Audit Manager - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Virgin Money

Virgin Money

Verified Company

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Unit:
Internal Audit

Salary Range:
up to circa £75,500 DOE

Contract Type:
Permanent Full Time

Join Virgin Money as we transform our team into one that is ready to meet the challenges of the future, setting us up to support our ambition to disrupt the status quo and turn traditional banking on its head.

We're on the lookout for like-minded individualsand innovators to help drive our strategy forward.

We're also transforming how we work, offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose with
A Life More Virgin.

Here's what it means for YOU:

38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)?
Five extra paid wellbeing days per year?
A 35hour working week
20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
Ability to work anywhere in the UK? (where the role allows)

And you get these Red-Hot Rewards from day one
**This role in a nutshell
- **We want to make a difference to our business, to help achieve our ambitious goals in a safe and controlled way. We do this by providing independent assurance over the bank's key risks, being a trusted advisor on risk and control, and by providing timelyand insightful engagement with a commercial focus.

As an Audit Manager, you'll be a key part of our team, reporting into a Senior Audit Manager as your people leader.

You'll own and develop positive and strong relationships with senior stakeholders and stay close to the activity in their areas.

You'll useyour experience and knowledge to really understand the business' changing risk landscape and ensure our audit activity is effectively targeted and value-add.

You'll contribute to the strategic thinking and direction of the Audit team, and play your part in developing, leading and delivering our audit plan as part of the wider team.

We're looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual, a real team-player who is ready and able to make a tangible difference to our successful team.

In return, we'll train, encourage and reward you.

We'll support you every step of the way to buildyour experience in an audit role, as part of helping you to build a successful career.

Day to day you'll be

Developing a great understanding of the business areas you work with and building strong effective, relationships with your key stakeholders and engaging those stakeholders on audit delivery, risk management and the control environment;
Supporting the development of a relevant, high quality and valueadd audit plan for your area. You'll also work with the wider team to take a "best team" approach to audits for other areas of our annual audit plan;
Leading and delivering audit engagements to agreed quality requirements and timescales;
Keeping pace with external regulations, internal audit best practice and any thought leadership in your area;
Promoting risk management and control awareness through proactive coaching with our stakeholders and development activities in our team; and
Attending relevant committees to keep abreast of changes to the control environment.

There are a few essentials you need to bring

A track record in building and managing stakeholder relationships.
Problem solving and a desire to find new ways of doing things, with the ability to bring pragmatic solutions into use.
Critical thinking and the confidence to challenge others to think differently.
An ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
Proactivity to learn and develop, and contribute to the success of the team.
An ability to work across multiple projects and successfully deliver quality results on time;
Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to change style to a wide range of people across the bank.
Proven capability in contributing to insightful opinions.
Risk management or assurance, especially practical experience in delivering audits or other assurance work.
Procurement, thirdparty and change management risks and controls.
Broader knowledge of operational risk management frameworks.

The icing on the cake would be...

Knowledge of operational risk capital modelling;

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the '
There are a few essentials you need to bring' section above.

Inclusion at Virgin Money
**Now the legal bit
**Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us.

This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.