APAC Internal Audit COO: Strategy, Delivery & Governance

Testing Site - JPMC; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Testing Site - JPMC in Hong Kong seeks a senior Internal Audit COO Asia Pacific to translate strategy into a governed, executable plan. You will partner with Audit leadership to drive operational and financial execution, ensuring disciplined delivery and transparent governance across global teams.

Responsibilities include leading audit planning, supervising plan execution, and implementing metrics to monitor compliance and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Experience in internal audit execution or leading audit operations for a large, complex organization.
• Demonstrated people leadership with performance mgmt and team development.
• Strong knowledge of audit methodology, internal controls, and risk assessment.
• Ability to manage budgets, capacity planning, and governance.
• Program and project management capability to handle multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with senior stakeholder influencing.
• Experience working across matrixed, global, and virtual teams.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual audit planning process, including audit universe reviews, mapping, risk assessment, and coverage adequacy.
• Oversee audit plan execution, monitoring changes and adherence to internal standards and external requirements.
• Implement tools, metrics, and reporting to monitor compliance with audit policies, analyzing trends and driving corrective actions.
• Partner with Audit leadership and Audit Practices to prioritize, deliver, and communicate the strategic agenda and key initiatives.
• Drive process improvements and best practices that improve consistency, efficiency, and quality across audit activities.
• Manage budget, forecasting, and financial discipline in coordination with finance partners.
• Lead workforce management including headcount planning, open roles, hiring coordination, development, training, and required certifications.
• Coordinate governance and senior management forums, including preparation of materials and executive-level communications.
• Support regulatory and stakeholder interactions, including examinations, reviews, and responses to inquiries.
• Build strong working relationships with business and control partners to enable effective planning and delivery.
• Collaborate with the broader Internal Audit COO community to share practices and improve common deliverables.

Skills

Audit operations

Budget management

People leadership

Program/project management

Communication skills

Cross-functional teams

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Testing Site - JPMC in Hong Kong seeks a senior Internal Audit COO Asia Pacific to translate strategy into a governed, executable plan. You will partner with Audit leadership to drive operational and financial execution, ensuring disciplined delivery and transparent governance across global teams.

Responsibilities include leading audit planning, supervising plan execution, and implementing metrics to monitor compliance and performance.