Our client is seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to join their team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work within a firm that values an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to financial instruments. The company is committed to fostering an environment that encourages collaboration, curiosity, inclusivity, and diversity of thought.
What you'll do:
As a Senior Internal Auditor, your role will be pivotal in conducting operational, financial, and regulatory internal audits. You will be responsible for identifying various risks through comprehensive risk assessment activities. Your excellent skills in planning, fieldwork and reporting will be crucial in executing internal audits. You will lead interviews to understand current systems, processes and controls while assessing risk. Your ability to design audit procedures for high-risk areas will be essential in this role. Furthermore, you will use your expertise in data analytics to identify emerging risks and patterns. Your communication skills will come into play as you draft audit reports and communicate results to management. Lastly, your advisory skills will be utilised as you guide stakeholders on control strengths and weaknesses while developing effective solutions.
- Identify operational, compliance, financial, and reputational risks through risk assessment, audit and consulting activity
- Execute the planning, fieldwork and reporting stages of internal audits
- Lead interviews to understand current state systems, processes, controls and assess risk
- Design audit procedures for high-risk and complex audit areas
- Perform data analytic procedures to identify emerging risks and patterns
- Draft audit reports and communicate audit results to management
- Advise stakeholders on the strengths and weaknesses of controls and develop effective solutions
- Perform due date tracking, management follow-up, and validation testing for the remediation of audit findings
What you bring:
As the ideal candidate for the Senior Internal Auditor position, you bring 4-5 years of audit experience preferably within the financial services sector. You have applied internal auditing standards, management principles and business practices in your previous roles. Your experience in collecting and analysing complex data allows you to evaluate information effectively and draw logical conclusions. You are comfortable preparing for and presenting to senior audiences. Your proficiency with Microsoft Office suite applications, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, will be beneficial in preparing work papers, reports, memos and summaries.
- 4-5 years of audit experience
- Internal audit experience within the financial services is required
- Experience applying internal auditing standards, management principles and business practices
- Experience collecting and analysing complex data, evaluating information and drawing logical conclusions
- Experience preparing for and presenting to senior audiences
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite applications
