Audit Manager Legal Entities, Vice President

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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 Vice President , Audit Manager - Legal Entities - Hybrid (Internal Job Title: Audit Manager I - C13) based in Singapore.

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.

For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more.
  
  Coverage varies by country.
  
  
• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.
  
  
• We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work.
  
  In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world.
  
  

The Audit Manager - Singapore will be reporting to the Chief Auditor, South Asia, and Head of Audit, Singapore.

This position will focus on critical strategic and operational aspects of Internal Audit, encompassing:

• Strategic Reporting & Regulatory Engagement : Leading high-impact analysis for board and governance reporting and fostering strong relationships with regulators through quality deliverables.
  
  This includes developing a detailed understanding of Singapore Legal Entities and ensuring audit strategies and plans provide thorough, risk-based coverage for material risks from a Singapore Legal Entity perspective, including issue validation for regulatory and audit issues.
  
  
• Cross-Functional Leadership : Driving strategic alignment and advancing our people-centric goals within Internal Audit.
  
  This involves effectively partnering with product and function teams to ensure audit issues are appropriately tagged and provide additional perspectives from a Legal Entity perspective.
  
  
• Operational & Innovation Leadership : Acting as a trusted partner to identify priorities, champion process improvements, and optimize our Internal Audit operations.
  
  This includes collaborating with IA Methodology teams and other LE HOAs to develop a Legal Entity audit approach that ensures Singapore Legal Entity perspectives are considered in audit planning processes for global and regional audits.
  
  
• Audit Assurance & Issue Oversight : Identifying cluster-wide audit expectations and gaps, supporting the Chief Auditor in securing essential assurance, and overseeing the resolution of critical issues.
  
  This also involves providing regular review and audit oversight over critical remediation programs and tracking progress.
  
  
• Quality & Data Partnership : Collaborating with our Quality Assurance (QA) and Management Information (MI) teams to ensure data quality and address findings.
  
  This includes analyzing audit data from a Legal Entity perspective, ensuring corrections, and following up on errors.
  
  

In this role, you’re expected to have:

• Experience in working with global teams and dealing with integrated internal audit and assurance delivery.
  
  
• Experience developing audit assessments and testing criteria, tools, and methodologies.
  
  
• Experience in working with MI and managing large data sets to present information to management in the required/comprehensive format.
  
  
• Ability to execute concurrently on a portfolio of high-quality deliverables according to strict timetables.
  
  
• Prior experience of conducting risk-based audits and presenting results to management.
  
  
• Knowledge and experience of risk issue management criteria, tools, and methods.
  
  
• Experience and understanding of Singapore's regulatory environment and its impact on legal entities.
  
  

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:

Skills/Competencies:

• A confident individual.
  
  Able to analyze and think through issues; fluent in oral and written English; strong communication skills.
  
  
• Good numerical and analytical skills.
  
  Ability to use tools available to manage data, present it in the right format for management, and derive insights.
  
  
• Good interpersonal skills for interfacing with all levels of internal and external audit and management.
  
  
• Self-motivated and goal oriented.
  
  Sense of urgency in providing deliverables and evaluating priorities.
  
  
• Critical thinking is a key requirement of the role, as themes related to risks and issues around the organization will be identified and presented to key stakeholders.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent; Master’s preferred.
  
  
• Related certifications (CPA, ACA, CFA, CIA, CISA or similar) are a plus.
  
  Statistical, Computer Science or Computer Engineering qualifications will be an advantage.
  
  
• Valuing Diversity: Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce.
  
  Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organizational success.
  
  

Working at Citi is far more than just a job.

A career with us means joining a family of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe.

At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

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