The successful candidate will join a tier 1 organisation with a clear structure and strong global presence.  As part of a dedicated Audit function, you will lead the Operations and Change Management team and will have experience within a large bank in either IT or Business Audit. With a proven track record of leading teams, allocating resources and managing budgets, you will maintain high standards of reporting across the function. Through fostering an open team environment you will encourage the sharing of knowledge and expertise between all team members.

Essential

• Considerable experience in a leadership role, maintaining and developing excellent working relationships with team members, stakeholders and senior management.
• Charismatic leadership skills with desire and personality to inspire other team members.
• An expert knowledge of Operations & Change Management audit including documentation standards, risk modelling, change controls, quality frameworks and compliance.

Desirable

• Degree educated with an appropriate audit or accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, IIA, CISA).
• Good working knowledge of current business operating models and systems.
• Prior experience managing a global team and resources or considerable experience in project management.

A leading investment bank is seeking an experienced senior auditor to manage a comprehensive review of front to back office business from planning through to making the final report.  Using excellent communication skills to manage relationships across the business you will report to the Head of Internal Audit and have the opportunity to be involved with the Audit committee.

This is an excellent role for an internal auditor with c5 years experience of capital markets products looking for more autonomy and involvement in the business.

Essential:

• An audit qualification

• Experience auditing various functions of an investment bank

• Strong understanding of risks and controls impacting on investment banking

• J-Sox would be an advantage

A tier one bank with a strong global presence is seeking a Director to lead their IT Audit (Infrastructure) team.  Using demonstrable leadership experience to develop a team with a shared knowledge culture, you will maintain high standards of reporting integrity across the team and maintain positive relationships with management and stakeholders.  The successful candidate will have a background in a similar banking environment in either IT or Business audit.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in a leadership role, maintaining and developing excellent working relationships with team members, stakeholders and senior management.
• Charismatic leadership skills with desire and personality to inspire other team members.
• Expert understanding of risks, controls and testing methods for commonly used platforms such as Unix, Windows, Data networks for mobile and voice, Mainframe, Midrange amongst others.

Desirable

• Degree educated with an appropriate audit or accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, IIA, CISA).
• Experience operating one of the above mentioned platforms.
• Good working knowledge of current business operating models and systems.
• Prior experience managing a global team and resources.
• Understanding of controls and governance relating to Information Security and IT Risk Management.

Our client is seeking an experienced VP or Director to lead their financial and regulatory reporting audit team.  You will use extensive knowledge of Financial Regulatory Reporting, both for an international and UK setting, to develop and implement the Internal Audit strategy.  Experience of leading a central finance function or a similar audit role is desirable.

A leading global investment firm seeks a Vice President, Credit Risk to join their specialist Risk Audit team.  You will have either worked as part of a credit risk management team or as an Auditor covering Credit Risk in an Investment Bank.  As part of a small team, the successful candidate will deputise for the Head of the Credit Risk Audit and assist them in leading and developing the team. As the principle lead for credit risk, you will work closely with all business audit teams, particularly the Quantitative audit team on assurance frameworks for traded products.  The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills fostering a shared knowledge culture across the team in addition to maintaining excellent working relationships with stakeholders and senior management.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Experience in financial management within a traded product credit risk, credit analyst  or credit reviewer role.

• Thorough understanding of credit risk controls

• Excellent communication skills with demonstrable experience of stakeholder management

• Broad knowledge and understanding of global regulatory developments and frameworks.

• Expert understanding of Basel II requirements, thorough knowledge of Basel III proposals.

Desirable:

• Two years’ experience as a credit risk auditor.      

Our client, a leading global investment firm, seeks an experienced Auditor to join their internal audit team.  With a background in audit or accountancy gained in a Big 4 or investment firm, the successful candidate will be degree educated and hold a relevant professional qualification (eg., CPA, ACA).  Using their prior years of experience conducting audits, the ideal candidate will use excellent communication and networking skills to build successful working relationships with the internal audit team, clients, stakeholders and senior management.

Essential:

• Professional audit or accountancy qualification.
• Strong practical understanding of the audit process and regulatory developments, ideally for a global team
• Expert knowledge of mutual funds, brokerage or related banking or financial businesses and related internal controls
• Willingness to undertake travel for required training or short assignments

Our client is seeking an Internal Auditor with Conduct Risk, AML/STF experience, to join their internal audit team. The successful candidate will be degree educated and hold a relevant professional qualification in addition to having demonstrable experience in auditing and managing risks in Conduct and Financial Crime.  Using excellent communication skills to develop and maintain positive working relationships, the ideal candidate will also manage small teams.

Essential:

• Expert understanding of Anti-bribery and Corruption, Financial Crime (AML/STF) and Fraud requirements for UK and USA.  In addition to expert knowledge of sanctions, transaction monitoring and Due Diligence.

• Expert understanding of UK Conduct of Business requirements which includes Retail Conduct Risk.

• Minimum of four years current experience  in a regulatory function of a financial services organisation or large bank.

• Knowledge of UK Financial Crime Regulations

Desirable:

• A relevant qualification in either auditing / accounting (IIA, ACA, ACCA), Financial Crime (CAMS) or Compliance.

Our client, a tier 1 organisation is seeking an Associate VP to join their Internal Audit team. With a financial services background gained in a large bank or investment firm, the ideal candidate will use their prior experience in IT applications audit to maintain the organisation’s rigorous internal audit standard.  The successful candidate will use excellent communication skills to develop and maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders and senior management in addition to facilitating a culture of shared knowledge and experience amongst team members.

Our client, a leading tier 1 bank is seeking a Senior Manager to lead their Equities Audit team.  Based in Canary Wharf, the successful candidate will have a background in traded products audit, ideally equities, and  have responsibility for:  Equities Investment Banking and Finance, Traded Equity Products and Equity Research Audit.

The broad scope of the role provides a unique opportunity to further develop your understanding of all facets of Equities Audit.  As Senior Manager, you will  be responsible for drafting and scoping the audit plan, conducting reviews and managing a small team.

Essential:

Eight to twelve years’ experience in traded products audit (equities, or fixed income/rates) .

Degree educated or equivalent.

Demonstrable experience in auditing traded products at a senior level, ideally equities but other traded product specialists will also be of interest.

Excellent communication skills.

Strong relationship management.

Desirable:

Experience managing teams.

Accountancy qualification.

Experience in a big 4 environment.

Experience conducting Capital Markets Audit.

Our client, a leading global bank is seeking a Senior Auditor Manager to join their internal audit team.  With extensive experience leading and conducting Market Risk audits, the successful candidate will have a proven track record leading and developing teams in addition to fostering a team environment with an open, shared knowledge culture.  The successful candidate will use their excellent communication skills in addition to experience in similar roles within investment banking to foster positive working relationships with team members, senior management, stakeholders and clients.

Essential:

Relevant Professional Qualification (ACCA, ACA, CFA, FRM)

Thorough technical knowledge and experience of Market Risk and traded products.

Strong understanding of the current regulatory environment particularly those impacting on investment banking.

Desirable:

Experience in investment banking market risk audit or market risk management process.
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