Senior Risk and Internal Audit Manager

The Senior Risk and Internal Audit Manager assists with an independent, objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the execution of the duties across the business and financial operations of the Group; and ensures that Risk and Internal Audit are aligned with the industry best practices. This position has an overall responsibility for helping head of department in ensuring the effectiveness and adequacy of risk management, internal controls, and governance processes and ensuring that roles, responsibilities, and results are efficiently coordinated for optimizing the effectiveness of risk management, internal controls and overall governance of the Group.

• Maintain a motivated, engaged and competent team throughout Risk and Internal Audit, by properly communicating priorities and objectives, managing performance, and providing ongoing training to achieve department’s objectives.
• Assist the GCRIAO in developing and delivering a training program to all employees, targeting the elements of the compliance program and ensure organization-wide knowledge and compliance with pertinent federal and state standards.
• Resource planning and effectively leading Risk and Internal Audit team to ensure timely delivery of audit activities while taking into consideration the impact of resource limitation.
• Prepare and consolidate Risk and Internal Audit’s budget in line with PIH’s annual business plan with the directions of management.
• Prepare annual risk-based audit plan with a multi-year schedule and design the annual work plan reflecting the highest risks to be monitored as per the business needs and requirements.
• Prepare detailed audit programs and tailor them to each entity to ensure that appropriate tests or activities are carried and guarantee that the audit techniques employed would result in the accomplishment of the defined audit objectives and submit them for management approval.

• Closely monitor all audit activities including performance, financial, compliance and special audits in all business units within the Company to identify key risks and controls and ensure documentation of the testing according to departmental standards and the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
• Identify and address the key risks facing the Group, advise on the implementation of systems to minimize financial, operational and governance risks and initiatives to protect against fraud and theft of the organization's assets.
• Assist in establishing standards of performance for audit activities, constant monitoring against these standards, participation in technology initiatives and using data analytics to improve the quality of audits performed and increasing the department’s ability to serve management.
• Manage the audit team in the examination of financial statements to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with applicable standards and regulations and investigation of account books, statements, ledgers, and accounting systems to ensure efficiency and the use of accepted accounting procedures.
• Ensure that audit reports to be delivered to the leadership are complying with the provisions, taking into consideration root causes of compliance issues in findings and recommendations, provide management with suggestions on practical solutions that facilitate the decision-making process.

• Assist in forming an objective opinion over the policies, systems, processes and procedures based on reviews and observations to identify potential areas for improvement to ensure risk is mitigated in the best possible way.
• Ensure that all objectives, methodologies and expected results…