Job description

Job Description:

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and analytical Auditor to join Group Internal Audit (GIA), supporting the Wealth & Retail Banking (WRB) portfolio. The role is responsible for delivering risk-based audits, providing independent assurance on key risks and controls, identifying opportunities for improvement, and supporting continuous monitoring activities. The successful candidate will use data-driven audit techniques, contribute to innovation within the audit function, and help strengthen the Bank’s risk and control environment.

Key Responsibilities

Audit Planning and Risk Assessment

• Support the development and maintenance of risk assessments and risk-based audit plans.
• Identify emerging risks, control weaknesses, and changes in the business environment requiring audit focus.
• Contribute to audit scoping, planning, and testing programmes.
• Provide insights to support audit prioritisation and coverage decisions.

Audit Delivery

• Deliver audit engagements in line with Group Internal Audit methodology and professional standards.
• Conduct fieldwork, review evidence, draft audit findings, and support audit report preparation.
• Ensure audits are completed within agreed timelines and quality standards.
• Promote efficiency, consistency, and continuous improvement in audit execution.

Issue Management and Validation

• Monitor audit issues and management action plans through to closure.
• Validate remediation actions to ensure root causes have been appropriately addressed.
• Escalate overdue, ineffective, or high-risk remediation matters where required.
• Provide guidance on evidence requirements and effective issue resolution.

Continuous Monitoring and Stakeholder Engagement

• Perform ongoing monitoring to identify emerging risks and control concerns.
• Build constructive relationships with stakeholders while maintaining independence and objectivity.
• Clearly communicate audit findings, risk impacts, root causes, and recommendations.

Analytics, Innovation and Data Insights

• Apply data analytics to enhance risk identification, testing coverage, and audit efficiency.
• Support the development of automated and data-led audit approaches.
• Use data visualisation and analytical techniques to identify trends, anomalies, and control indicators.
• Contribute to audit innovation, methodology enhancements, and digital transformation initiatives.

Non-Audit Activities and Departmental Contribution

• Support regulatory reviews, external audit engagements, and quality assurance activities.
• Contribute to audit committee, risk, and governance forum papers where required.
• Participate in knowledge-sharing, training, and cross-functional collaboration activities.
• Support annual planning, risk assessment updates, and continuous improvement initiatives.

People, Culture and Conduct

• Demonstrate professional scepticism, integrity, and the highest standards of ethical conduct.
• Take ownership of continuous professional development across audit, business, risk, and analytics disciplines.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and support the resolution of risk, conduct, and compliance matters.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Champion the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Maintain the highest standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, and business conduct.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies.
• Collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk and compliance concerns.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed the Group’s brand promise, Here for good, in daily activities.
• Undertake additional responsibilities as required under Group, Country, Business, or Functional policies.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of role requirements, regulatory expectations, and business developments.

Skills and Experience

• Audit Methodology and Audit Systems
• Risk Assessment
• Audit Planning
• Audit Fieldwork
• Audit Report Writing
• Stakeholder Management
• Continuous Monitoring
• Data Analytics and Insight Generation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Risk Management, Information Systems, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as:
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
  • Chartered Accountant (CA)
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
  • Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
  • Or other relevant audit, risk, or compliance qualifications.
• Membership of a recognised professional accounting or auditing body is advantageous.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

End Date: 26/08/2026

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.

Preferred candidate

Nationality

United Arab Emirates