Your responsibilities will be, but not limited to:
- Support in gathering the timing of local statutory audits for all the legal entities under QIMA Partners Limited, and ensure the lists are updated on a regular basis.
- Help in designing and formulating the timeline of the local statutory audits in alignment with Group Annual Audit.
- Monitor and follow up Group Audit and Local Statutory Audit requirements with the legal entities’ POCs to ensure timely completion.
- Escalate delays and/or risks in Group Audit and Statutory Audit to the Group Compliance Lead to ensure attention is given for timely resolution/mitigation.
- Liaise with External Auditor to ensure that the Group Audit status is updated correctly and communicated to the relevant recipients.
- Liaise with Local and 3rd Party Advisors handling the Local, Statutory and Tax compliance for entities without local finance in the country to ensure that compliance requirements are prepared and submitted on time.
- Provided feedback for the Review, management and recommendation if the 3rd party engagement contracts be continued, amended and/or terminated based on the relationship with the Group and their ability to deliver the scope of work as per the contracts.
- Actively seek standardization and automation, apply and implement best practices for managing Group Audit and Local, Statutory and Tax compliance and deploy innovative technology where possible to enhance and continuously improve the design and operating effectiveness of the controls, documentation, assessments and review procedures.
- Ensure that the Group Compliance Trackers are updated regularly to capture accurate requirements and deadline of deliverables. Communicate changes to the respective POCs to ensure alignment.
- Keep the record of the 3rd party’s engagement fees, Penalties and Late Charges, and the Payment made for all the compliance requirements which can be used to assess trends of payments and penalties as well as the professional fees.
- Help in the preparation of Compliance Deliverable status monthly for the Operations Review presentation.
- Suggest Continuous Improvement ideas and best practice to improve the Group Compliance process and tools.
- Other tasks assigned by the Immediate Supervisor
