Risk Auditor Corporate

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🏦 Industry: Corporate & Institutional Banking

📍 Work Arrangement: Hybrid

We are seeking an experienced, analytical, and risk-focused Treasury & Risk Auditor to conduct risk-based audit assignments covering Treasury, Markets, Credit, and related corporate banking activities. The role will assess the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls, identify key financial and operational risks, evaluate regulatory compliance, and provide practical recommendations to strengthen the Bank’s governance and risk-management framework. The current Kuala Lumpur role focuses on end-to-end Treasury, Markets, and Credit audit assignments. Jobstreet Malaysia

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute risk-based internal audit assignments covering Treasury, Markets, Credit, and Corporate Banking activities.

• Assess the adequacy, effectiveness, and reliability of internal controls across Treasury and banking processes.

• Review Treasury activities including foreign exchange, money markets, derivatives, liquidity management, funding, investments, and financial instruments.

• Evaluate market risk, liquidity risk, credit risk, counterparty risk, operational risk, and other relevant financial risks.

• Review corporate banking credit processes, risk assessments, approval procedures, and portfolio controls.

• Assess compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, risk limits, and established banking procedures.

• Perform walkthroughs, control testing, substantive testing, data analysis, and audit procedures.

• Analyze transactions, financial data, risk reports, trading activities, and supporting documentation to identify unusual or high-risk activities.

• Identify control gaps, process weaknesses, policy breaches, and potential risk exposures.

• Conduct root-cause analysis and develop practical, value-added recommendations for identified issues.

• Prepare detailed audit working papers, findings, risk assessments, and audit reports.

• Discuss audit observations with process owners and management to validate facts and agree on remediation plans.

• Monitor management action plans and follow up on outstanding audit findings until appropriate closure.

• Assess new products, systems, processes, and business initiatives from a risk and internal-control perspective.

• Keep up to date with changes in banking regulations, Treasury practices, financial markets, and risk-management requirements.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of governance frameworks, segregation of duties, authorization controls, and risk-management processes.

• Support continuous improvement of Treasury and Corporate Banking audit methodologies and risk-assessment approaches.

• Use data analytics and technology to improve audit coverage, identify trends, and detect potential control weaknesses.

• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, Finance, Treasury, Credit, Operations, and other control functions.

• Present significant audit findings, risk observations, and recommendations to senior management and relevant governance committees where required.

• Contribute to the annual audit plan and identify emerging risk areas requiring enhanced audit attention.

The role is consistent with comparable Malaysian Treasury audit positions, which emphasize risk assessment, internal-control evaluation, audit planning, issue tracking, management reporting, and regulatory awareness. LinkedIn

✅ Requirements

• Proven experience in Internal Audit, Treasury Audit, Risk Management, Corporate Banking, Credit Risk, Financial Markets, or a related banking function.

• Strong knowledge of Treasury operations, financial markets, corporate banking, credit, and banking risk management.

• Experience conducting end-to-end internal audit assignments within a banking or financial-services environment.

• Strong understanding of market risk, liquidity risk, credit risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk.

• Knowledge of Treasury products such as FX, money markets, bonds, derivatives, investments, and funding instruments is preferred.

• Strong understanding of internal controls, governance, risk frameworks, and audit methodologies.

• Familiarity with Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) regulations and applicable banking requirements is an advantage.

• Experience reviewing policies, procedures, risk limits, transaction controls, and regulatory compliance.

• Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to identify unusual transactions, control weaknesses, and emerging risks.

• Excellent report-writing, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management abilities.

• Ability to challenge business processes constructively and communicate complex risk issues clearly.

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and audit or data-analysis tools.

• Experience with SQL, Power BI, audit analytics, or banking systems is an advantage.

• Strong attention to detail, professional judgment, and integrity.

• Ability to manage multiple audit assignments and deliver work within strict deadlines.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with business and control functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Banking, Economics, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline is preferred.

• Professional certifications such as CIA, CPA, ACCA, CFA, FRM, CISA, or other relevant banking/risk/audit qualifications are an advantage.

• Experience in corporate and investment banking, Treasury, Markets, or financial-institution audit is highly preferred. Comparable Malaysian corporate-banking audit roles specifically value experience across Corporate Credit, IT Audit, Treasury Audit, Risk Management, and banking operations. Jac Recruitment

🌟 What We Offer

• Opportunity to gain deep exposure to Treasury, Financial Markets, Corporate Banking, Credit, Risk, and Internal Audit.

• Exposure to complex financial instruments, banking transactions, regulatory requirements, and enterprise risk frameworks.

• Opportunity to work directly with Treasury, Markets, Credit, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and senior management teams.

• Hands-on experience with end-to-end audit planning, fieldwork, reporting, issue remediation, and risk assessment.

• Opportunity to contribute to audit transformation, data analytics, process improvement, and emerging-risk initiatives.

• Career progression into Senior Treasury Auditor, Audit Manager, Treasury Audit Lead, Risk Manager, Senior Internal Audit Manager, Head of Treasury Audit, or Head of Internal Audit roles.

• Hybrid working environment and exposure to regional or international banking operations.

• Professional training, industry certifications, technical development, and continuous career advancement opportunities.

• • Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and comprehensive benefits package.