Head of Audit - Wealth Management - Barclay Simpson Associates Limited

Barclay Simpson is a specialist 'corporate governance' recruitment firm. We are dedicated to recruiting risk, compliance, legal, internal audit and information security professionals at mid to senior management levels. Having been established since 1989 we have developed an authoritative knowledge of our market allowing our consultants to offer objective guidance to candidates and clients in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. www.barclaysimpson.com www.barclaysimpson.com.hk 

Our client is a global banking group. It is currently seeking a senior audit professional to lead the internal audit provision for its wealth management business in Australia and New Zealand. This role will be accountable for ensuring appropriate and timely assessment of the risks and controls, designing assurance activities and co-ordinating its delivery.

Responsibilities will include:

Development of Internal Audit budgets and delivery to budget and time frames
Effective design of assurance activities to enable IA to effectively meet its objectives
Develop and obtain buy-in for both the completion of audits and implementation of subsequent recommendations to create improvements in the way business is managed
Owning relationship with the business and developing protocols for these relationships. Raise the standard of customer experience and create audit to be seen as integrated business partner.
Understand the business and its forward agenda, ensure adequate knowledge sharing to pick up all relevant angles and to effectively share this knowledge with the broader team. Use this knowledge to effectively challenge the business and help to ensure that we have a role in ‘prevention’ as well as cure.
Ensure that senior stakeholders are kept informed of all significant risks and advice on improvements
Maintain clear and up to date analysis of the risk and control environment for the areas within the portfolio and use this to drive the annual plan and continuous assurance activities. Implement an improve approaches to assurance to ensure that it is relevant, timely and effective.
Oversee audit follow up and remediation activity, data quality and timely and insightful reporting and MIS for portfolio, including the monthly reporting process
Drive effective development, performance and management of audit team members. Motivate, guide and direct staff on audits which are leading to ensure achievement of both audit objectives and individual developmental initiatives.
Act as Performance Manager to Internal Audit Team Members and ensure that performance is actively managed and enhanced and that a development plan is implemented which develops skills and experience
Demonstrate and provide thought leadership to the wider Audit Team, in particular broader IA capability build in relationship management and business awareness.

For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact Russell Bunker on +852 2546 1956 or rb@barclaysimpson.com