Job Summary
At Standard Chartered Bank AG (SCB AG), Internal Audit plays a critical role as the third line of defence, providing independent assurance over the effectiveness of our risk management, governance, and control framework.
As an Audit Manager, you will have the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders, influence decision-making, and contribute to the protection of the Bank’s assets, reputation, and long-term sustainability. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced audit professional who thrives in a dynamic international banking environment and is passionate about making actual impact and developing quickly.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and Deliver High-Impact Audits
- Lead and execute internal audit engagements across SCB AG and support Group Internal Audit assignments where required.
- Plan, manage, and deliver audits from scoping through reporting.
- Oversee audit budgets, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Identify, assess, and communicate key risks, control gaps, and audit findings.
- Deliver high-quality audit products.
Drive Risk and Control Excellence
- Evaluate the effectiveness of risk management, and internal control frameworks.
- Provide independent challenge and constructive recommendations to improve business processes.
- Support ongoing risk assessments and contribute to audit planning processes.
- Monitor emerging risks, industry developments, and regulatory expectations in real time.
Partner with Senior Stakeholders
- Build trusted relationships with (senior) business leaders, control functions, regulators, and external auditors.
- Clearly communicate complex risk and control concepts to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Represent Internal Audit in governance committees and management forums when required.
- Provide local expertise and support to global audit teams.
Contribute Beyond Audit Delivery
- Support continuous improvement initiatives within the Internal Audit function.
- Mentor colleagues and contribute to a culture of learning and development.
- Help identify talent and promote best practices across the team.
- Champion Standard Chartered’s values and commitment to ethical conduct.
What We're Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience within Internal Audit, Risk Management, a related banking environment or professional services such as Risk Advisory/Consulting or External Audit.
- Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks within financial services.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and investigative skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly and confidently with senior management.
- Experience leading audit assignments or similar projects and managing multiple priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- High level of integrity, professional judgement, and independence.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a global team.
- Understanding of the banking environment, CIB business, banking regulation and processed including associated risks and controls.
- Ideally prior experience in risk management, particularly in ICAAP, ILAAP, treasury risk, market risk, credit risk, or general risk-management processes within a German- or European-regulated bank.
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional audit qualification such as CIA, CISA, ACCA, CPA, ACA, or equivalent.
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.