Audit Business Operations Team Leader

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct risk assessments to identify priority areas and support the development of action plans.
• Ensure operational activities remain agile and responsive to changes in business strategy, processes, and risk priorities.
• Lead the development of risk-based audit plan for key business functions, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, emerging risks, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the end-to-end execution and monitoring of business audits, ensuring timely delivery, audit quality, and adherence to Internal Audit standards and IAD methodologies.
• Provide leadership and guidance to audit teams during planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases.
• Review workpapers and deliverables to ensure accuracy, completeness, and value-added insights.
• Lead verification exercises to ensure the accurate and effective implementation of corrective actions.
• Provide a periodic report to the Audit Committee and Board, highlighting audit outcomes, risk themes, and status of management actions.
• Serve as the primary relationship manager for business functions, engaging regularly with senior management to discuss audit plans, findings, and risk priorities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members within the business Audit function, fostering professional development and subject matter expertise.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, and responsiveness within the function.
• Assist senior leadership in shaping the strategic direction of the Internal Audit function, including resourcing, stakeholder engagement, and audit innovation

Key Accountabilities

• Guide, and assist employees by direct reports to perform their functional operations efficiently
• Supervise the team’s staff to ensure that they are appropriately motivated and trained and carry out their responsibilities to the required standards
• Evaluate employees’ performance with continuous feedback on their assigned targets
• Comply with communication and information sharing/handling policy to ensure confidentiality of the information and comply with all relevant risk and information security procedures to ensure operating within the acceptable risk levels
• Administer the development and implementation of the function’s policies, procedures, and processes covering all areas of the function’s activities to ensure the fulfillment of all work requirements
• Follow all relevant policies, procedures, and processes in order for the work to be carried out in a controlled and consistent manner

Job Requirements

Education and Certifications:

Bachelor Degree in Business, Accounting, IT, Finance or similar is required, Master Degree is preferred.

Professional Certifications are preferred

Knowledge and Experience:

4 + years of experience in internal auditing with leadership in business-focused audits.