Internal Audit Senior Associate 1
Overall governance
• Ensure understanding of internal audit policies, standards, guidelines, and methodologies, to provide guidelines to junior members.
• Support periodic revision of policies, standards, guidelines, work processes and procedures that are relevant to internal audit-related work, to ensure efficient operation and alignment with company’s policies & compliance with relevant governance.
Function-related accountabilities
1. Audit preparation and planning
• Plan, conduct evaluation, and provide reasonable assurance that risk management, control, financial and governance systems are functioning as intended, to ensure compliance with regulations and governance, as well as to ensure that the organization’s objectives and goals are met.
• Keep oneself updated with rules and regulations changes and variances, to maintain auditing standards and to ensure compliance.
2. Investigation and findings analysis
• Analyze data for internal audit and determine the adequacy and effectiveness of systems of internal accounting and operating control, as well as review operations and programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and goals to ensure integrity of internal audit process.
• Perform audit procedures, analyze effectiveness and efficiency of the control environment, and identify control gaps and opportunities to mitigate identified risks and explore operation improvement opportunities.
• Supervise junior members in coordination with other functions across the organization, particularly with risk, legal, and compliance to ensure efficiency, transparency, and accuracy of internal audit process.
• Report internal control issues and deficiencies identified directly to the audit committee, as well as share beneficial suggestions for improving the organization’s operations to ensure efficient and effective performance of all functions across the organization.
• Supervise documentation of the results of audit work in accordance with audit department and auditor standards to ensure clarity and integrity of the auditing results and processes.
• Provide support for Audit Committee meetings and liaise with relevant persons for supporting documents and reports required for Audit Committee meetings to ensure sufficient information for decision-making.
• Follow up on the implementation of recommendations to make sure that corrective actions are executed effectively.