Key responsibilities:

• Develop and lead the risk-based audit plan for allocated portfolios, ensuring alignment with the Internal Audit function’s priorities, the Company’s strategic goals, and the requirements of the Internal Audit Charter.
• Lead audit activity across the corporate function portfolio, including second-line activities and oversight processes.
• Assess the design and effectiveness of governance, risk management, compliance, monitoring, reporting, escalation, and policy-related control environments.
• Evaluate whether corporate functions are effectively discharging their oversight responsibilities and contributing to a strong control environment.
• Work closely with senior and executive leadership to evaluate strategically or financially important processes, identify control enhancements, and ensure appropriate action is taken.
• Manage portfolio internal audit activities, including audit projects, assessments, regulatory audit requirements, and other assurance activities approved by senior leadership and relevant committees.
• Provide leadership on risk management, internal controls, risk mitigation strategies, and compliance with relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures.
• Oversee the quality of audit work across allocated portfolios, ensuring consistent, timely, and high-quality delivery.
• Lead the successful delivery of assigned J-SOx programme responsibilities in line with NTT DATA requirements.
• Present audit findings, themes, recommendations, and portfolio-level insights to senior management, executive leadership, and relevant committees.
• Coordinate effectively with external auditors and other assurance providers to support efficient and aligned assurance coverage.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships across the organisation to support effective audit delivery, business advisory input, and strategic recommendations.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Establish and maintain strong relationships across the organisation to support effective audit delivery, business advisory input, and strategic recommendations.
• Strong internal audit knowledge, sound judgement, and the ability to lead complex audit portfolios in a global environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex matters clearly to senior leadership, executive stakeholders, and the Board
• Strong stakeholder management capability, with the confidence and credibility to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• The ability to conceptualise, initiate, and deliver multiple audit projects on time and within budget.
• A strong understanding of second-line operating models, including governance, risk management, compliance, oversight, monitoring, and policy implementation.
• The ability to assess governance-based and oversight-based control environments, not only transactional or operational controls.
• Strong understanding of business processes, risk management, internal controls, and the broader IT services environment.
• Excellent planning, organisational, coaching, and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to operate effectively in a global matrix environment and deliver under pressure in a fast-paced organisation.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's or equivalent degree or equivalent in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Certification - Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or related designation.

Required experience:

• Significant experience in a professional internal audit capacity, including leadership of audit teams and audit portfolios.
• Significant experience leading and managing audit teams in a complex organisation.
• Significant business leadership and strategic risk and compliance audit experience.
• Experience auditing corporate functions, governance processes, and second-line risk, compliance, or oversight activities.
• Experience assessing policies, standards, oversight structures, reporting, monitoring, escalation, and governance arrangements in complex organisations.
• Experience engaging with senior and executive stakeholders across multiple functional areas in a global or matrix environment.
• Demonstrated experience driving control improvement, supporting strategic priorities, and acting as an agent of change in risk and compliance audit environments.
• Experience gained within a global IT services organisation would be advantageous.