Audit Manager - Coventry, United Kingdom - Coventry Building Society

Coventry Building Society
Coventry Building Society
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Coventry, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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About The Role

We are looking for an experienced internal audit practitioner with strong information technology and information security experience, supported with proficiency in monitoring, assessing and challenging an organisation's Information Technology function and technologychange initiatives.

The role includes a direct reporting line to an Audit Senior Manager

In Internal Audit, we're the team that has a remit to cast an eye over all that the Society does.

This Manager role provides critical support to the Internal Audit team in respect of their assessments of the Society's information technology and information security operational and governance activities, run through the Chief Information and Digital Officerfunction (CIDO), and any associated connections with supporting Society teams.

The role also provides the opportunity to understand and assess the work of the Society's second-line Risk function in relation to CIDO function activities.

The role provides oversight, insight and options regarding the manner in which the Internal Audit team assesses and audits the Society's information technology and information security operational and governance activities, directed by the content of the annualInternal Audit Plan.

Assurance work will be directed to ensure audits are undertaken in accordance with requirements and address key information technology risk management and control matters.

You will play a key role in collaborating and educating internal stakeholders to ensure that risks are effectively managed and a robust control environment across the Society's CIDO function is maintained, although there may be opportunities to support InternalAudit in other assignments and assessments outside of core areas.

This critical role will require the identification and reporting of areas of deficiency in support of delivery of the Internal Audit Plan and a requirement to make impactful recommendations to improve the Society's internal risk management and control environment.

You will have the opportunity to interface with the Society's Senior CIDO Leadership team and to interact with senior stakeholders across the technology area.

About You

Working with the Audit Senior Management team, you will provide oversight, insight and options regarding the manner in which the Internal Audit assesses and audits the Society's information technology and information security risks and activities, to includethe identification of key risk areas for inclusion in audit engagements.

You will have varied but strong experience of information technology infrastructure components required to operate and manage enterprise IT environments including, hardware, software, networking components, operating systems, and data storage environments.

You will be familiar with the activities required for the CIDO / IT function to deliver IT and Information Security services and solutions.

You will be comfortable with cloud based architectures and services delivered as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

You will be comfortable working with relatively complex and technical areas of Society technology risk management and control activity such that you can prepare and complete audit engagement planning documentation, including Terms of Reference and Risk & ControlsMatrix documents for reviews to be undertaken.

Such documentation must include the identification of key risks and controls through discussions with finance colleagues and the review of processes and documentation.

As directed, you will be able to competently define the approach and manage the audit planning process of reviews being undertaken to ensure the Internal Audit team's audit approach is met.

Additionally, you will be able to ensure that risk and control assessment,testing, reporting and file documentation comply with departmental and IIA standards and are delivered to a high quality for reviews.

You'll need to be comfortable with formally reporting control and compliance deficiencies to technology, and potentially business, senior management on a timely basis following audit completion, in order to highlight areas of weakness and ensure that commerciallysound, practical recommendations are made.

You'll then need to evaluate the remediation delivered by management to ensure that it provides for a permanent and sustainable control improvement.

You will contribute to and/or lead closing audit meetings to discuss findings and agree appropriate management action to reduce exposure to risks identified.

Taking a position to ensure potentially contentious issues are promptly identified and discussed willalso be important.
You will have the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships through good stakeholder management skills. You will need to work collaboratively to meet business needs and actively consider different perspectives, using tact and sensitivity.

You will possess strong interpersonal, analytical, presentation, analysis and communication skills and be comfortable working across many levels and departments within the Society.

You will be a competent report writer, being able to present views effectively,deal with challenge and ultimately gain support for your personal conclusions and opinions.

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