Culture and Conduct Audit Director

The mandate

The Board Risk Committee seeks independent advice on whether culture and conduct assurance distinguishes stated values, observable conditions and actual decision behavior. Existing indicators and reviews provide information, yet they can over-rely on surveys, policy completion or isolated incidents without testing how incentives, challenge and consequence operate together.

The standing question is whether the assurance presented would reveal a material conduct condition before lagging outcomes make it undeniable. Three days weekly will cover monthly committee preparation, review of selected assurance work and two calibration workshops focused on evidence and conclusion strength.

The Director has no line authority, investigative mandate, disciplinary role or power to issue audit opinions. Recommendations route through the Committee Chair and may challenge scope, triangulation, rating or follow-up. Internal audit and management retain authorship and accountability for their respective work.

The seven-month term closes after a final maturity assessment and transfer of the challenge protocol. Renewal requires a distinct question. Conflicts include prior culture work for accountable leaders, active investigation relationships and interests that could affect candid judgement; disclosure, information restriction and recusal will be governed by the Chair.

What you will own

• Define an evidence hierarchy covering stated expectations, decision observation, workforce experience, incentives, speak-up, consequence and outcome data.
• Review ten assurance papers for representativeness, triangulation, confidentiality limits, causal overreach and rating support.
• Test whether aggregate indicators conceal materially different experiences across authorised, sufficiently sized populations.
• Challenge interpretations that treat training completion, low reported incidents or positive sentiment as proof of healthy conduct.
• Facilitate two calibration workshops using mixed evidence and require participants to separate fact, inference and unresolved hypothesis.
• Recommend trigger conditions for deeper review where retaliation, override, pressure or consequence inconsistency may exist.
• Establish committee reporting that preserves anonymity while explaining evidence limitations and management accountability.
• Transfer the challenge questions and calibration cases to the committee secretariat and internal-audit quality owner.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 18 years across internal audit, conduct risk, organisational assurance or board governance.
• Current CA ANZ, CPA Australia, ACA, ACCA or equivalent audit qualification, supplemented by CIA or relevant conduct-assurance standing.
• Evidence of a culture audit where triangulated behavior contradicted a favourable survey or completion measure.
• Strong knowledge of evidence triangulation, population bias, speak-up confidentiality, incentive effects and causal limitations.
• A case where you protected anonymity while still giving directors enough evidence to act.
• Experience challenging investigations or culture reviews without assuming disciplinary or management responsibility.
• A conflict profile compatible with reviewing sensitive assurance and willingness to recuse where prior relationships impair objectivity.

Working terms and boundaries

• Advisory cadence is three days a week for seven months, including monthly committee work and two scheduled workshops.
• The role has no line authority, investigative power, disciplinary responsibility or audit-opinion mandate.
• Conflicts are refreshed before each sensitive review; the Chair determines access restrictions and recusal.
• Running surveys, investigations, employee cases or management remediation lies outside the appointment.
• Closure requires ten reviewed papers, two calibrated workshops, an adopted challenge protocol and accepted maturity assessment.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 11 October 2026. Mandate reference AUD-ADV-2026-SYD-24.