Director, Audit and Advisory Services Asia

3 weeks ago


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Manulife Full time

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

**The opportunity**

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you.

**Responsibilities**:

- Accountable for the delivery of high quality, professional and cost-effective value-added risk-based audit services for assigned areas in Asia.
- Understand the risk profile of assigned area and monitor these profiles to identify emerging risks.
- Provide thought leadership on ways to further improve the effectiveness, efficiency and consistency of Audit Services in assigned areas.
- Provide Asia business management of assigned areas with objective and reliable assessments of the adequacy of risk management practices within their divisions, and provide value-added and practical recommendations or trainings to improve risk management practices.
- Recommend areas to be audited based on risks and applicable requirements for assigned areas.
- Prepare/review audit reports; audit reports are to be clear, concise and well-organized, and issued within departmental service standards.
- Utilize data analytics to improve effectiveness and efficiency of audit process.
- Ensure quality of work completed.
- Manage projects within time budgets and target dates, reporting any timing problems or budget over-runs to audit management.
- Provide feedback and coaching to team members.
- Own relationship management responsibility of assigned area.
- Follow up with business unit management regularly on the status/implementation of corrective action plans for timely audit issue closure.
- Actively participates/take lead in departmental initiatives.

**What motivates you?**
- You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

**What we are looking for**:

- Detailed knowledge of risks, products and processes for insurance businesses. Good working knowledge of risks management in distribution compensation, actuarial operations, insurance operations, product development and company policies as well as relevant regulatory requirements.
- Good knowledge of audit methodologies, control frameworks and risk management techniques
- Asia regional audit experience is a plus
- A fast learner
- Excellent communication skills, oral and written. Able to deal with confrontations and resolve conflicts.
- Proven leadership skills and demonstrate people management capabilities
- Proven relationship skills including ability to deal effectively with staff at all levels to GLT
- Results oriented; able to strike balance on multiple priorities and projects
- Sound business judgment in assessing significance of issues and developing value added recommendations
- Commitment to quality
- Recognized accounting (CA, CMA, CGA, CPA), auditing (CIA, CISA) or related professional designation
- Strong team-player who willingly and openly shares ideas and knowledge. Able to collaborate with different team members in a multi-cultural environment.
- Provide clear and timely constructive feedback. At the same time, actively seeks feedback from others and incorporates any necessary changes.
- Challenges the status quo and proactively makes suggestions for continuous improvement.
- 10+ years relevant experience

**What can we offer you?**
- A competitive salary and benefits packages.
- A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
- A focus on growing your career path with us.
- Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance. Professional development and leadership opportunities.

**Our commitment to you**
- Values-first culture
We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
- Boundless opportunity
We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
- Continuous innovation
We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
- Deliveri



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