Internal Audit – Senior Vice President – Professional Practices Group – Head of Audit Strategy

Internal Audit – Senior Vice President – Professional Practices Group – Head of Audit Strategy

Requirements

• Minimum 20 years of experience in audit
• Strong business acumen in risk and controls
• Strong background in audit policy and methodology
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Project Management skills
• Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g. CPA or CIA)
• Experience of designing efficiency improvements
• Experience in regulated financial services environment with direct interactions with regulators

Responsibilities

• Executing on strategic initiatives and priorities of IA
• Managing and driving process improvements, and change and innovation in transforming audit practices
• Liaising with senior stakeholders in IA to understand training needs
• Working closely with IA’s learning and development team to deliver training
• Supporting the delivery of high-quality, consistent and risk-focused assurance work
• Improving processes to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness with which assurance work is executed
• Driving audit skills training and contributing to audit methodology and policy as it relates to audit strategy enhancements
• Advancing, changing, and implementing audit practices
• Leading business requirement needs across core IA processes to drive division-wide improvement efforts in efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity
• Proactively monitoring for changes to industry and regulatory requirements, guidance and pronouncements and leading remediation efforts for the division where appropriate
• Reviewing and improving the IA Methodology Manual
• Developing and updating methodology and guidance to align to evolving practices and innovation initiatives
• Assisting with IA self-assessments to key regulatory and industry standards
• Applying technical understanding of internal audit policies, standards, and practices to recommend enhancements to IA methodology and guidance
• Assisting with driving division-wide improvement efforts in efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity
• Assisting in the provision of technical and audit methodology training to auditors
• Identifying and contributing to the development of continuous improvement opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.