Auditor - Functions, GIAI Nepal

Job Description

Job Summary

Group Internal Audit (GIA) is looking for a motivated Auditor to join our team in Nepal, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening risk, governance, and compliance. This is an opportunity to launch or pivot into a career in financial crime and compliance auditing—even without prior experience in the field. You’ll gain exposure to critical audits in Nepal, collaborate with global teams and develop expertise in identifying and mitigating financial crime and compliance risks. Strong analytical skills—or keen interest in developing them—are essential. The role provides structured support to help you grow professionally in a dynamic and purpose-driven area.

GIA represents the third line of defence and provides independent assurance of the effectiveness of management’s control of business activities (the first line) and of the control processes maintained by the Risk Framework Owners and Policy Owners (the second line). GIA works with the Group's other control functions, such as Finance, Risk and Compliance, but does not place unqualified reliance on their work. GIA is an independent function whose primary role is to help the Board and Executive Management to protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the Group.

As defined in the Audit Charter, all staff in GIA must exhibit the highest level of professional objectivity in gathering, evaluating and communicating information about the activity or process being examined. They must make a balanced assessment of all the relevant circumstances and not be unduly influenced by their own interests or by others in forming judgments. GIA will adhere to the Definition of Internal Auditing, the Core Principles for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, Code of Ethics and the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing that are published by the IIA. It is expected that all members of GIA strive to operate as role models for the Group’s valued behaviours. GIA methodology has defined “Habits of a Human Auditor” which are aligned to the Group’s valued behaviours and communicated across the function.

Responsibilities

In addition to the responsibilities defined in the Audit Charter, to protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the Group. Auditors will contribute to the delivery of the GIA Strategy for their relevant portfolio - country audits in Nepal and Group Conduct and Culture risk portfolio – focusing on:

• Customer/ stakeholder experience.
• Effective Group change.
• Identifying Group efficiencies and avoiding disruption from audit.
• Acting as Team Member and taking responsibility for contributing to the delivery of high quality Supporting Function audits, whilst causing minimal disruption to the business.
• Role-modelling the valued behaviours and developing an environment in which positive behaviours are celebrated and poor culture is challenged.
• Executing assigned audit work, as well as the work carried out by the team, in an efficient and effective manner, within the given budget and timelines, and in line with GIA methodology standards.
• Clearly identifying the risks and impact of issues during issue writing, agreeing these issues with management and obtaining quality management action plans to mitigate the risks raised.
• Supporting GIA audit teams, by providing product knowledge and expertise for their audits relating to the individual’s area of responsibility.
• Validating issues: All audit issue action plans agreed during audit fieldwork should be tracked through to completion in accordance with methodology requirements.
  
  

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Audits assigned to the individual in the GIA audit plan should address the key risks identified in the detailed risk assessment and in the audit planning process and meet relevant regulatory requirements and expectations that are required to be covered by GIA.
• Ensure that audit team operates in line with the Audit Charter during engagements, remains independent from management and free from interference.
  
  

Business

• Effectively manage the cost of assigned audits within the allocated budget for their areas within audit engagements; and
• Identify and implement opportunities for cost savings and optimal productivity of assigned audit engagements
  
  

Processes

• Demonstrate sound knowledge of both business/technical areas and expert knowledge in the audit process, including the GIA system, so that audit work is carried out to a high standard that meets all methodology and GIA system requirements.
• Support adherence to the GIA methodology in all areas of the audit engagement, as well as raising awareness and understanding of the methodology.
• To act as Team Member on assigned audit work. Provide technical input and challenge on audit work being undertaken within the scope of assigned area of responsibility. This will include working with the audit team to produce outputs of high quality and address the areas of greatest risk.
• Monitor the implementation/delivery of the agreed issues/audit plans for the audits assigned, understanding the key risks arising, provide advice on resolution of issues to auditees/action plan owners and escalate audit findings that remain unresolved.
  
  

Analytics Responsibilities

• Apply data and analytics techniques during the audit cycle for better efficiency and effectiveness
• Contribute to the design and implementation of effective continuous monitoring and automated testing strategies using analytics
• Work with key stakeholders to understand data flow, data points for key systems relevant to the audit portfolio
  
  

People & Talent

• Share knowledge to increase specialism within the function.
• Influence change within the department by highlighting potential enhancements.
• Identify growth areas on an ongoing basis and identify how best to develop them.
• Identify and successfully complete key internal training for self-development.
• Facilitate the development of audit team members by recommending formal training to support GIA activities.
  
  

Risk Management

• Assist in the update of the assigned Continuous Risk Assessment on a regular basis to identify changes in risk profiles and document these in a timely manner, proposing changes to the assigned audit plan, as appropriate.
• Promote early identification and escalation of risks, issues, trends and developments to relevant stakeholders. Be prepared to raise issues/concerns outside the normal audit process.
• Adopt an anticipatory approach to risk assessment through stakeholder engagement and monitoring of the external environment to improve audit planning; and
• Review MI and reports regularly to keep up-to-date with key trends within the business and audit deliverables.
  
  

Governance

• Manage the relevant portfolio stakeholders and establish good working relationships to help the businesses or functions improve the control environment and keep updated with changes impacting their risk profile.
• Use networks and relationships to build engagement and achieve results.
• Escalate delays in the execution of audit work, both to auditee management and GIA Management.
• Be able to clearly explain issues identified along with the risks and root causes to GIA and business management, using language designed to be understood by non-experts; and
  
  

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
  

Key Stakeholders

• Designated business stakeholders, typically related to assigned portfolio; and
• GIA stakeholders – team leaders, team members, team managers, Product, Functional, Country and Regional Heads of Audit.
  
  

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Compliance, Financial Crime and Conduct Risk portfolio (CFCR, Group level) and in the country of Nepal;
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience in audit, governance, risk or in a business environment.
• Professional audit certification preferred.
• Working experience with analytics/visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, or similar tools, and is able interpret and generate data insights using data visualisation.
• Certifications around analytics and AI/Gen AI will be an advantage.
• Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values
  
  

Candidate should be a Nepali citizen

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Internal Audit:
• Knowledge of and ability to conduct the evaluation of organizational effectiveness, operational control, and governance processes within the organization.
• Manage Risk
• Recognise the different risk types; Understand and follow the Risk Management Framework
• Risk Assessment
• Detects significant sources of actual and potential loss; Implement regular risk assessments according to guidelines and processes; Conduct testing to assess risks.
• Managing Regulatory Relationships
• Take accountability for meeting regulatory requirements / priorities and supporting regulatory relationships as appropriate in own role; Interpret regulatory requirements for internal stakeholders
• Applications and PC Skills
• Use relevant systems (e.g., core bank applications; core audit applications) required for own area; Perform more advanced Microsoft office product functions such as Excel, Power Point, Word, Power BI etc.)
• Governance, Regulation and Risk Management - Regulatory Compliance
• Understand key regulatory requirements; monitor compliance with various regulatory requirements
• Ability to work within a global team.
• Strong communicator, both written and verbal, with ability to clearly explain controls to be tested and risks identified to audit and business management
• Confident and courageous to raise and escalate ideas or concerns in a professional and timely manner
• Proactive, self-directed and able to work with minimum supervision
• Data analysis
• Data insights (generation and interpretation)
  
  

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
  
  

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.