Senior Audit Manager


Company:: UBS AG - Investment Bank - US
Location:: New York City, NY
Job Type:: Full Time
Category:: Accounting


Posted:: 5/9/2013

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Job Description

Group Internal Audit (GIA) is an independent function that supports UBS in achieving its strategic, operational, financial and compliance objectives. We do this by assessing key processes as well as governance, risk management, and the control environment within all business divisions globally. We are independent in our work and report directly to the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Risk Committee.

GIA's structure consists of divisional audit teams throughout the world, reflecting UBS's business structure. We are looking for an outstanding professional to join our dynamic Corporate Center Audit (CCA) team in COO, Operational Risk Control (ORC) and General Counsel (GC) Audit team in New York or Stamford as a Senior Audit Manager. In this role you will leverage your understanding to plan, perform and report the results of Corporate Center audits.

Your main responsibilities are:

To act as a functional expert for the Corporate Center functions within the CCA COO, ORC and GC team, which include Legal, Compliance, ORC, Human Resources, Corporate Real Estate and Administrative Services, Supply and Demand Management, Outsourcing and other COO functions. You will (i) influence and help develop the audit approach to these functional topics, (ii) develop and maintain relationships with senior management in these functions, and (iii) provide technical expertise on these topics to the divisional audit teams.
As a functional expert, analyzing and assessing risks assumed by Corporate Center functions within your functional responsibility and leading or working as a team member on audits of those functional areas.
Identifying and evaluating the effectiveness of controls designed to address those risks.
Providing practical, innovative, and value-added solutions to issues identified.
Preparing reports of audit findings for UBS senior management at local, global, functional and Group levels.

Monitoring the results, risk profile and developments within Corporate Center COO, ORC and GC functions and provide input to the annual planning and anticipatory auditing processes.

Basic Qualifications:

Strong experience (12 +years) in audit, compliance or internal control areas within the financial industry.
In-depth experience of auditing Legal, Compliance, Operational Risk, Human Resources and / or Corporate Governance topics.
Experienced in building relationships with senior management.
A flexible and committed team player, experienced in executing global audits, and are willing to travel to other UBS locations for audit assignments when necessary.
Fluency in English