Senior Internal Audit Executive

Job Summary

We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Internal Audit Executive to support the execution of risk-based internal audits across business, operational, regulatory, and technology functions. The role involves planning and conducting audit engagements, evaluating internal controls, identifying risks, preparing audit reports with practical recommendations, and working closely with stakeholders to ensure timely remediation, while supporting the organization's governance, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives within a dynamic FinTech environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead audit engagement with engagement from planning, fieldwork, preparing audit observation and communicate recommendations to respective relevant personnel.
• Draft comprehensive audit reports that include key findings, recommendations for improvement, and corrective actions for management to address identified issues.
• Review data and conduct analysis on identified areas and make necessary recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely resolution taken by management.
• Ensure all relevant working paper inclusive audit program maintained in respective achieve file for reference and quality assessment.
• Assist Head of Department prepare meeting material for Management Monthly meetings whenever required.
• Supports team in preparing for the Audit Committee Meeting Deck and Minutes of Meeting.
• Keep abreast of changes in regulations, audit standards, and best practices to ensure the internal audit function remains effective and compliant by attending relevant workshops/ webinar/ conference.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/ finance /IT/ Information Security or a related field.
• Familiar with Malaysian Financial Services Industry regulation (eg. BNM, SC, PayNet)
• Able to draft audit programme to meet audit objective and identified risk.
• Keep attention to probe details through data analysis.
• Able to work with less supervision and communicate with cross-department.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple audit assignment simultaneously.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience governance role in regulatory / information technology/ payment processing related.
• Experience in continuous auditing or data analytics.
• Hold/pursue study in professional Certification (eg. CIA, CA, CPA, CISA, etc.)