Northern Trust India | Audit Manager

Responsibilities

• The Audit Manager is responsible for conducting and documenting audits throughout the Corporation.
• This role leads audit project teams, which includesproviding oversight to the audit team and communicating results of the engagement to management.
• As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability.
• Leads two or more audits simultaneously at a minimum.
• Conduct and document more complex and high risk audits throughout the Corporation.
• Assisting in Audit Plan evolution by challenging scoping of audit project.
• Leads a team of 1 or more staff in executing audits.
• Works closely with the Audit Team Leader/Senior Audit Manager to perform/develop the audit planning, scoping, and fieldwork execution strategy.
• Works closely with the Audit Team Leader/Senior Audit Manager to develop the audit budget and/or timeframe for how the audit will be completed.
• Reviews the work papers of the audit team members ensuring that departmental standards have been met.
• Communicates the audit status to business unit and Audit Services management.
• Responsible for direct interaction with different committees and/ormanagement.
• Coordinates with other audit teams (business unit, regional, and specialist) to ensure evaluations of related areas occur timely and cover key areas withinthe audit.
• Provides training, coaching, and auditing expertise to the audit team.
• Leading continuous monitoring meetings with business and Audit Services management.
• Operates independently; has in-depth knowledge of business unit/function.

Qualification and skills

• 11 to 15 years’ experience in internal audit in the financial services industry is preferred but not mandatory.
• Comprehensive knowledge of internal audit processes such as sampling, testing, and process/control walkthroughs with strong work paperdocumentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications; experience with audit work paper applications preferred.
• A College or University degree and/or adept auditing experience in a financial institution, or similar public accounting experience.
• Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CIA, ACA, CFA, ACCA) and/or an MBA along with demonstrated technical abilities in select areas (e.g.,accounting, regulatory compliance, etc.) are preferred but not mandatory.
• General knowledge of the operations, functions, and objectives of interfacing areas is required to properly perform audits on operations, services,systems, workflow, and operational impact on other areas.
• Proven ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Must be flexible and adaptive to change.

Northern Trust

Northern Trust Corporation is a US financial services company founded in Chicago in 1889 and still headquartered there; its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol NTRS. It works for institutional investors, corporations and wealthy families and individuals, and its business spans asset servicing (custody, fund administration and fund accounting for pension funds, asset managers, insurers and other institutions), wealth management, asset management through Northern Trust Asset Management, and banking. The company calls its employees "partners".

In India, Northern Trust works from Bengaluru and from Pune, where its office in Kharadi opened in 2016. These teams support the global business in asset servicing and wealth management operations: fund accounting and NAV calculation for mutual, hedge and private equity funds, transfer agency, trade settlements, reconciliations, anti-money-laundering checks and client reporting, alongside risk, finance and technology roles. Work of this kind suits B.Com, M.Com, MBA (Finance), CA, CFA and ACCA profiles.

• Industry: Financial services — asset servicing, wealth management, asset management and banking
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, USA
• In India: Offices in Pune and Bengaluru