# Head of Internal Audit, Hong Kong

**Company**: UOB Hong Kong
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Head of Internal Audit, Hong Kong is responsible for leading and overseeing UOB Hong Kong Branch’s internal audit functions, ensuring effective risk management, compliance, and control processes.

The role involves developing audit plans, conducting risk assessments, and managing audits of UOB Hong Kong Branch’s business and operational processes. The role ensures alignment with regulatory standards and internal policies, provides strategic insights to the UOB Hong Kong CEO and Management Committee, and works with external auditors. The role requires fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability within the internal audit team, reporting to Group Audit.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead the internal audit function for UOB Hong Kong, developing and executing the annual audit plan aligned with Group objectives and risk assessments.

- Oversee the identification and evaluation of key risks across the bank, ensure the audit coverage is adequate

- Direct and manage the execution of internal audits, ensuring audits are thorough, efficient, and compliant with professional standards

- Report audit findings, risks and recommendations to UOB HK CEO, Branch management, and relevant stakeholders in a timely and transparent manner.

- Ensure the audit team adheres to Group policies, professional standards, and regulatory requirements, maintaining high-quality audit practices

- Lead, mentor, and develop the internal audit team, fostering continuous improvement, skill-building, and knowledge sharing

- Collaborate with Branch management and key functions to enhance risk management, internal controls, and governance across UOB Hong Kong

- Manage the internal audit function’s budget and resources efficiently, ensuring that audits are adequately staffed and supported

- Maintain effective relationships with regulators, external auditors, Group Audit and other relevant parties, ensuring cooperation and alignment on audit matters

**Job Requirements**

- Degree in Business Management, Accounting, Finance, or related disciplines

- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in audit or risk related, with 8 years of management experience in banking industry

- Good knowledge of business management, accounting, economics, and finance as well as exposure to different lending situations

- Extensive knowledge of banking products and operations, including lending, treasury, derivative, investment, and other core business

- Competence in communication, including flexibility and resourcefulness in negotiation

- Ability to analyse and consolidate complex information into meaningful insights and recommendations

- Proven experience in leading and managing an Internal Audit function

## Skills

### Required
- Business Management
- Accounting
- Finance
- Risk Management
- Internal Audit
- Communication
- Analytical skills

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