Assistant Vice President, Audit Management, IT Risk & Control

MUFG; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial group is seeking an External Audit Coordinator to manage external audits and liaise with technology teams. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in risk management and governance with excellent communication skills. Responsibilities include tracking audit statuses and ensuring effective action plans are in place to mitigate risks. Opportunities for flexible working arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in technology / risk management / governance / internal / external audit.
• Strong ability to prioritize and make effective decisions.
• Excellent planning and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Liaise between external auditors and technology teams.
• Track and report audit deficiencies and actions.
• Review audit evidence for completeness and accuracy.

Skills

Technical background

Risk management

Governance

Strong communication skills

Problem solving

Job description

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do. We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

This 1LoD role is to support and coordinate the management of primarily external audits, alongside management of the lifecycle of deficiencies arising from these engagements. You will be required to liaise between internal stakeholders and external auditors, ensuring timely and accurate responses to audit requests, checking information used to respond to audit queries is complete accurate and timely. You will be required to assess audit findings and work with stakeholders to ensure accuracy and relevant and risk assess any compensating control activities.

The role will sit across all IT SOX external audits for technology in the UK and also those audits conducted in the UK impacting other MUFG branches.

Once an audit is complete and findings are raised you will assist technology teams to develop management action plans to ensure risks are mitigated and actions are sustainable and efficient.

Producing clear and informative communications and reporting to highlight the status of audits and issues.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Liaison with Technology Teams: Act as a the primary point of contact between external audit teams and technology teams, ensuring that audit requests are understood, roles are clarified, and the necessary information is provided in timely manner.
• Audit Issue Management: Track and report on the status of external audit deficiencies to ensure actions are on track.
• Quality Assurance: Review and validate audit responses and evidence to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Stakeholder Advisory: Provide guidance to the technology on how to respond to audit findings, and ensuring that action plans are appropriate to mitigate risks.
• Process and Control Improvement: Identifying opportunities for process and control improvements to improve efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness in audit processes.
• Support for Internal Audits: You may also be asked to assist in supporting internal audit management activities, including gathering evidence and helping assess potential risks.

Main tasks

• Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors during the IT SOX audits.
• Coordinated audit evidence collection from internal teams.
• Ensure audit requests are tracked, fulfilled, and documented appropriately and on time.
• Review and validate audit responses and evidence to ensure completeness and accuracy before uploading it to external audit tool.
• Manage the technology audit calendar and ensure stakeholder readiness for audits.
• Support walkthroughs, meetings, and technical discussions between internal teams and auditors.
• Run pre-audit checks on and ensure remediation is completed for any issues found before start of the external audits.
• Assisting technology teams in reviewing findings, responding to audits and where required defining action plans.
• Developing ways to improve the efficiency of audits and issue management including the use of data analytics, AI and process improvement.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong technical background with 3 + years’ experience in technology / risk management / governance / internal / external audit
• Understanding of SOX and external audit.
• Ability to make sense of complex situations and rapidly prioritise issues to take effective decisions in a commercial manner.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks to tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.
• Ability to build relationships and influence with stakeholders at all levels including senior internal and external audit management and technology management.
• Ability to communicate complex information to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to work on own without direction.
• Has strong planning, communication (both written and oral) and presentation skills.
• Strong reporting and process skills to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of our operating environment.
• Able to work in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
• Strong numerical skills

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.

At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!

Our Culture Principles

• Client Centric
• People Focused
• Listen Up. Speak Up.
• Innovate & Simplify
• Own & Execute