Quality Assurance - TL, Internal Audit

Role Purpose: Lead the Quality Assurance & Improvement Program (QAIP) for Internal Audit, ensuing audits meet regulatory standards, IIA standards and internal methodology. Drive audit quality across planning, fieldwork, reporting, root-cause analysis, issue sustainability testing and stakeholder communication.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Design and execute the QAIP (ongoing internal assessments and thematic reviews).

·       Define quality criteria and checklists for review of audit reports.

·       Enforce consistency in scoping, testing, working papers and evidence standards across audits.

·       Review closure of audit findings.

·       Review audit planning documents (risk assessments, scoping matrices, sampling methodology).

·       Validate regulatory coverage for each audit.

·       Challenge sufficiency of sample size and testing depth.

·       Ensure scope exclusions are justified and centralized monitoring of decentralized activities is assessed.

·       Verify quality of root cause analysis, impact assessment and linkage to system / process control gaps.

·       Ensure repeat / persisting issues and sustainability testing of prior RAR observations are addressed.

·       Validate findings grading, recommendations and auditee response.

·       Update templates and audit methodology, embed data analytics, automated testing and control libraries.

·       Present QA dashboards, quality scores and systemic themes to HIA and Audit Committee.