Audit Manager (UAE Nationals)

Job Description

Audit Manager (UAE Nationals) (ID: 0000IJ69)                                                   

GCB5

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Supporting and Leading the delivery of audits, some major and/or highly complex, which provide internal customers and stakeholders with critical assessments of the HSBC governance, risk and internal control frameworks.

Ensuring that audit assignments are completed in a timely and efficient manner with due respect to the standards established by GBL INA, industry best practices and the relevant risk and regulatory environment.

Providing specialist professional advice on audit findings and recommendations, thus ensuring that they are both fully understood and properly implemented by management.

Key Accountabilities in this role:

• Develop a good understanding of the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of the banks’ current business and processes and how that might impact an audit.
• Fully understand the impact of their audit findings, including recommendations for improvements in business processes, on the current and future business model and operating environment.
• Ensure that work at all times suitably reflects the changing scope, nature and risk profile of the business, thereby optimising the audit value-added.
• Ensure that the scope, approach and methodology of each audit are fully reflective of the importance of HSBC’s focus on its customers and the quality of the operating environment necessary to support that focus.
• Clearly communicate issues and associated risks and identify the root cause and the possible strategic implications.
• Effectively communicate with all members of the audit team and senior audit management throughout each stage of the audit from planning through to completion.
• Ensure that each member of the audit team is provided with an appropriate platform for airing their views and suggestions.
• An independent professional advisor who proactively engages and provides value-added expertise and advice to stakeholders and team members.
• Leads and effectively manages large and complex audits that set high standards in terms of being conducted in accordance with the business, legal and regulatory risk profile of HSBC.
• Effective at writing audit reports that adequately communicate the issues and risks to HSBC.
• Proficient at analysing audit issues and operating weaknesses as well as working with stakeholders to efficiently and effectively address them.
• The jobholder will also adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.
• The jobholder will implement the Group compliance policy by containing compliance risk in liaison with Global Head of Compliance, Global Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer. The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply.
• This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising with Compliance department about new business initiatives at the earliest opportunity. Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.