Manager, Internal Audit - Global Markets, Risk & Finance (GMRF)

How You Succeed

To succeed in Group Audit at OCBC, one must combine critical thinking with a keen eye for detail. Build strong stakeholder relationships, ask the right questions, and challenge assumptions. Leverage data analytics for sharper insights and stay updated on emerging risks and trends. Managing multiple priorities, adapting to complex situations, and maintaining independence are key. Above all, resilience and clear verbal and written communication enable one to navigate challenges and consistently deliver high‑quality, impactful audit outcomes. 

Who You Work With

Group Audit is all about oversight. Gaining experience of the bank in its entirety. Gathering insight. Building Risk and Controls expertise. Advising leadership. You might join us in Global Markets, Risk and Finance Audit, Credit Risk Audit, Investigation, Professional Practices and Governance or Audit Analytics. But wherever you are, your work with clients from around the world drives innovation and makes audit an artform.

What you will be doing:

Deliverables Management

• Participate in group-wide and regulatory audits in the respective areas of markets and products, risk and capital, or finance, and complete them within the assigned timeline.

• Proactively support the audit team lead in planning group-wide and regulatory audit engagements, including audit planning, scoping, and risk assessment.

• Provide regular and prompt updates to the audit team lead on progress of the audit engagement and the issues identified.

• Assess and evaluate the Group’s governance, risk management and internal controls over the activities and processes carried out by the business, risk and finance units, and identify and assess their deficiencies.

• Prepare the workpaper documentations that can support the assessments made in the audit engagements.

• Proactively support the audit team lead in preparing audit report that communicates the audit outcome, opinion, and issues in a concise and easy to comprehend manner.

• Explore and implement initiatives in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of conducting audits through the use of audit and data analytics.

Stakeholder Management

• Engage the auditees proactively to communicate the identified issues during the audit engagement and work with them to agree on the appropriate remediation actions and timeline.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree minimally, preferably qualification in CIA or CPA.

• Basic written, verbal communication and presentation skills.

• ECF in AML/CFT at Core Level is preferred

The ideal candidate should meet the following requirements in at least one of the following areas:

a) Markets and products

• Basic understanding of the front-to-back trade and sales lifecycles, treasury and investment processes, valuation and reserving processes, and corresponding controls.

• Basic understanding of various asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives.

• Basic knowledge of regulations relevant to sales and trading activities.

• At least two years of experience in auditing the above-mentioned areas.

b) Risk and capital

• Basic understanding of the processes of managing the capital, balance sheet, market risk, credit portfolio risk, counterparty credit risk and sustainability, and corresponding controls.

• Basic knowledge of the regulatory requirements

• Basic knowledge of the measurement/ quantification of the financial risks and corresponding validation of the risk models.

• At least two years of experience in auditing the above-mentioned areas. 

c) Finance

• Basic understanding of the budgeting and planning processes, finance and tax processing and operation processes, and corresponding controls.

• Basic knowledge of banks’ statutory and regulatory reporting requirements.

• At least two years of experience in auditing the above-mentioned areas.