IT Audit Specialist - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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This is an opportunity to join a high performing, diverse and well-regarded Group Internal Audit (GIA) function where the Chief Internal Auditor and all staff are committed to working in an inclusive, innovative, and caring way that supports the continuousimprovement of both the function and its personnel.

In a recent independent External Quality Assessment in 2021, GIA was recognised as being a strong, well-respected, and valued function and benchmarked as a 'leading' function.

In joining the function, youwill have the opportunity to contribute to GIA's ongoing development and innovation as well as be supported in the development of your own career within Internal Audit.


Head of Audit

About the Role

Level: 4


Department:
Internal Audit


Location:
Southampton, United Kingdom or London, United Kingdom


Contract type:
Fixed Term Contract


Contract Duration: 9 months


This role will contribute to the effective delivery of IT and business audits across Quilter's Internal Audit Plan, to help the Board, Executive Management and the Audit and Risk Committees of Quilter protect the assets, reputation, and sustainability ofthe organisation.


The role does this by:

  • Assessing whethern all significant risks are identified and appropriately reported by Management and the Risk function to the Board, Executive Management and the Audit and Risk Committees of Quilter.
  • Assessing whether risks are adequately controlled; and
  • Finding ways to improve the effectiveness of governance, risk management and the system of internal controls.


As a GIA Audit Specialist, you will develop a thorough understanding of Quilter's business processes in scope for assigned audits.

You will be responsible for working on multiple audit assignments, delivering to deadlines and budgets and in accordance withGIA methodology and agreed quality standards.

Additionally, you will manage and perform Issue Assurance activities on a quarterly basis and support continuous risk monitoring and annual audit planning activities within the team to influence the audit plan.

This may include participation in regular stakeholdercatch-up meetings, review of business MI/activity (financial results, incidents MI, complaints MI etc.).

While GIA leverage digital tools to communicate with colleagues across our various office locations, there may be a small and limited amount of flexible travel required, depending on the audit engagement.


About You
Applications from people with diverse backgrounds enables our inclusive organisation to thrive.

If you feel you don't match our job description exactly, why not take a chance on yourself and apply? You could be exactly what this role needs.

To succeed in this role, you will have experience performing a risk and controls focused role, e.g. Internal or External Audit, Risk or Compliance.

You will have a good understanding of IT and business risk and controls in the Financial Services environmentand knowledge of the Financial Services regulatory environment.

Specifically, you will have an understanding of fundamental ITGCs including logical access, change management and IT operations at a minimum, as well as the ability to articulate audit issuesin a business context.

Ideally you will have a relevant specialised qualification, for example ACA, ACCA, CISA, IMC, CFA or other Internal Audit or Risk Management certification.


You will be comfortable questioning convention and staying curious, persevering to get the right outcomes whilst pragmatically balancing control environment and commerciality concerns, acting with objectivity and independence and demonstrating strong personalintegrity.

You will be able to effectively prioritise, listen to include new perspectives and be able to produce high quality outputs (for example audit workpapers, draft issues, summary reporting).


You will also be someone who acts as a role model for the Quilter values - Pioneering, Dependable and Stronger Together.

Someone who works collaboratively, is committed to learning and personal development and embraces change and initiates new and betterways of working to deliver positive customer outcomes.

Our purpose is to help the generations today and tomorrow to prosper.

That means we must guide people through the complexity of planning for their future, with the right financial advice and investment solutions, so that they can have more secure financialfutures.


In this ever-changing world, we see that our role in society has never been more meaningful, and we are committed to using our expertise and care to guide our customers through these challenging and unprecedented times.

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