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.
- 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.
- 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.