Standard Chartered India | Senior Audit Manager - Transformation

Responsibilities

• Group Internal Audit & Investigation (GIAI) in Standard Chartered Bank is looking for an exceptional and dynamic Senior Audit Manager to join our Change Transformation audit team within the Functions – Group COO portfolio.
• This role will get to work on more complex audits such as cross-functional and multi-location high risk audits and will also provide you the opportunities to interact and engage with both Group and Country Stakeholders.
• Maintain an awareness of the Group's business strategy and model, and an understanding of the Group’s Transformation priorities.
• Perform, support, or lead where directed, the planning, fieldwork, and reporting of internal audit engagements to deliver agreed assurance objectives to established GIAI standards and timelines.
• Deliver quality audit reports that are effectively written with practical, actionable, measurable and value-added recommendations.
• Assist in standardisation and documentation of processes, risks, and controls and work with internal stakeholders to build a comprehensive and simple test procedures for Change Management.
• Liaise with Change Management standard owners where required.
• Assist to track and consolidate all Change related audit issues raised by GIAI, Regulators or Monitors and provide periodic updates to internal GIAI Management and senior risk committees of the Bank.
• Evaluate quantitative and qualitative data (using data analytics) to diagnose underlying issues, patterns and root causes.
• Monitor and track assigned audit issues and action plans, and report overdue items to the Head of Audit (HOA) for resolution.
• Execute audits in-line with the Group Internal Audit methodology.
• Build good working relationships with the business audit teams to facilitate execution of integrated audit work.
• Assists in maintaining the right relationships with the Business leading to sound audit recommendations and channels of audit related communication and monitoring.
• Assist in continuous auditing and monitoring of key risks in Change Management.
• Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
• Share knowledge, skills and experience with team members and the wider GIAI and provide advisory to internal auditors from both Business and Technology on Change Management.
• Follow changes in the laws and regulations to identify emerging risks.

Requirements

• Energised by identifying opportunities for process improvement, driving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer and stakeholder experiences.
• Strong background in audit (with a focus on Change delivery and Agile concepts) with a minimum of 7 years of experience preferably in the Banking and Financial services industry.
• Knowledge and experience in Change Management (e.
• Attention to detail and curiosity. Strong analytical skills and eager to learn.
• Excellent writing and articulation skills to succinctly communicate complicated technical issues in business terms.
• Strong interpersonal skills for building and maintaining credibly effective working relationships with counterparts in Group Internal Audit and business stakeholders.
• High degree of responsibility, self-motivated, requiring minimal supervision.
• Ability to collect and objectively analyse and apply information, “thinking out of the box” where necessary, in supporting the planning, fieldwork or reporting of results of audit engagements.
• Self-directed and able to work with minimum supervisions.
• Working experience with analytics/visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, or similar tools, and is able interpret and generate data insights using data visualisation.
• Certifications / Qualifications (only where mandatory).
• Professional Audit Certification (CIA, CISA, CISM, CISSP etc) and experience in executing a risk-based Audit Methodology, or a similar methodological approach.
• Professional Certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile Scrum Master, PMI-ACP) in Change Management preferred.
• Certifications around analytics and AI/Gen AI will be an advantage.

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is an international banking group headquartered in London, with a strong focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It was formed in 1969 through the merger of Standard Bank and The Chartered Bank.

Its Indian global business services centres hire finance professionals for financial control, stress testing, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Present in India for over 150 years, with global business services centres in Bengaluru and Chennai