AddressAt Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
1 . Strategic Leadership
- Collaborate with the GHIA to develop and implement risk-based audit plans tailored to regional operations, ensuring alignment with company objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Provide guidance and direction to audit team members.
- Proactively assist the GHIA in producing papers for Board / Committees and working group).
2 . Risk Assessment and Audit Planning
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of regional operations to timely identify risks and key areas of focus for Internal Audits.
- Develop detailed audit plans, including scope, objectives, and methodologies and detailed work programs.
- Coordinate with external auditors and regulatory agencies as needed to support audit activities.
3. Audit Execution and Reporting
- Execute audit engagements from end to end, conducting interviews, analysing data, evaluating controls to assess their adequacy, implementation and operating effectiveness and perform detailed testing procedures.
- Monitor the status of audit recommendations and follow up with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution of identified issues and deficiencies and proactive escalation as needed.
4. Continuous improvement
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.
- Implement best practices and contribute to the development and enhancement of Internal Audit methodologies and approach.
Champion a culture of transparency, integrity, and accountability.
5. Stakeholder Engagement and relationship management
Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders across regional offices, including regional leadership, local senior management, business unit leaders, and support functions.6. Regional Compliance
- Stay abreast of regulatory changes and industry trends impacting the insurance sector.
- Actively liaise with subject matter experts (internal and external) to ensure compliance with regional regulations and Lockton policies and procedures, providing guidance to business units on adherence to relevant standards.
Qualifications and / or Experience
- Fully qualified ACCA/ ACA
- Significant post-qualified relevant professional audit/ finance experience (this can include some years of audit related experienced within a big 4 or large Insurance broking Internal Audit function).
- Experience in managing audit teams.
- Strong understanding of the principles and application of good corporate governance, business and operational risk and control processes and procedures.
- Strong knowledge of assurance and audit procedures, including risk driven audit planning techniques and methods used to examine, verify and analyse business and financial operations, information, records, statements and reports, and the requirements of the "Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing".
- Strong knowledge of the principles, procedures and techniques of accounting, and of financial records and transactions.
- Good knowledge of the principles of information technology to conduct assurance activities related to the General computer environment and application controls.
- Experience in data analytics applied to auditing.
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Outlook) or similar software applications.
Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.
At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learns from, celebrates and thrives because of our breadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.
Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 10,000+ Associates doing business in over 100 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.
At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.
At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.
We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.
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