Director, Audit Job Listing at Mastercard in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lum (Job ID R-244157)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Director, Audit Overview
At Mastercard, Internal Audit provides independent, objective assurance and advisory activities designed to add value and improve our operations and control environment. Internal Audit helps Mastercard accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the design and operating effectiveness of governance, risk management, and internal controls. Internal Audit's activities also assist the Board of Directors, Audit Committees, and management in fulfilling their oversight role, and statutory and fiduciary responsibilities.

The Regions & Markets team within Internal Audit provides third-line evaluation of controls for Mastercard's in-market operations ensuring alignment and compliance with local, regional and global frameworks, standards, and directives. Internal Audit also serves as a point of contact for regulators interested in third-line activities.

The Role
The Audit Director will lead and provide day-today support for audit projects, advisory projects, and risk assessments. The Audit Director will also be the point of contact for inquiries from external stakeholders (such as client banks) in the Asia Pacific region.

Key Responsibilities
• Plan, manage and execute multiple concurrent audit projects that are complex in nature including assessing risks, determining scope, defining test procedures, review test results and reporting IT, security, and operational audits within and across business lines, including assessing risks and determining scope of assigned audits
• Supervise staff on audit engagements providing guidance, oversight, workpaper review, and performance reviews
• Identify control gaps and process improvement opportunities, and evaluate compliance with legal, regulatory, operational and IT policies and procedures
• Consult with management in determining action items required for resolution of control issues, working directly with senior management as necessary
• Develop and communicate meaningful, value-added audit findings and reports
• Track and monitor management action plans to ensure sustainable resolution of control gaps
• Manage administration for assigned projects, including budget, scheduling and correspondence with auditees
• Contribute significantly to the planning and execution of the Audit Department's annual risk assessment process and development of the audit plan
• Manage communications and engagements with local stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region regarding the third-line structure, processes, procedures, governance
• Prepare and deliver reports for local stakeholders, as needed
• Lead efforts to implement Audit Department process improvement initiatives to make the audit function more effective and efficient
• Provide risk and control advice and education for the benefit of the organization, champion and advocate for strong risk management and governance controls, and partner with other control functions to strengthen the three lines of defense model

All About You
• Bachelor's degree in Business and Administration, or Information systems or Information Technology, or computer science, or engineering and equivalent.
• CIA, CPA, CISA or other professional audit-related certifications required
• Minimally 10 years of demonstrated experience in internal /external IT audit or business audit is a must,
• Prior experience working in Big 4 audit firms would be desirable.
• Excellent working knowledge of IT general computer controls and related operations, including mainframe, UNIX, HP Nonstop and Windows environments
• Broad understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Sound understanding of the Standards for Professional Practice of Internal Audit of the Institute of Internal Auditors, auditing procedures and techniques
• Ability to quickly understand and critically analyze complex processes, identify and assess potential risks, and determine whether those risks are appropriately managed
• Proficient in various audit techniques such as inquiry, walkthrough, validation, reperformance, sampling, analytics, problem-solving, and root cause analysis
• Ability to interact, communicate and manage Senior and Executive level stakeholders both internally and externally is crucial.
• Prior experience in working with External Regulators and an understanding of the Asia Pacific Regional Regulatory framework will be highly preferred.
• Commitment to self-development, open to constructive feedback, and actively seeking opportunities to capitalize on strengths and address development areas
• Intellectually curious, self-motivated, passionate, service-minded, culturally attuned, and flexible
• Self-starter with ability to work both independently and in a team setting.
• Skilled at analysis/critical thinking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (additional languages are a plus)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and consistently meet established deadlines
• Proficient with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, Outlook, MS Team, IBM Open Pages, ACL or similar audit tools
• Skilled at managing end-to-end projects and ensuring timely delivery to meet deadlines
• Occasional business travels depending on business needs

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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