Senior Manager, Internal Audit - Data Analytics
AIA
- Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support planning and implementation of the overall analytics and intelligence strategy within GIA.
- Identify top audit focus areas and drive the annual risk-based audit planning exercise.
- Craft and develop data analytical projects or continuous monitoring models/dashboards to suit the overall internal auditing framework, approach and methodology.
- Plan, lead and implement DA reviews according to established schedule and quality.
- Facilitate issuance of audit reports to management.
- Implement effective and continuous monitoring and develop overall audit strategies.
- Work with various audit teams to determine and meet their reporting and data analytics needs.
- Find opportunities to help and work across projects to optimise the operating processes through data analytics and statistical modelling.
- Expand insurance-business-related knowledge and familiarise with dataflow between systems
- Proactively contribute to the development of the team through mentor, training and providing timely feedback to junior staff.
- Deliver training or share knowledge of the data analytics skills to GIA members.
- Build a tool/platform to empower business auditors to conduct self-service data analytics
- Develop rapport with management through regular communication of changes in business operations, emerging risks and potential issues, etc.
- Identify performance improvement opportunities and industry standard processes for GIA, such as explore the use of new technologies to improve audit efficiency and expand audit coverage.
- A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics preferred
- 10 years+ of experience in a data analysis role preferably with internal audit, a risk function, consultancy, IT, and/or a control function in the insurance, financial or a related industry.
- Working knowledge with data analysis software; good understanding of data systems, data mining, data warehouse management, data query and coding language methods, such as SQL, SAS, ACL, IDEA, Tableau and/or various BI tools
- Familiar with application control audit methodology and common issues, and its use in conjunction with business audits
- Familiar with user requirements management, software development, application operation and maintenance, system construction or architecture design related areas
- Familiar with database technology, data security, dataflow tracking, relation analysis, data cleaning, and script optimizing methods
- Familiar with regulatory requirements and key risks in areas such as personal information protection and cross-border data transfer
- Good command of both oral and written English. Excellent presentation skills
- Proven problem solving skills, ability to analyse complex data, identify core issues, investigate, evaluate and reach appropriate conclusions