Assistant Vice President, Audit

2 weeks ago


Singapore Singapore Life Ltd. Full time

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department
- Internal Audit
- Job posted on
- Mar 07, 2025
- Employee Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Experience range (Years)
- N.A

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company, offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers control over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives.

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability.

The merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was announced in September 2020 and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in Singapore in a deal valued at S$3.2 billion. It was the largest insurance deal in Singapore at the time.

Singlife was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Life in March 2024, one of Japan’s leading life insurers, which valued Singlife at S$4.6 billion, making the transaction one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia.

**Role Attributes**:
Internal Audit’s purpose is to strengthen the Singapore Life Holdings Pte. Ltd. and its subsidiaries (the “Group”) ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the Board, Audit Committee (AC) and Senior Management with independent, risk-based, and objective assurance, advice, insight, and foresight. Internal Audit (IA) does this by evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of the governance, risk management and control processes including compliance with laws and regulations, and adherence to established policies. It also assesses whether significant risks are appropriately identified, adequately managed, and appropriately reported by the management and Risk function.

This Audit Assistant Vice President role is to support the IA team in the fulfilment of the mandate in the Audit Charter authorised by the AC.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support the delivery of an appropriate risk-based audit plan, based on a detailed understanding of risks facing the business for the area of responsibility and for relevant themed reviews
- Participate in or lead (where appropriate) audit engagements covering the audit cycle end-to-end including planning, fieldwork and reporting.
- Deliver high quality working papers that support the final audit opinion
- Identify areas for improvement in the operation of the business units
- Communicate audit issues and results concisely and succinctly to management and influence management on the remedial actions.
- Deliver high quality objective and concise audit reports
- Adhere to the internal audit methodology requirements
- Build an effective partnership with management and other control partners to influence an effective control framework
- Own the interaction with business management for issue tracking and closure
- Validate the remediation of audit issues raised
- Manage individual time budgets for audits assigned
- Contribute to the production of reports to Internal Audit key stakeholders (e.g. Audit Committees, Risk Committees, and Board Committees)
- Perform continuous monitoring, engage with stakeholders and stay up to date on key developments impacting the business risk profile including changes in business strategy, regulatory / industry standards.
- Support the audit risk assessment process to drive the appropriate audit plan
- Adhere to the IA Charter and conform with the mandatory elements of the IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework
- Contribute to wider IA initiatives and additional designated roles if/where appropriate or assigned
- Keep abreast of own professional development to enhance one’s skills and competence

**Team**:

- This role reports to the Audit Executive Director and will be required to work collaboratively with members of the IA team.

**Requirements**:
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in internal/external audit /risk/ compliance in financial services industry. Experience in financial advisory activities will be preferred.
- Mature understanding of risk and controls, strong analytical skills and ability to drive appropriate management actions to mitigate risks.
- Knowledge of insurance and compliance related risks will be preferrable
- Sound project management skills in leading or supporting complex technical and business reviews
- Experience leveraging data and audit



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