Layla has more than 14 years experience in auditing and is currently the Head of Governance and Shared Services within Nedbank Group Internal Audit. She is mainly responsible for execution and delivery of specialist audits impacting accounting and finance risk, climate risk as well as balance sheet management for the Nedbank Group. Layla has worked on various strategic audits and enjoys challenging assignments. Layla has worked in Nedbank Group Internal Audit since March 2015 in various senior roles including GIA Operations, GIA Risk, Compliance, Credit and Model Risk. She was mainly responsible for the day-to-day operations, Group reporting, managing stakeholder relationships, managing finance/budget and oversight of the audit plan. Layla also has experience in working within AML/Financial Crime, strategic initiatives including data and privacy programmes, model risk and credit.
Prior to joining Nedbank, Layla worked at PwC for more than 8 years. She completed her training contract with PwC at the end of 2008 and stayed on as a senior internal audit consultant, thereafter becoming a manager in 2010. She was responsible for managing internal audit assignments within Financial Services and Telecommunications. Layla’s main areas of expertise include governance, risk and controls assurance including IT auditing. Some of her larger internal audit clients include Bonitas, Strate, RenCap, SBV Services (Pty) Ltd, BankservAfrica, Indwe Risk Services, Etana Insurance, Telkom, Telesure, Glenrand MIB, Spescom, Vukile, Investec, Sanlam Capital Markets, Nedbank, Sasol, Standard Bank, and Land Bank.