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LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol & London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our hub locations.

About this opportunity

You'll oversee the end-to-end execution of audits and related action follow up through effective planning and relationship management, manage quality across the portfolio as necessary and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues delivering on your behalf.

You'll also contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI colleagues through teamwork, collaboration and effective management of resources into change initiatives. Provide career coaching and mentoring to direct report and colleagues in the pool to foster a positive and high-performing team culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively oversee the detailed scope and delivery of a significant number of audits in the audit plan and where necessary directly lead particularly complex audits within the portfolio.
• Ensure appropriate planning for Audits in your portfolio, including selecting and supporting Engagement Leads who will project manage individual audits on your behalf.
• Oversee progress, and manage the quality of audit delivery, make appropriate judgements as to when automated or data driven testing is most effective, and keep Audit and Business leadership informed regarding status, risks and other relevant insights.
• Collaborate with resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on portfolio.
• Manage relationship with, provide assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls to business colleagues.

Requirements:

• Experience of auditing private and public cloud platforms, software development lifecycle, DevOps and modern engineering practices and tools.
• Experience of auditing payments products, front-to-back processes, and strong knowledge of Payments regulations
• Experience of identifying key risks associated with the use of technology in business processes, applying IT controls knowledge to audit automated IT/ business controls, and influence implementation of controls by design during transformation initiatives.
• Ability to challenge change delivery outcome(s) and identify risks/issues/dependencies that may impact agreed outcomes including time, cost, and quality.

What you'll need:

Strong communication to effectively manage and influence senior relationships independently whilst building credibility and trust.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

Benefits:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top