Audit Strategy
• Apply portfolio and sub portfolio assurance priorities to individual audit engagements, ensuring audit objectives are aligned to key business risks, regulatory expectations, and agreed assurance focus areas.
• Identify and escalate emerging engagement level risks, delivery constraints, and systemic themes through established governance and audit leadership channels.
Audit Planning & Design
• Lead the planning and design of audit engagements through risk assessment, walkthroughs, scope definition, and the development of Risk and Control Matrices (RACM), audit programmes, and data requirements.
• Ensure audits are risk based, appropriately scoped, executable within agreed timelines and resources, and aligned to Group Internal Audit methodology, IIA Standards, and quality requirements.
Audit Advisory & Partnering
• Lead engagement level stakeholder interactions, including kick off, walkthrough, and close out discussions.
• Manage auditee expectations, document requests and requirements, scope and findings discussions professionally, demonstrating understanding of business objectives, client impact, and commercial context.
• Provide constructive challenge while maintaining audit independence, credibility, and professionalism across the audit lifecycle.
Audit Execution
• Accountable for the end to end execution of audit fieldwork across business as usual processes, programmes, digital initiatives, and complex change environments.
• Apply data analytics and test automated controls as part of audit execution.
• Direct and coordinate audit team activities to ensure disciplined execution of audit programmes, validated evidence, robust workpaper standards and appropriate addressing of review notes.
• Manage engagement productivity and efficiency by managing timelines, budgets, and delivery risks, escalating issues and blockers timeously.
