Internal Audit Manager

About AXA Hong Kong and Macau

AXA Hong Kong and Macau is a member of the AXA Group, a leading global insurer with presence in 52 markets and serving 92 million customers worldwide. Our purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters.

As one of the most diversified insurers in Hong Kong, we offer integrated solutions across Life, Health and General Insurance. We are the largest General Insurance provider and a major Health and Employee Benefits provider. Our aim is to not only be the insurer to provide comprehensive protection to our customers, but also a holistic partner to the individuals, businesses and community we serve. At the core of our service commitment is continuous product & service innovation and customer experience enrichment, which is achieved through actively listening to our customers' needs and leveraging and investing in technology and digital transformation.

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AXA is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to promoting Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity, respect, and where individual differences are valued. We welcome and treasure diverse profiles to join our big family, and to build an inclusive culture together which allows everyone to maximise their personal potential.

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Responsibilities:

• Oversees the completion of all phases of the audit process for assigned multiple concurrent audits to the required Group and IIA standards.
• Maintains a strong understanding of key business, finance, and regulatory requirements for the area of the business covered including, emerging risks.
• Performs risk assessments for the area of the business covered, contributing significantly to the entity's annual internal audit plan
• Develop, maintain and enhance the skills and capabilities of your direct reports, empowering them, encouraging knowledge sharing and best practices
• Develops effective relationships with relevant management within the business areas covered.
• Works with management in tracking action plans to assist with timely resolution.
• Applies internal audit standards and best practice, ensuring application of GIA (group internal audit) standards/CAPT Methodology during audit reviews. Provides ideas and input to the continuous improvement of GIA processes
• Shares expertise within the wider Global Internal Audit family.
• Is responsible for their own professional development and pro-actively identifies relevant training and development needs, and develops their own professional network.
• Examine underlying business data supporting the audited processes for enriching decision-making on the approach, as well as to provide robust observations supporting the audit conclusions.

Qualifications:

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of internal audit working experience in insurance companies and excellent technical knowledge of the global internal audit standards.
• Ability to analyse data set through Excel, PowerBI or other analytic tools is preferred.

Soft skills:

• Management and leadership through team of professionals
• Work effectively alone or as part of a team
• Solves problems
• Thinks objectively demonstrating sound judgement
• Resilient under pressure
• Flexible and able to adapt to change
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrates empathy.
• Analytical with attention to detail
• Ability to influence senior levels of management, breaking down silos and sharing knowledge.
• Demonstrates strong behavioural skills: respect, humility
• Acts in line with the AXA values: Customer First, Courage, Integrity and One AXA
• Ability and desire to keep learning.

Language:

• Clear written and spoken English.
• Good in written Chinese