Lead Internal Auditor

Lead Internal Auditor

Work involves leading and conducting internal audit assignments, up, and projects, under the direction from the Head Group Internal Audit, supports the supervision tasks during the audit assignment fieldwork. This involves complex and professional level internal auditing work and maintaining all organizational and professional ethical standards.

SCOR has one Group Internal Audit (GIA) located in Paris, Zurich, New York, London, and Singapore. GIA Singapore performs audit assignments primarily for Life, P&C and general operations, based in the Asia Pacific region (including Singapore, Beijing, Hong-Kong, Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, Mumbai).

**Responsibilities**

**Key duties and responsibilities**
- Based on the assignment objectives, develops the audit strategy and preliminary risk assessment, and audit work program
- Conduct interviews, analyse documents, develops and administer surveys, compose summary memos, and prepares working papers aligned with the audit working framework
- As part of the audit scope defined, analyse how risks are being mitigated and identify related issues and their components: criteria, conditions, causes, consequences, corrective actions i.e., recommendations, by reviewing processes, procedures and systems, testing transactions and analysing results and supporting evidence and documenting the audit working papers accordingly,
- Communicates the audit results via oral presentation and written correspondence and reports, to management.
- Have the ability to lead and supervise of the other auditors assigned, and reviews the accuracy, quality and completeness of the work and deliverables produced.
- Participates to the works related to the recommendations follow-up.

Throughout the assignments and as part of the department's activities:

- Acquires and maintains the holistic view and an understanding of the internal audit role in the company's governance, risk, compliance and internal control framework.
- Contributes to internal discussions related to the annual audit plan on the region as triggered by the Regional Head.
- Assist Regional Head in managing audit timeline and continuous improvement in GIA methodology, reporting and use of audit tools/ data analytics.
- Develops and maintains productive objective relationships with stakeholders and team members, aligned with the role of GIA and with a mindset to add value, through individual contacts and group meetings.
- Develop initiative and judgement under general supervision of the Deputy Head
- Commits to pursue professional development opportunities, including external and internal training and professional association memberships, and shares information gained with co-workers.

**Qualifications**

**Experience**
- Significant audit experience with at least 7 years with a multinational company, preferably within insurance / reinsurance, bank/ financial sector and/or audit firm. Experience performing IT or Actuarial audit is highly favourable.
- University degree in Accounting/Finance, Actuarial, Audit, IT, Risk Management / Compliance or other related industry. Pursuit of certifications such as CIA, CPA, CISA, and other relevant credentials related industry.

**Competencies**
- Keep abreast of relevant corporate and professional topics, and deep understanding of SCOR's strategy, organization, business and operations
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, language Skills (English is a must, additional language skills in Mandarin/ Korean are beneficial to liaise with local stakeholders.)
- Ability to understand complex business processes and interactions, good capacity to analyse risks by considering both the strategy adopted by the company and the business environment and exercising judgment when taking decisions / alerting the supervisors.
- Ability to organize the audit steps executions pragmatically, timely, efficiently and independently, maintaining the required quality level in analysis and working papers documentation, and supervise internal auditors' part of the assignment.
- Ability to articulate and write accurate, clear, and complete deliverables (work papers, audit reports, follow-up reports).
- Highest degree of ethics and integrity.
- Skill to communicate openly and clearly, verbally and in writing and readiness to hold challenging discussions, and to suggest recommendations and assess corresponding management action plans.
- Microsoft Suite (incl. Excel, Worlds, PowerPoint), Data Analytics (IDEA or equivalent)

**About Us**

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry - actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core v