned large groups and maintained the centralized function of group reporting for the end deliverable to the be communicated to the client and the audit committee.

She has extensive experience with JSE equity and debt listing requirements to assist clients with best practice measures, compliance with the various regulators and incorporating all pro-active measures issued by the JSE on an annual basis into the overall audit approach. Her current focus within the firm over and above delivering on audits of large groups is on monitoring and improving audit quality within the financial services business unit, whilst being part of the IRBA joint audit workgroup to assist audit firms with clients requiring joint audits and ensuring that all audit teams fulfil their duties as a key stakeholder.

She is also involved in the SAICA audit matters work group where a guide was formed for the audit considerations of the COVID 19 impact on banking clients.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (South Africa)
• SAICA Audit Matters Working Group (AMWG)
• IRBA Joint Audit Workgroup