Intern, Internal Audit

Intellectual Property Office of Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 13,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

IPOS International invites applications for an internship in auditing. You will work under the Team Lead to understand processes, identify risks, and perform audit procedures to test controls within IPOS Singapore’s IP protection and governance programs.

The role emphasizes data analysis, documentation of working papers, and collaboration on audit observations and action follow-ups, with opportunities to apply AI and analytics tools.

Qualifications

• Studied accounting or related modules in Year 1 or 2 of polytechnic or university studies.
• Candidates who have prior internship experience in internal or external auditing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work closely under the guidance of the Team Lead to understand business processes, identify key risks and controls, and perform audit procedures to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Prepare and maintain clear and well-documented audit working papers to support the audit procedures performed and conclusions reached.
• Perform data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, exceptions and potential control weaknesses to support audit work.
• Assist in identifying and drafting preliminary audit observations, including the underlying issues and potential areas for improvement, in a clear and concise manner.
• Assist in monitoring and tracking the implementation status of past audit findings and agreed management actions, including following up on outstanding items where required.
• Explore and apply appropriate uses of AI, data analytics and other available tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of audit activities and the department’s work processes.
• Support other departmental activities, including the preparation of Audit Committee meeting materials, procurement activities and other administrative matters as required.

Skills

Accounting basics

Education

Accounting modules

Job description

What the role is:

Great ideas do not discriminate — anyone can have them. With the right protection and support, a great idea can become a trusted brand, a transformative technology, an innovative process or design, or even a song or story that inspires one’s soul.Housing Singapore’s largest community of intellectual property (IP) experts, IPOS understands better than anyone how important it is to protect ideas and creations for now and the future. We leverage on our deep technical, legal and business expertise to help innovative enterprises grow, through their intangible assets, including IP, from Singapore, through Singapore. We catalyse the ideas today, into assets tomorrow.

What you will be working on:

• Work closely under the guidance of the Team Lead to understand business processes, identify key risks and controls, and perform audit procedures to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Prepare and maintain clear and well-documented audit working papers to support the audit procedures performed and conclusions reached.
• Perform data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, exceptions and potential control weaknesses to support audit work.
• Assist in identifying and drafting preliminary audit observations, including the underlying issues and potential areas for improvement, in a clear and concise manner.
• Assist in monitoring and tracking the implementation status of past audit findings and agreed management actions, including following up on outstanding items where required.
• Explore and apply appropriate uses of AI, data analytics and other available tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of audit activities and the department’s work processes.
• Support other departmental activities, including the preparation of Audit Committee meeting materials, procurement activities and other administrative matters as required.

What we are looking for:

• Studied accounting or related modules in Year 1 or 2 of polytechnic or university studies.
• Candidates who have prior internship experience in internal or external auditing preferred.

About Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is the national authority that registers and is responsible for the administration of IP rights in Singapore. IPOS helps businesses use intangible assets (IA) and IP to grow and is committed to building Singapore into an international IA/IP hub. We help to catalyse a future driven by life-enhancing, commercially successful ideas created by businesses, professionals and everyday people. We help to turn today’s ideas into tomorrow’s assets. IPOS is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law.