Internal Audit Lead

24 hours ago


Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mastercard, Inc. Full time
Job Description

This role is responsible for leading and providing day-to-day support for audit projects, advisory projects, and risk assessments.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Plan, manage, and execute multiple concurrent audit projects that are complex in nature, including assessing risks, determining scope, defining test procedures, review test results, and reporting IT, security, and operational audits within and across business lines, including assessing risks and determining scope of assigned audits.
  2. Supervise staff on audit engagements, providing guidance, oversight, workpaper review, and performance reviews.
  3. Identify control gaps and process improvement opportunities, and evaluate compliance with legal, regulatory, operational, and IT policies and procedures.
  4. Consult with management in determining action items required for resolution of control issues, working directly with senior management as necessary.
  5. Develop and communicate meaningful, value-added audit findings and reports.
  6. Track and monitor management action plans to ensure sustainable resolution of control gaps.
  7. Manage administration for assigned projects, including budget, scheduling, and correspondence with auditees.
Requirements
  1. Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
  2. CIA, CPA, CISA, or other professional audit-related certifications required.
  3. Minimally 10 years of demonstrated experience in internal/external IT audit or business audit is a must.
  4. Prior experience working in Big 4 audit firms would be desirable.
  5. Excellent working knowledge of IT general computer controls and related operations, including mainframe, UNIX, HP Nonstop, and Windows environments.
  6. Broad understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies.
  7. Sound understanding of the Standards for Professional Practice of Internal Audit of the Institute of Internal Auditors, auditing procedures, and techniques.
  8. Ability to quickly understand and critically analyze complex processes, identify and assess potential risks, and determine whether those risks are appropriately managed.
  9. Proficient in various audit techniques such as inquiry, walkthrough, validation, reperformance, sampling, analytics, problem-solving, and root cause analysis.
  10. Ability to interact, communicate, and manage senior and executive-level stakeholders both internally and externally is crucial.
  11. Prior experience in working with external regulators and an understanding of the Asia Pacific Regional Regulatory framework will be highly preferred.
  12. Commitment to self-development, open to constructive feedback, and actively seeking opportunities to capitalize on strengths and address development areas.
  13. Intellectually curious, self-motivated, passionate, service-minded, culturally attuned, and flexible.
  14. Self-starter with ability to work both independently and in a team setting.
  15. Skilled at analysis/critical thinking.
  16. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (additional languages are a plus).
  17. Ability to handle multiple tasks and consistently meet established deadlines.
  18. Proficient with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, Outlook, MS Team, IBM Open Pages, ACL, or similar audit tools.
  19. Skilled at managing end-to-end projects and ensuring timely delivery to meet deadlines.
  20. Occasional business travels depending on business needs.


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