Audit Manager

Join Zurich's Group Audit team and be part of a global community dedicated to keeping Zurich safe. With over 250 colleagues from 33 nationalities, we work as one global team striving for excellence and creating the best function for our company, our people, and our communities. We embrace and leverage the diverse skills our team brings to provide valuable insights to our stakeholders. We have a real passion for high performance, collaboration, and innovation, as we aim to push boundaries and set new standards for our profession. This includes all our people driving value from data and enhancing their work through AI.

If you are looking to thrive in a dynamic and fulfilling environment, we invite you to join us on our journey. We are currently seeking an Audit Manager to join our team in Dublin.

This is a hybrid role. The role may be available part-time or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren't available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

Ireland Business

Zurich is one of Ireland's leading insurance companies providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. The company employs circa 1200 employees, across its entities located in Dublin and Wexford.

In this role, you will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of audits, collaborating with audit team members across Group Audit. With the support of the Head of Audit, you will drive risk assessment and audit planning, determining the right audit scope, key risks, and suitable techniques. You will deliver audit outcomes of excellent quality and drive and support others on the team to do the same. You will identify themes, trends, and systemic issues in results, develop high quality audit reports and influence key stakeholders in broader actions. Additionally, you will support reporting to Group and local Boards and Audit Committees.

You will work in and support a collaborative, learning and supportive team environment. You will contribute to strategic priorities and co-create a leading audit function, utilizing innovative audit approaches, new world skills (Data Analytics, IT fundamentals and GenAI) and Agile methods.

Audit Plan & Coverage: Implement leading audit practices to define and evolve the risk-based audit plan. Help ensure coverage requirements and emerging risks are promptly addressed.
Audit Delivery: Support the delivery of the audit plan by completing your assigned portfolio of audits with quality, on time and within budget.
Stakeholder Relations: Build and maintain strong, transparent, and constructive relationships with stakeholders during audits and through broader interactions.
Reporting: Prepare and deliver audit reports to senior management and the Life Audit Committee, sharing key insights, themes, trends, findings, and risk mitigating actions.
Regulatory Relations: Together with your leader, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and contribute to addressing any items raised by them.
Learning Culture: Take ownership of your development in business technical, new world, and human skills, actively role modelling a growth and learning mindset.
New World Skills: Actively enhance your new world skills: Data, IT and GenAI. Recognize their importance in delivering optimal audit outcomes and future-proofing your skillsets.
Working AsOne: Lead by example. Show an AsOne mindset by collaborating and engaging with team members across the global Group Audit function.
Ethics and Integrity: Promote a culture of ethics and integrity within the organization. Conduct audit work in line with the Audit Methodology and applicable standards and consider improvements raised through Quality Assurance reviews together with your leader.

• Relevant bachelor's or master's degree and/or professional qualification, e.g. chartered accountant, CPA, CIA, CISA or equivalent, MBA or equivalent.
• Minimum 7+ years of relevant experience. Including at a Manager or Senior Auditor level e.g. within Internal Audit, Risk Management or Compliance. Preferably within Insurance or Financial Services
• Experience within complex, fast moving and international organizations.
• Strong understanding of Internal Audit Standards and methodology and internal control frameworks. Strong report writing skills
• Strong relationship management skills, with proven record of working with and influencing stakeholders across various levels.
• Experience in dealing with regulators and/or other external stakeholders preferred.
• Strong understanding of Life Insurance, P&C insurance also a plus.
• Good experience/understanding of the power and application of new world skills (Data, IT and AI)
• Strong project management skills, ability to organize teams, prioritize tasks, guide, and coach other team members to deliver on time to high quality standards.
• Passion and enthusiasm to continue to grow yourself and others around you.
• Fluent verbal and written English language skills.

At Zurich, we foster a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our purpose and values are designed to protect, inspire confidence and help our employees reach their full potential. We value and defend what is right and promote opportunities for equity among our professionals, regardless of gender, disability, LGBTQ +, race, ethnicity, generations, belief, etc.Our talent acquisition and hiring processes respect this commitment daily. Join Zurich and be part of this culture.Find out more at www.zurich.com.

Recruitment Manager: Anne-Marie O'Leary