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Responsibilities

Scope of Role:

• To provide independent assurance of compliance to internal and external obligations through an effective Audit and Assurance framework, and execute country level audits.

Key Responsibilities/Challenges:

• Risk Governance

• At the direction of Senior Audit & Assurance Manager, attend various meetings in order to better understand issues.

• Follow up issues rectifications

• Keep the senior managers and key stakeholders apprised of significant risks as they are identified.

• Internal Audit and Assurance

• Ensure that local, regulatory and Board audit requirements are met through audits & assurance reviews.

• Implement and maintain adherence to the Group’s Assurance and Audit methodologies.

• Reviewing, documenting, evaluating and testing general banking controls as well as information technology related controls such as system applications in a wide range of environments including mainframe, mid-range and client/server, data centers, network infrastructure, capacity monitoring as well as system security.

• Perform risk assessments and execute second line assurance reviews and/or internal audits in accordance with an agreed methodology and plan.

• Ensuring continuous improvement in internal control, provide business stakeholders with a clear understanding of areas of control weakness and where appropriate, recommendations on how to rectify.  

• Escalates overdue outstanding issues to senior management where necessary.

• Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management

• When assigned as team leader

• Manage the effectiveness of the audit execution throughout the audit & assurance review life cycle.

• Provide expertise advice and uplift team capabilities during audit & assurance reviews

• Maintain professional relationship with the business stakeholders during the course of review assignments and risk assessments.

• Communicating findings to client personnel and developing effective solutions.

• Preparing audit reports on findings and recommendations to senior management on findings in connection with the audit work performed.

Selection Criteria:

• University graduates, experience in banking industry or audit environment in relation to banking industry with solid experience in Information Technology.

• Good understanding of banking operations and the technical aspects of information systems and financial controls.

• Understanding of internal control concepts and experience in applying them to plan, perform, manage, and report on the evaluation of various business processes/areas/functions.

• Professional accounting/audit qualification such as CIA and CISA is an advantage.

• Experience in banking industry is strongly preferred.

• Ability to communicate effectively, both in oral and written English and Chinese.

• Ability to make balanced commercial judgments and provide pragmatic solutions.

• Well-organised with ability to prioritise and plan workload to ensure timely deliverables.

• Ability to work as a team and demonstrate strong leadership talent.

• Flexibility to work across business and geographic functions.

• Ability to commit to >40% business travel.

• Around 10 years practical experience

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