Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing an independent cost effective and efficient internal audit service to all lines/businesses of the banks operations on Pan Pakistan basis.
- Conduct risk assessments and identify areas of potential risk and control weaknesses.
- Execute audit programs to evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls risk management and governance processes.
- Draft the audit proposal and auditing program and submit to Head internal audit for approval.
- Perform audit fieldwork including data collection analysis and documentation.
- Prepare detailed audit reports with findings risk implications and recommendations for improvement.
- Follow up on audit recommendations to ensure timely and effective implementation.
- Stay updated with industry best practices regulatory changes and emerging risks.
- Conduct special audits and investigations as required by senior management.
- To provide advice to the management on the adequacy and effectiveness of the real time control systems applied in relation to the operating activities.
- To provide internal audit service to all IT related operations of the bank to highlight IT related vulnerabilities and provision of recommendations to avoid future risk.
- To ensure compliance of the observations highlighted in the department/function wise audit reports and to issue a final verification report
- To report functionally to Internal Audit Head Pakistan Operations.
- To form the annual audit report on the basis of summarizing the implementation of annual audit work including summarizing and analyzing the problems found in audit project the key problems found in audit projects summarizing management experience and aspects to be improved in the work in the past year which shall be reported to Audit Department of HO
- To ensure that AML/CFT areas are covered as per the Audit plan.
- To make sure that the Audits processes are in alignment with the standard set forward in the Internal Audit charter and the guidelines issued by SBP.
- To ensure that quality assessment of Internal Audit is conducted by an approved external auditor within the time frame set forward by SBP.
- Coordinate the statutory audit of financial statement with external auditors.
- Other assignment distributed by Head Internal Audit.
Requirements:
Education: Minimum Graduation and professional certifications/qualifications such as ACA ACCA. FIA CIA.
Experience: 08 plus years of internal audit and internal control experience preferably within the banking industry
Language: English (written and spoken). Chinese (written and spoken) will be an added advantage
Knowledge & Skills: Communication skills report writing presentation skills attention to detail