Job Description

Overview: (Core accountabilities; aims of position; specific responsibilities)

Ø Ensure overall responsibility of the management, organisation, steering and planning the Audit activities.
Ø Ensure harmonious management of both human and material resources of the Audit entity.
Ø Ensure the establishment and achievement of the Annual Audit Plan and follow up the recommendations implementation issued.
Ø Respond to ad hoc requests from Executive management.
Ø Contribute actively to provide an assurance on the degree of risk management within the audited activities.
Ø Work towards improving Bank’s operations and processes and creating added value.
Ø Manage relationship between audit staff and auditees.

Responsibilities: (Day-to-day duties; job process; “typical day”
Ø Consolidate action plans, progress reports and recommendations following-ups of the Audit entity.
Ø Designate teams and monitor the progress of the mission’s various phases.
Ø Ensure continuous optimisation of the Audit entity organisation and skills development of the auditors.
Ø Approve training schedule for the Audit staff and follow up its implementation.
Ø Hold briefing sessions with the Internal Audit staff.
Ø Follow up the recommendations implementation on missions performed.
Ø Define, develop and harmonise methodological tools needed to carry out audits.
Ø Ensure audits achievement in accordance with International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
Ø Ensuring the Internal Control Quality and that its procedures and organisation allow checking and improving the safety and reliability of operations.
Ø Control the risk assessment system and evaluate risk levels actually incurred.
Ø Review reports and recommendations of audits.
Ø Ensure the compliance with Internal Audit requirements (Executive Management requirements; International Auditing Standards requirements, legal and regulatory requirements).
Ø Ensure compliance with procedures, rules and systems implemented.
Ø Approve the Documentation Process (Work Programs - Checks List – working paper)
Ø Report to stakeholders (regulators, Audit Committee, Board of Directors).
Ø Manage relationships with control structures or external audit (Bank of England, PRA, FCA, Statutory Auditors...)
Ø Carry out its activities in accordance with the Ethics Code of Internal Audit
HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIP Works with
Ø Audit Committee
Ø Board of Directors o Ø All BBI Plc’s entities.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Ø Ability to manage a team. Ø Motivation and coaching techniques. Ø Ability to unite the team around a common goal. Ø Mastery of the Audit function fundamentals and specifics. Ø Mastery of Bank’s activities and trades Ø Mastery of auditing standards (Norms, procedures, manuals, legal and regulatory framework ...). Ø Mastery of MS office and Bank’s information system. Ø Ability to handle conflicts situations. Ø Rigor, discipline and sense of responsibility. Ø Independence and impartiality. Ø Sense of initiative and Proactivity. Ø Negotiation skills. Ø Interpersonal skills. Ø Adaptability and listening ability. Ø Synthetic and analytic skills. Ø Independently.