Job Description

About FWD Group

FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves more than 38 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828.

For more information, please visit www.fwd.com

Job Purpose

Lead business audits to provide key stakeholders including management and board audit committee, assurance regarding financial, operational, and compliance objectives of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the full audit cycle of business audits and communicate findings and areas for improvement to the ExCom/ OpsCom and the board audit committee
• Be an agent for change by delivering quality audit reports with practical, effective and actionable recommendations, agreed with management, and aligned to the company’s strategy, including digital transformation, CX and innovation.
• Conduct follow up reviews to ensure effective remediation of audit findings and positive improvement and impact to the control environment
• Lead the development of the three-year audit plan and the annual plan by performing risk assessments with 2nd line, ExCom/ OpsCom, and other key stakeholders
• Prepare papers for monthly ExCom/ OpsCom, and monthly Group reporting
• Develop knowledge regarding regulatory requirements, emerging risks and audit methodology, and be the lead in educating and disseminating this knowledge to other auditors within the department
• Promote innovative and technology driven auditing techniques through the use of data analytics and other automated auditing tools