Job Summary

Head of Audit for Standard Chartered Bank’s Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) in the Americas is responsible for leading a team of audit professionals to provide assurance over CIB activities. As a member of the GIA Americas Leadership Team, the role involves developing and implementing initiatives to enhance auditor efficiency and effectiveness. Head of Audit manages regulatory engagements, ensuring timely and accurate responses to inquiries, and oversees the delivery of high-quality audits with minimal business disruption. Additionally, the role involves finalizing audit issues and reports, ensuring audit work is executed efficiently, effectively, and in accordance with GIA methodology standards.

Group Internal Audit (GIA) represents the third line of defence and provides independent assurance of the effectiveness of management’s control of business activities (the first line) and of the control processes maintained by the Risk Framework Owners and Policy Owners (the second line). GIA works with the Group's other control functions, such as Finance, Risk and Compliance, but does not place unqualified reliance on their work. GIA is an independent function whose primary role is to help the Board and Executive Management to protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the Group.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute to the GIA risk assessment and development of an appropriate audit plan for portfolio.
Address the key risks identified in the detailed risk assessment and in the audit planning process, and meet relevant regulatory requirements and expectations.
Continually assess that the assigned audit plan remains relevant through the year as the risk profile of the business evolves, proposing changes as appropriate.
Ensure that their team carry out their roles in line with the Audit Charter and remain independent from management and free from interference.
Clearly explain the risks and impact of issues raised during testing to GIA and business management and obtain quality management action plans to mitigate the risks identified.
Role model the valued behaviours and develop and environment in which positive behaviours are celebrate and poor culture challenged.
Lead continuous monitoring of assigned country/portfolio areas, recording the outcome of the activities on GIA’s risk assessment of the business and the current audit plan. Raise issues and observations outside of formal audit work that arise as part of the continuous monitoring program.
Take responsibility for the implementation and support of department wide exercises such as annual planning, risk assessment and training.
Actively manage relationships with senior auditee management and stakeholders.
Support GIA audit teams by providing product/country knowledge and expertise for their audits relating to the individual’s area of expertise.
Attend and present at formal committees and Group meetings on behalf of GIA, as required, e.g. Governance Committees, Country Non Financial Risk Committees, CIB and Functional/Support Risk Committees.
Oversee the validation of audit and regulatory issues: Ensure that all audit issue action plans agreed during audit fieldwork are tracked through to completion in accordance with methodology requirements.

Effectively manage the cost of assigned audits within the allocated budget for audit engagements.
Identify and implement opportunities for costs savings and optimal productivity of assigned audit engagements.
Act as Team Manager on assigned audit work. This will entail managing the Team Leader and junior colleagues working on the audit to deliver the Audit Planning Memo and Controls documents, agree issues and actions plans with management and submission of the draft report to the Team Manager for review.
Provide clear guidance, detailed review and supervision of the team’s work so that audit deliverables meet quality standards and timelines in line with the GIA methodology.
Provide guidance on business/audit technical knowledge and management skills to Team Leaders and Team Members to enable them to effectively deliver their assigned contributions for an audit.
Provide technical input and challenge on audit work being undertaken within the scope of assigned product/country area of responsibility. This will include working with the audit team to produce high quality outputs which address the areas of greatest risk.
Support adherence to the GIA methodology in all areas of the audit engagement, as well as raising awareness and understanding of the GIA methodology.
Demonstrate sound knowledge of both business/technical areas and expert knowledge in the audit process.
Take the lead in presenting the draft report in the GIA report review process (to the tollgate or report reviewer)
Monitor the implementation/delivery of the agreed issues and action plans for the audits assigned, understanding the key risks arising, provide advice on resolution of issues to auditees/action plan owners and escalate audit findings that remain unresolved.

Key stakeholders

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with the US, Americas, CIB, Functions and EA management and business units which fall under portfolio responsibility.
Effectively manage external stakeholders such as regulators and reviewers.
Members of the US Risk Committee and Americas Risk Committee
CEO Americas
US Management Team
Members of the Global Business Management Team
Global, regional and country business heads and CEOs in Americas
Global, regional and country CROs
Federal Reserve Bank, New York
New York State Department of Financial Services
Local Regulators and their appointed representatives
External Auditors/ Professional Services Companies
Risk Committees and Forums
Group Head, Internal Audit
GIA COO team
Audit Committee and Local Audit Committee (where applicable)

Qualifications

Significant experience in either audit and/or risk management.
Demonstrable experience in Corporate and Institutional Banking, with knowledge of correspondent banking, trade finance and financial markets products.
Direct experience working with US banking regulators.
Strong leadership qualities, interpersonal and people management skills
Strong communicator, both written and verbal, with ability to influence senior management, stakeholders, peers and their teams.
Strong sense of integrity and independence with an ability to challenge.
Confident and courageous to raise / escalate issues in a pro-active, professional and timely manner.
Understanding of regulatory landscape in the US.
Professional certification preferred (i.e. CIA, CPA, CAMS, CFE etc.)
Ability to perform the role of a “Change Leader”
Ability to travel internationally from time to time to support GIA activities & delivery across the group

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 200,000 USD to 266,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.