Senior Audit Manager - Payments, Technology & Transformation (12 month FTC) End Date: Monday 03 November 2025 Salary: £90,440 - £144,694 (dependant on location) Location: London, Bristol & Edinburgh Hours: Full-time Working Pattern: Hybrid (at least 2 days per week at a hub location) 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 and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues. 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 reports and colleagues in the pool to foster a positive and high‑performing team culture. Day to day, you will

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, making appropriate judgments 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 the resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on the portfolio. Manage relationships with business colleagues, providing assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls. Proactively suggest and deliver innovative thinking by bringing the outside in. Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive different ways to contribute and shape direction for the team. Actively role‑model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others. Act as a career coach, performance manager, or pastoral (line) manager, if applicable, to a number of colleagues within the pool. Provide timely, direct and effective feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of direct reports and other team members.

What you’ll need

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 influencing implementation of controls by design during transformation initiatives. Highly skilled in writing and agreeing high‑quality findings and audit reports. Ability to challenge change delivery outcomes and identify risks/issues/dependencies that may impact agreed outcomes, including time, cost and quality. The ability to lead and take ownership for delivery, and champion colleagues’ growth and development, including the ability to prioritise your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and value‑added delivery. The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit strategy and priorities, connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to strategy at the macro level. The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes. Strong communication to effectively manage and influence senior relationships independently while building credibility and trust.

And any experience of these would be really useful

Good understanding of industry trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI), IT application development (e.g. cloud native apps) capabilities. Google Cloud, Azure or AWS Cloud certification or equivalent. Extensive experience of working in internal/external audit or a risk function with a good knowledge of financial products in banking and insurance.

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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 A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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