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Main Duties:
1. Operational Oversight
· Direct and oversee day-to-day audit operations, ensuring all client assignments are progressing according to agreed timelines, budgets, and scope;
· Maintain a centralised assignment tracker covering status, deliverables, deadlines and responsible staff, with escalation protocols for delays;
· Supervise scheduling and resource allocation to ensure optimal use of team capacity;
· Oversee offsite operations at client premises, ensuring logistics, documentation, and reporting are properly managed;
· Ensure audit outputs (working papers, reports) are reviewed and approved before release to clients;
· Follow up with clients on pending documents, clarifications, or approvals required to complete engagements;
· Ensure continuity of audit operations especially for time-sensitive assignments;
· Regularly assess the efficiency of control systems, flag operational risks to senior management and recommend effective improvements;
· Develop and implement policies and procedures as may be required for the provision of the services provided by the Company;
· Act as the primary operational point of contact for client boards, MLROs and compliance teams during audit execution;
· Manage follow-ups on remediation actions post-audit, ensuring clients address deficiencies identified;
· Oversee timely and accurate preparation of reports for regulators, ensuring delivery of required documentation.
2. Strategic Development & Business Growth
· Identify opportunities for new service lines (e.g., thematic reviews, regulatory gap analyses, outsourced MLRO);
· Evaluate the operational feasibility of new ventures and ensure adequate capacity before execution.
3. Quality Assurance & Control Systems
· Design, implement and enforce daily monitoring controls to ensure assignments meet internal quality benchmarks;
· Conduct ongoing review of audit testing procedures, ensuring they remain consistent with methodology and regulatory expectations;
· Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or recurring issues in operations and initiate corrective measures.
· Report daily/weekly progress and operational KPIs to senior management.
4. Financial Oversight
· Monitor invoicing, collections, and engagement profitability to ensure assignments are financially sustainable;
· Authorise and track expenditure related to assignments (e.g., travel for offsite audits, software licences, external consultants);
· Provide regular financial oversight reports to senior management, highlighting delays in collections or unprofitable engagements.
5. Team Supervision
· Assign tasks to team members, monitor daily progress, and provide on-the-spot guidance where required;
· Review staff outputs, ensuring quality and consistency across working papers and reports;
· Conduct daily/weekly operational meetings with audit staff to track progress and address blockers;
· Oversee performance, identify skill gaps and organise targeted training or mentoring to strengthen delivery capacity.
6. Training & Capacity Building
· Lead internal training sessions to build technical audit and compliance expertise within the team;
· Deliver external client training programs on AML/CFT obligations, audit findings, and best practices, as and when required;
· Evaluate training effectiveness and update programs in line with regulatory changes and evolving AML/CFT risks;
· Mentor and develop audit staff through ongoing supervision and knowledge-sharing;
· Maintain an internal knowledge base of evolving typologies, regulatory circulars, and industry best practices;
· Brief senior management and staff regularly on emerging risks and compliance expectations.
7. Additional Duties
· Undertake other cognate duties assigned by senior management, particularly where operational coordination is required;
· Attending client meetings as and when required;
· Reporting during Board meetings and at frequent dashboards of the Company.
Qualifications:
· Degree in Law/ Finance/ management or other related qualifications.
· Minimum 7 years of experience as an auditor;
· Prior experience in an audit firm would be an advantage;
· Strong knowledge of industry processes and regulations;
· Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities;
· An analytical mindset with excellent organizational skills.