Senior Manager Audit

**Hono ki tā mātou Tīma Hihiri | Join Our Dynamic Team** Are you passionate about challenging the status quo and creating meaningful change? Do you thrive on generating insights that drive impactful outcomes? If so, we want you to be a part of our evolving journey in Audit and Assurance. **Mō Tāua | About Us**: **This is a very exciting time to join our**forward-thinking**, first in class Audit and Assurance team and drive meaningful change and innovation through technical data analytics.** We are challenging the status quo of internal audit. We are evolving how we do things to meet the pace of change in the bank to provide insights on the things that matter to keep our customer safe. Our team is committed to making a difference and driving positive sustainable change while evolving our ways of working along the way. Transitioning to a more data analytics driven function, our Audit and Assurance team continue to provide independent, objective and strategic assurance over what matters, the protection of our customers and business. **Te Tūranga | The Role**: - Leading delivery of Audit/projects for actionable insight and make strategic and tactical recommendations that highlight gaps and opportunities within ASB. - Perform Advance data analytics, design, develop and implement models/solutions to help answer questions, providing insightful reporting, which aims to highlight key exception and issues from business processes, building automations using R, Python, SAS and SQL, accuracy of data analytics, tools & dashboard results, process enhancement through building & usage of Automations, AI and idea seeding. - Influence stakeholders across the three lines of bank by embedding data-driven insights into Continuous control Monitoring initiatives - Establish, develop and maintain strong working relationship with stakeholders. - Transform data into stories through effective use of data visualisation, simplification and understanding of intended audiences. - Design and implement NLP driven solutions to analyse unstructured data and identify anomalies/indicators through sentiment, Cluster, classification analysis. - Uses research, analytics, and a strong evidence base to inform decision making for Audit and business processes. - Build trust with business through strong communication and effective stakeholder management. - Support the creation of Continuous monitoring dashboards, scripts and exception-based reports to support real-time Auditing - Stay updated on emerging AI, Data analytics, and Audit practices to drive innovation. - Champion the use of AI/ML along with new tools and techniques to solve business problems. **Ngā mea e kimi ana mātou | What we're looking for**: Along with your proven decision-making ability and extensive risk management expertise, you will bring the following soft skills and experience: - Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with confidence and credibility, to influence and engage effectively with stakeholders across the business - A problem solver, with the ability to see the bigger picture and identify trends, analytical skills, uses rigorous logic, analysis and methods to solve problems with effective solutions. - An understanding of relevant risk/assurance principles and methodologies with the ability to translate complex information to various audiences - Strong interpersonal skills, critical thinking skills, and time management skills - Minimum 7 years' experience providing Advance data analysis, internal/external audit - Priority setting and time management skills are important given Audit/reporting deadlines Hard skills must haves: - Hands on expert in Python, R, SAS, SQL skill set - Strong knowledge of NLP, sentiment, Cluster, classification analysis - Strong understanding of audit theories, principles, and practices and internal controls - Hold a Master/Post-grad/Grad degree in Computer Science, Data science, Business, IT Good to have: - AI/ML in-depth understanding - Strong VBA, Excel - Power-BI - Cloud environment knowledge would be handy to have **He aha tā mātou | What can we offer?** **Get the work-life equation right.** We know life is full of priorities, from soccer practice to side hobbies, and we're here to support you in building a career that works around it all, with a flexible and supportive working environment. **What's important to you is important to us.** We support your wellbeing in meaningful ways, including comprehensive health insurance, wellness initiatives, parental and flexible leave, and customisable benefits to suit your lifestyle. **Bring your whole self to work every day.** Whether you're a weekend adventurer, a bookworm or a fan of big family gatherings, ASB is working hard to create a culture where everyone feels safe, included and part of our shared purpose of helping Kiwi get one step ahead. **The whole "one step ahead" thing applies to you, too.** With mentorship, flexible learning pathways, and opportunities t