Job Description:
We are committed to continuously improving governance practices and ensuring they align with business, stakeholders, and customers' needs. Our Financial Services team supports the Group's strategy of building tomorrow's bank today for our customers through a focus on three key priorities: trust, resilience, and capital generation.
Your role is to support the Group CFO, Executive Leadership Team, and the Board in making efficient and confident decisions on the investment portfolio and informing them on its effectiveness and efficiency.
Some key areas you will provide support and leadership across include:
* Oversee and deliver a professional and highly valued audit service to the business and Group's Audit & Risk Committees.
* Provide objective assurance on risk management to key customers (e.g. Group Executives and their leadership teams) to secure the financial wellbeing of the Bank's customers.
* Identify issues together with risk and commercial insights as part of high-quality audit reports, which help customers make a difference to their business.
Group Audit and Assurance Team:
The primary purpose of the Group Audit and Assurance team is to provide independent and objective assurance of the effectiveness of the Groups risk management, controls, and governance processes. As digital technology disrupts and transforms entire industries and ways of working, we are committed to keeping pace and continually reimagining ourselves with the latest global best technology and innovation.
To achieve this, we have increasingly embedded digital assurance into audit activities, injecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) into routine control testing and using digital tools to improve the employee experience. Our next phase of transformation is enabling continuous, data-driven assurance across the 3LoA.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist the EM in building a dynamic, risk-based Audit Plan and provide input to refresh it at least quarterly to capture key and emerging risks. In line with the CBA Internal Audit Methodology, oversee effective and efficient assurance to enable complete and collaborative delivery of the Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crimes Audit Plan. Effectively lead and participate in all aspects of audit (Planning, Fieldwork, Reporting, and Audit closure) and ensure timely delivery against set timelines, proactively identifying and addressing any issues through to audit closure.
Additional Requirements:
Administer audits within the audit electronic workflow system, including all aspects of high-quality working paper documentation, key date fields, audits status, and timely approval of key audit stage gates. Test Privacy Compliance requirements by re-engineering and identifying opportunities for process improvements in auditable areas. Draft and review issues based on issue writing standards, agree on factual accuracy with the Auditee. Support the EM in presenting Very High and High risk-rated issues to the Management. Prepare simple, pragmatic, and easy-to-read reporting for EM's review, including the audit reports and inputs to senior management and Board committees.
Desirable Qualities:
Excellent commercial acumen. Strong analytical and commercial skills, with demonstrated ability to draw insights from analysis. In-depth understanding of the risk and control environment together with a good working knowledge of relevant policies. Demonstrated information governance and risk management experience as well as knowledge of data protection and/or privacy. Familiarity with national and international privacy laws and regulations, with an understanding of the privacy regulations relevant to the Australian market.