Quality Assurance Auditor

Job description

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our global footprint, with more than 7,300 employees located across ten countries and four continents, enables us to unlock value for our partners across the insurance value chain and deliver superior client experience within Allianz Group. At Allianz Services, we have a strong specialization in core insurance operations, shared services, business analytics, engineering, and management consulting. Our people and our trusted relationships with partners are what matter most. These are rooted in our values of compassion, integrity, and expertise and we strive to continuously evolve, improve, and deliver excellence while contributing successfully to the transformation of Allianz. Caring actively for the environment, for people, and for our customers is what makes us a great place to work and together we are shaping a better and more caring tomorrow.   

Allianz Services is a company which belongs to the legal entity, Allianz Technology SE. 

Job role

Quality Assurance  Auditor supports Allianz Holding Eins to accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes. 
Quality Assurance  Auditor acts as accepted advisor to the business with in depth experience auditing in the field of financial & operational topics. The role is about to advise managers and their departments and add value to the business by identifying business risks at an early stage and helping  them to improve the control

What you will do

Internal Audit:
•    Take responsibility for the performance of the audit engagements in areas of assigned responsibility
•    Plan and execute audit projects, define risk-based audit areas, audit business transactions, workflows, processes and control systems
•    Determine deficiencies and vulnerabilities to be remedied, analyze audit results, formulate proposals for solution and support or lead closing meetings
•    Maintain the audit system, ensure proper documentation and responsibility for audit report writing
•    Comply with the audit policy and the respective standards (independence, integrity, confidentiality, truth and fairness, security, economy, system conformity) 
•    Verify if the audit’s suggested measures were accomplished (follow up) and support the implementation of the audit recommendations 
•    Support the update of audit methods, initiate improvements of workflows, processes, security and control systems and promote best practice sharing
•    Planning and implementation of technical training and information (team/peer)
•    Take responsibility for the relationship with the auditees (deal with challenging situations, understand different perspectives, deliver challenging conclusions in a diplomatic way)
•    Communicate with stakeholders from all hierarchy levels
•    Other accountabilities consist in carrying out other related work and/or projects which may be required by Head of Internal Audit.
Quality Assurance: 
On CE regional level:
•    Quality check of high risk findings in CE Region before communicated to auditees
•    Quality check of SI areas in CE Region before communicated to auditees
•    Review and quality check of risk acceptances in CE Region 
•    Monthly KPI monitoring
•    Quality check on finding closure for all high risk findings in CE Region
•    Quality check on finding closure for selected medium risk findings (sample based) in CE Region
•    Quality and completeness check of TM+ project populations & documentation for all audit projects in CE Region
•    Compliance check of local Audit Policies with Group Audit Policy
•    Quality and completeness check of annual local audit universe residual risk assessments
•    Quality, completeness and reliability check of local 5 year audit plans and capacity plans
•    Quality check of local planning dialogue rationals
•    Quality check of local audit plans (draft vs. final vs TM upload vs MAU)
•    Quality and completeness check of board meetings materials of local OEs
•    Pre-quality check of local self-assessments
•    Mid-year check of local self-assessments and implementation of relating action plans
•    Quarterly follow-up of self-assessment findings
•    Participation in regional calibration of selected Practice / Trend Audit results in CE OEs
•    Overdue finding management in CE Region
•    Quality check of individual audit working papers (sample basis) in local OE audit projects in CE Region
•    Quality check of local QAIP

What you bring

•    Strong academic background (master/university diploma or degree in economics, legal or similar disciplines); 
•    Knowledge of regulatory framework and insurance/financial markets;
•    Strong, demonstrated professional track record, preferably in an audit/accounting/controlling or consulting company; 
•    +3  years professional experience in internal/external audit or as consultant or equivalent will be an advantage; 
•    Audit certification will be an advantage;
•    Ability to deal with all types of persons and experience in managing escalation processes after delivering inconvenient decisions;  
•    Geographical mobility (international travel for extended periods);
•    Proven command of the English language (verbal and written);
•    Keen to travel since the assignments would be out of Romania.

•    We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team

You have

•    Excellent communication skills are essential;
•    Rigorous and methodological work approach; 
•    Talent to empathize for the auditee’s perspective and ability to listen;
•    Team spirit, self-motivation and a proactive and committed working style, as well as ability to interact in a global work environment with people from different countries and cultures; 
•    Strong computer skills / MS Office;

What we offer

We support your well-being

•  Access dedicated counseling services, mental health resources, and well-being sessions designed to keep you feeling your best
• Enjoy a personalized benefits package through a monthly budget on the Benefit platform, covering medical subscriptions, meal tickets, private pension plans, life insurance, Allianz Tiriac exclusive insurance discounts, and many more.
• Prioritize what truly matters with time off on your birthday, additional vacation days for each year with Allianz (up to five extra days), Paid leave on December 24th and 31st, plus the flexibility to swap weekend holidays for extra days off, and special allowances for significant life events.

We invest in your growth

Take advantage of an extensive learning curriculum tailored to support your career growth and meet your professional needs, with access to a wide range of technical and soft skills trainings, international certifications (including Agile, Lean Six Sigma, PRINCE2, ITIL, IFOA, ACCA, IACCM, and more), learning resources from LinkedIn and Allianz platforms, language development opportunities (German, French, English), and our dedicated Leadership Program to help you reach the next level.

We value you and your work

We acknowledge and recognize your work through performance-based rewards to celebrate your achievements, team, and individual recognition programs to celebrate your contributions and internal referral bonuses.  

Your personal information, including sensitive data, may be shared with Hiring Managers to evaluate your suitability for the role. Only candidates who meet the criteria will be contacted, and all applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.

Allianz Group, , a trusted global insurance and asset management company, values inclusion, and integrity at its core. We foster an empowering environment that supports employee ambitions and challenges. Committed to fairness, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. At Allianz, we encourage you to bring your whole self to work.

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