Head, Professional Practice and Governance Audit

WHO WE ARE: As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here. Why Join Join OCBC to be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation that values innovation and collaboration. In Group Audit, you’ll enjoy a unique perspective across the OCBC Banking Group, gaining insights into diverse functions while driving impactful change. It’s an opportunity to strengthen governance, assess risks, and contribute to OCBC’s resilience and OneGroup vision. With continuous learning opportunities, it’s a rewarding role for those passionate about making a difference How you succeed To succeed in Group Audit at OCBC, one must combine critical thinking with a keen eye for detail. Build strong stakeholder relationships, ask the right questions, and challenge assumptions. Leverage data analytics and generative artificial intelligence (AI) /agentic AI solutions for sharper insights and stay updated on emerging risks and trends. Managing multiple priorities, adapting to complex situations, and maintaining independence are key. Resilience and effective communication will help navigate challenges and deliver impactful, high-quality audit outcomes. What you do Strategic Management • Drive Group Audit’s strategic agenda by translating the Division’s strategy, innovation priorities and business management objectives into practical governance, methodology, reporting and operating disciplines. • Establish strategies to ensure that the Professional Practice and Governance team adopts and implements leading practices to aid Group Audit in delivering its mission and vision. • Develop and maintain the Internal Audit Charter to establish the terms of reference for Group Audit by defining the purpose, authority and responsibility of the internal audit function within OCBC Banking Group. • Ensure Group Audit’s stature, organisation, strategy and resources are aligned with the OCBC Banking Group’s strategic objectives and corporate governance, and take into consideration changes in stakeholders’ expectations, emerging trends and leading practices in internal auditing. People Management • Lead, motivate and manage the department to ensure they have sufficient knowledge, skills and experience, and fulfil the key attributes of internal audit profession, i.e. professional ethics, professional competence, due professional care, independence and objectivity. • Set measurable key performance indicators for audit teams that will enable the Division to meet or exceed its mission and goals. • Develop guest auditor programmes to provide learning opportunities for guest auditors to better understand audit requirements and process as well as strengthen their risk awareness and control consciousness; and conversely to encourage the guest auditors to contribute business perspectives and practical balanced approaches to OCBC’s auditing process. • Lead by example by modelling OCBC’s desired behaviours, so that staff are inspired to do the same • Champion a prudent risk and compliance culture that promotes good ethics, accountability and good conduct among staff. • Cultivate a conducive environment that allows staff to learn, grow and consistently exhibit the core values of OCBC. Internal Audit Practice Management • Develop and maintain audit methodology, standards and practices that are relevant to the Banking Group and take into consideration leading practices in internal auditing. • Continuously benchmark internal audit practices to ensure leading practices are established. • Develop and implement a quality assurance and improvement program to assess Group Audit’s conformance with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, and effectiveness and efficiency of audit execution, and put in place measures to address any gaps and enhance the internal audit practices. • Own and maintain Group Audit’s methodology framework, standards, practice guides and related methodology documents. • Partner audit teams, audit analytics team and strategy & transformation team to develop practice guides, auditing approaches, writing guidance, methodology clinics and digital solutions that improve audit quality, consistency, effectiveness and efficiency. • Act as process owner for methodology-related digital, automation and AI initiatives within Group Audit, defining requirements and working with audit teams and technology partners to embed improvements in audit quality, governance reporting, knowledge management and workflow efficiency. • Act as process owner for the audit management platform, covering business requirements, methodology alignment, data quality, workflow design, user adoption, system enhancements and governance over platform changes. • Drive Group Audit’s methodology learning and capability-building agenda by overseeing training programmes, methodology briefings, audit clinics and knowledge-sharing sessions that strengthen audit quality, consistency, professional competence and adoption of updated practices. Deliverables Management • Formulate an annual audi…