Job Summary
The Senior Audit Manager, Digital Assets is responsible for providing independent and objective assurance over the Group’s Digital Assets activities, businesses and strategic initiatives. This role is accountable for end-to-end internal audit coverage, including audit planning, risk assessment, audit execution, reporting and continuous business monitoring of digital asset products, platforms, governance and risk management frameworks. Leading and executing audits across digital assets custody, trading, tokenisation and platforms.
The role ensures that digital asset activities are conducted within Group’s risk appetite, in compliance with regulatory expectations, and in line with internal policies. The role works closely with other Group Internal Audit teams and key stakeholders across the business, risk, technology and compliance functions to deliver a coordinated and integrated audit approach, and to provide senior management and the Board with clear insight into digital assets risks, control effectiveness and emerging issues.
Key Responsibilities
• Leads and develops audit team by setting clear direction, providing technical guidance and accountable for end-to-end audit outcomes.
• Acts as the central audit point of contact for all digital asset’s stakeholders across the Group.
• Develop and maintain a risk-based audit plan for digital assets activities in accordance with IIA Standards and the Group Internal Audit methodology.
• Perform periodic and continuous risk assessments to identify and assess key risks arising from digital assets activities, new initiatives, regulatory changes and external developments.
• Plan and perform internal audit engagements in line with IIA Standards, including defining audit objectives, scope, and criteria for digital asset audits.
• Obtain sufficient, reliable, relevant and useful information to provide a reasonable basis for audit conclusions, including through walkthroughs, control testing, data analysis, and interviews.
• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal control processes over digital assets activities.
• Assess whether digital asset activities are conducted in line with the Group’s risk appetite, internal policies and applicable laws and regulations.
• Identify and clearly document audit findings, root causes, risk implications, and control weaknesses in accordance with Group Internal Audit standards and documentation requirements.
• Communicate audit result through clear, accurate, and timely reporting to management and relevant governance forums and/or committees.
• Monitor and follow up on management actions plans to ensure effective and timely remediation of audit issues.
• Maintain independence and objectivity while providing credible and constructive challenge to management.
• Coordinate with other Group Internal Audit teams to ensure adequate coverage, avoid duplication, and support a consistent and integrated assurance approach.
• Contribute to quality assurance and improvement activities within Group Internal Audit, including methodology enhancements and peer reviews.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of digital asset risks, regulatory expectations, and industry practices to continuously enhance audit effectiveness.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and/or Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)
• 8+ years working experience in audit, risk or control functions, with relevant exposure to digital assets including blockchain infrastructure, custody models, trading platforms or tokenised products.
• Strong digital assets domain knowledge of blockchain, wallets (Hot/Cold/MPC), exchanges, custody, tokenisation and DeFi
• Technology, smart contract and key management (HSM,MPC) understanding
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Outstanding communication skills, both oral, written and presentation.
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant discipline such as Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field is required to support the technical knowledge necessary for this role.
• Formal training and strong working knowledge of financial crime and/or technology risk related to digital assets.
• A recognised professional qualification in auditing, accounting, or risk management (e.g., CA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent) is highly preferred, affirming the candidate’s commitment to professional excellence and continuous development.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Risk Assessment
• Stakeholder Management
• Products and Processes
• Audit Report Writing
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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