Requirements

Responsibilities

Scope of Role:

• To provide independent assurance of compliance to internal and external obligations through an effective Audit and Assurance framework, and fulfil requirements for a country level audit capability.

Key Responsibilities/Challenges:

Risk Governance:

• At the direction of Head of Internal Audit & Assurance, attend various risk committees in order to better understand issues.

• Follow up the closure of audit issues.

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

Internal Audit and Assurance:

• Ensure that local, regulatory and Board audit requirements are identified and met through audits & assurance reviews that are conducted in accordance with an agreed methodology.

• Lead a small team of professional auditors implement and maintain adherence to the Group’s audit and assurance methodologies. Evaluating and testing of design and controls related to infrastructure, telecommunications, application controls, logical access and security, system development and capacity planning, etc in a wide range of environments (including mainframe, mid-range and client/server) as well as the disaster recovery planning.

• Conduct system project reviews during different project life cycle.

• Provide business stakeholders with a clear understanding of areas of control weakness and where possible suggestions on how to rectify.

• Identify and escalate ineffective controls and track for final rectification, ensuring a continuous improvement in control quality.

Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management:

• Develop the respective functional team.

• Uplift team capabilities.

• Sets and establishes team priorities through discussions with relevant stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the overall Internal Audit & Assurance agenda.

Selection Criteria:

• University graduates, solid experience in banking technology or technology audit environment in relation to banking industry.

• Good understanding of the technical aspects of Information System and data centre management, with strong project management skill.

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

• Strong leadership. Ability to lead a small professional team in an effective manner.

• Flexibility to work across the functions and situations, and change priorities at short notice.

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both in oral and in written English and Chinese. A professional qualification such as CPA, CISA and CIA is highly preferred.

• Ability to commit to >40% business travel.

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