Senior Audit Manager (Corporate / Commercial Banking) at Stanbic IBTC Bank

Stanbic IBTC Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.

The Risk & Compliance teams at Standard Bank provides the essential foundations for our constantly evolving range of financial products and services. Risk is often the business unit that acts as the vital link in the powerful relationships we enjoy with our clients worldwide, and this division is now seeking an exceptional Senior Audit Manager to help us build on our success. Because you will work with colleagues across the business, you need to be an independent thinker, with exceptional analytical and communication skills, as you will organise and negotiate measurable solutions to fulfill challenging targets, and support our corporate business objectives

We are recruiting to fill the above position of:

Job Title: Senior Audit Manager (Corporate / Commercial Banking)

Job ID: 12552
Location: Nigeria

Position Description
The Senior Audit Manager will lead the robust audit risk assessment of:

• Commercial / Corporate Banking including Credit;
• Trade and Receivable Finance (TRF),
• Asset management including Payments and Cash Management (PCM) and
• Branch Internal Financial Controls.

This involves the identification and evaluation of top level risks; the design of workable audit steps to enable the testing of controls against identified risks; the completion of audit fieldwork including the identification of possible issues and root causes, and the presentation of issues and management action plans to address risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of/ prepare individual audit plans to ensure that the scope, approach, resourcing and logistics of an audit are appropriately planned.
• Assists in the development of the annual audit plan and supports completion of the plan.
• Grades the materiality of audit findings, identifies root causes and assesses the overall control risk and management awareness within the auditee business.
• Leads and motivates an effective team which completes audit work to a high standard and at all times maintains professional and constructive working relationships with auditee management.
• Cascades functional strategy and operational goals, and gains commitment to them.
• Maintains leading edge knowledge of best practice within audit, financial services and in the risk environment.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Experience working in relevant environment/s, i.e. track record of interaction with Senior Stakeholders
• Past working experience in a relevant role, i.e. audit expertise in one or more aspects of the Commercial Banking business (e.g. relationship management, Trade and Receivable Finance, Payments Cash Management, client implementation, credit.
• Availability to undertake the travel required for this role, i.e. global travel required, 8-12 weeks a year in blocks of 1,2 and 3 weeks.
• Role relevant qualifications i.e. Professional Accounting/Audit qualification (ACA, ACCA) is a must.
• Past working experience in a relevant role, i.e. experience of risk-based auditing in a globally matrixed organisation is desirable but not essential.
• A track record of gaining an understanding of customers' needs and delivering excellent customer service
• A flexible and adaptable approach to change and will support others to respond in a similar way.
• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field.

Required Competencies

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
• Build effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same.
• Experience of creating and deploying comprehensive business/operating plans, which consistently deliver desired results.
• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes.
• Demonstrable experience in coaching and mentoring younger auditors.

Application Closing Date
17th February, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
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