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Citi Internal Audit (IA) provides independent assessments of Citi’s control environment, risk management and governance for key stakeholders including Citi’s board of directors, senior management and regulators. We are a global function with over 2,500 professionals providing assurance across all of Citi's businesses.
We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Director, Audit - Hybrid (Internal Job Title: Audit Director - C15) based in Hong Kong. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future.
The Audit Director is a senior level management position responsible for contributing to the strategic direction of Citi’s Internal Audit (IA) function, in coordination with the overall Audit team. This role will focus on the business processes residing primarily in CHKL. This role will own front-to-back audit delivery for specific product areas and will act as the Deputy Head of Audit for CHKL. Wealth Hong Kong and CHKL offer products and services within Branch Banking, Deposits and Banking Services, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Investment Products and Lending Products, including Securities Based Lending. This role will lead a team of professionals Risk Assessing and Executing Audits around these activities. Further, this role will collaborate with the IA Wealth Audit Director in Singapore on Private Banking activities in Hong Kong and will partner with the IA Wealth Singapore Director to assess shared services activities across the Asia South and Asis North Clusters. Lastly this role will support the IA Wealth book of work, including global audits with a Hong Kong Touchpoint. The overall objective of this role is to direct audit activities that support Wealth products, services, functions, or legal entities at the global and/or local level, in accordance with IA standards, Citi policies, and local regulations.
In this role, you’re expected to:
Develop the strategy and direct the execution of a portfolio of concurrent assurance activities relating to their portion of the Audit Universe, of high quality, within budget, and within the expected timelines.
Ensure timely delivery of comprehensive regulatory and internal audit issue validation, including issues arising from other external parties
Ensure IA meets/exceeds expectations, and support and drive the IA Transformation Program and IA’s and management’s efforts
Attract, develop, and retain talent; recommending staffing levels required to fulfill responsibilities effectively while establishing and adhering to talent management processes and compensation and performance management programs
Work across IA to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of resources.
Provide local site leadership encouraging engagement and collaboration across all IA organizations.
Perform control environment assessments and identify thematic issues and trends to improve controls and governance over the identification, measurement, management, and reporting of risks.
Support and endorse the Quality Assurance (QA) function of IA, and resolve issues found by QA, improving audit processes and coverage
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Represent IA in relevant governance forums including Boards and Committees.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships across other IA teams, Management Stakeholders (MSs), and Regulators.
Build trust through proactive and transparent interactions while maintaining strong relationships with regulators aligned to Internal Audit
Engage regularly with MSs to understand emerging risks and help address escalations.
Pro-actively advise and assist MSs in considering risks and controls. Support the audit team in their interactions with MSs.
Participate and share relevant knowledge and insight, on an ongoing basis, within and across IA teams, to drive the consistent application of the Methodology, consistency of audit opinions, higher efficiency, and improved quality of overall assurance
Oversee and responsible for the development of the annual Audit Plan as it relates to the legal entity where required by local regulators or Citi internal policies, presenting the annual Audit Plan for approval by the legal entity Board / Board Audit Committee.
Provide periodic reports to the legal entity Audit Committees, senior management, and other Board committees as relevant, summarizing the status of the legal entity Audit Plan, results of audit activities, details of significant issues identified.
As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:
15+ years of relevant experience
Proven history of building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, regulators, and peers
Demonstrated ability to think strategically, analytically, and creatively problem solve
Bachelor’s degree; Advanced degree preferred
Ability to independently plan, develop and lead initiatives
Well-developed listening skills and a strong ability to engage at the senior management level
Articulate and effective communicator, both orally and in writing
Strong interpersonal skills, with evidence of working in collaboration across large organizations
Strong leadership skills with a proven history in driving positive and sustained change
Highly motivated, strong attention to detail, collaborative, organized
Significant knowledge and expertise of compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks, and appropriate controls
Demonstrated ability to assess complex issues through root cause analysis and other analytical techniques; structure potential solutions; drive to resolution with senior stakeholders
Ability to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level using sound judgment and successful execution, understanding how to operate effectively across diverse businesses
Experience with and previous exposure to internal or external control functions and regulators (incl. the US)
Ability to challenge business management and escalate issues when appropriate
Comfort navigating complex and working in highly matrixed organizations
Effective negotiation skills, an initiative-taking and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues and strength in sustaining independent views.
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