A market leading investment bank require an exceptional IT Applications Audit professional to come on board and play a pivotal part reviewing multi feed trading applications, a truly exciting opportunity for those who thrive on new challenges.

You will also work with IT Applications Auditors who typically foster a culture of sharing skills and knowledge which they see as vitally important. Given the depth of the technical reviews, cutting edge technology and complexities involved you will certainly be challenged but also have the opportunity to deepen your technical nous and learn from the best.

Key requirements:

• Degree educated
• IT Applications controls, must possess automated business controls experience
• Investment banking experience/ background would be an added advantage but those from other sectors will be considered
• Technically astute and genuinely passionate about technology
• Those form a technical background i.e. programming or developing applications will also be considered, but must possess good understanding of risk controls / end to end risk management / audit
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build and develop relationships within the team and business stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain challenging technical jargon in clear and concise form
• Adaptable and flexible mindset

For further details or to refer individuals in your network please get in touch for a confidential discussion. Or to apply, please send your CV to [email protected] / 0207 099 7180

Global Investment banking firm with a strong footprint across EMEA, USA and Asia are looking for an experienced IT Applications Audit professional to join their EMEA IT Audit division.

The nature of the bank’s business is within the wholesale / global markets space hence front office reviews will be part of your wider mandate, whilst the main focus will be within Support functions including Finance and Operations. Experience of client money, transaction reporting, collateral settlements would be a huge advantage.

The role offers a wealth of opportunities for those wanting to deepen their technical knowledge, take leadership of projects, work on high profile engagements, face-off to regulators and progress further in their career. You will be part of a deeply technical IT Audit team who have consistently added value, hence the expectations are high but you will gain enormously from a thriving organisation.

Essential skills:

• * Strong working knowledge of IT Applications Audit or Technology Risk Management with sound understanding of risk and control
• * Sound understanding of Corporate Division / Support functions within an Investment Bank and technology which are relevant to these business areas
• * Experience of managing projects / leading Audit engagements
• * Ability to identify key risks and make sound judgement
• * Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• * Ability to build relationship with stakeholders/ auditees/ external parties i.e. regulators
• * Experience in coaching and managing junior staff
• * Ability to lead regional and / or global projects
• * Experience of data analytical tools

Our client is a European Investment Bank with a global presence. They are looking to appoint a senior VP in IT Audit in their London Office. Covering a wide range of products including commodities, debt and equities markets, and asset management, this role offers the right candidate a great opportunity to gain a wide breadth of experience, and provides the opportunity to develop their career within a highly experienced team. Using an integrated audit approach the role will focus on application reviews mainly within the fixed income business, however there will also be some opportunity to develop within the infrastructure space, and to work on associated projects.

Requirements for VP IT Audit role:
* Degree educated with relevant IT Audit qualifications
* Significant experience of auditing Investment Banking Applications particularly front office applications
* A strong technical background, ideally with some relevant application development experience

Our client, a tier 1 Bank is seeking an IT Applications Audit 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 among team members.

Our client, a tier 1 organisation is seeking an Associate VP to join their Internal Audit Applications 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 among team members.

Our client is a Financial Services Group with a strong presence in the EMEA region. They are seeking a VP in Technology Audit to join their Internal Audit Team, covering applications audits in the Finance and Liquidity Risk Audit space. Working along side the business audit team to define the overall scope of audits, the successful candidate will be the main point of contact for IT Audit in Finance and Liquidity Risk for EMEA, and responsible for all IT Audit input in this area.
Key Requirements:
• Experience of leading IT Applications Audits, either in an Investment Bank, or on a Consultancy basis with a Big 4 firm
• Experience of Applications Audit in Finance and Liquidity Risk
• An understanding of the Investment Banking and the interaction of IT Audit with the rest of the business
• Relevant higher education and professional qualifications: CA or similar level Accountancy Qualification, Technology Auditing Professional Qualifications, such as CISA