Head Office Audit, Senior Manager

Job Purpose:

• Evaluate the system of internal controls, risk management and governance to assess effectiveness and efficiency of the business / operations units.
• Provide consultancy on Policy and Procedure and others required by management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Head of Head Office Audit in ensuring that the approved Audit Plans of the Head Office and ad-hoc assignments are carried out.
• To coach and guide the team member to discharge duties and responsibilities as delegated and ensure that the tasks assigned are completed within the timeframe allocated.
• Assist the Head of Head Office Audit in ensuring that all operational lapses and weaknesses are raised for management's information and consideration for the next course of actions.
• Perform/ review the audit plan for Head Office , risk assessment, audit programme and audit checklist is prepared and briefing is done with all team members and Head of Head Office Audit, prior to audit assignment.
• Review extractions of audit samples, conduct Pre-Audit Risk Assessment on the operations/business units to be audited and conduct audit within the timeframe allocated.
• Assess, evaluate and review the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal controls implemented by the auditees.
• Identify the root cause of the audit issue, assess, evaluate and examine the audit results.
• To ensure that the audit findings raised are based on sufficient factual evidence, appropriate, logical and valid and address appropriate recommendations for improvement in each audit assignment.
• Promptly informed of any fraud or serious audit findings to the Head of Head Office Audit for immediate action.
• Submitted working papers to the Head of Head Office Audit within the reasonable timeframe for review prior issuance of the draft audit findings to the auditee.
• To assist the Head of Head Office Audit in preparing audit reports and to filing all working papers completely and keep safely for future reference.
• To assist the Head of Head Office Audit in ensuring all the findings had been resolved as per agreed by management and continuing follow-up and update on the status of unresolved audit findings.
• Sharing knowledge session on internal control and common audit findings/fraud case with the auditees.
• Assist and perform tasks as directed by the Head of Head Office Audit as well as Head of Operations and Chief Internal Auditor from time to time.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accountancy or any other related discipline.
• Other professional qualification such as CIAFIN/CBA/CCE/CIA/CIMA/ACCA/ CAMCO is an added advantage.
• At least 5 years in auditing Head Office function in financial institution specializing in Head
• Office audit with minimum of 3 years as Team Lead/ Supervisory role.
• Strong thought process, inquisitive, possess critical thinking, analytical, good communication and report writing skills
• People management and professional ethics
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent communication