Title:  Assistant Manager-Internal Audit

Area(s) of responsibility

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Key responsibilities:
Internal Audit 

Develop annually a risk-based internal audit plan for Audit Committee review and approval. Keep Senior Management and Audit Committee apprised of any changes needed to the internal audit plan. 
Oversee the implementation of the approved internal audit plan, ensure proper resourcing for implementation of the plan. 
Direct the work of external auditors on select audits, as directed by the Audit Committee and Senior Management, to ensure the audit work remains within the prescribed guidelines. 
Lead discussions with Senior Management, the Audit Committee, and the external auditors regarding internal audit plans, activities and findings 
Ensuring the timely completion of internal auditing engagements. Also, ensuring that reports on internal auditing engagements are provided to the Audit Committee with a minimum of delay. 
Provide consultation to Management on potential strategies to resolve audit findings while maintaining an appropriate level of independence. 
Coordinate and assist with the preparation of Audit Committee materials. Participate in quarterly Audit Committee meetings. 

Internal Financial Controls framework ongoing maintenance 

Implement the IFC framework within the organization. 
Develop and implement ‘change management’ program in order to keep the IFC framework aligned with changing business realities. 
Design and implement ‘testing strategy’ for annual validation of effectiveness of IFC framework in consultation with the statutory and internal auditors. 
Ensuring that business users update status of ‘controls assessment’ in the ‘IFC system’ regularly. 
Periodic tracking of business landscape through discussions with Senior Management and business operations teams in order to evaluate its impact on IFC framework e.g. new lines of businesses, new processes, systems, structures, emerging risks etc. 
Periodically scan business processes for identifying new fraud scenarios and related anti-fraud controls. 
Conduct periodic trainings to business users about IFC requirements, get them appreciate the purpose behind it and explain the role they have to play in keeping the framework alive 

Enterprise Risk Management 

Coordinate with the Executive Committee to firm up bi-annual meetings to deliberate on emerging risks that matter, re-assessment of risks currently tracked and update the ‘Risk Register’ accordingly. 
Coordinate with the assigned ‘risk owners’ and the functional ERM SPOCs to get the mitigation plans documented corresponding to the risks that are being tracked. 
Periodic tracking of business landscape through discussions with Senior Management and business operations teams in order to evaluate its impact on current ‘Risk Register’. 
Conduct dip stick review of quality and on ground effectiveness of mitigation plans submitted by various functions. 

Legal / Regulatory Compliances tracking 

Periodic interactions with the Legal / Compliance Head for analysing relevance of compliances currently tracked, addition-deletion to the list and getting the ‘legal content’ refreshed through an external agency at regular intervals. 
Ensuring that business users update status of regulatory compliances in the ‘Compliances tracking system’ regularly.