Audit Manager - Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I)

lloyds banking group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group is seeking an Audit Manager in Bristol to support audits in Insurance, Pensions & Investments. The role involves managing audits, ensuring effective communication, and enhancing compliance processes. Ideal candidates will have experience in the relevant sectors and strong communication skills. The position offers a hybrid working model and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

A range of wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Knowledge of insurance, pensions or investments products.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyze and communicate data to drive effective audit outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the audit plan and project manage individual audits.
• Support control testing and identify areas of concern.
• Propose improvements in compliance processes.

Skills

Knowledge of insurance, pensions or investments products

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to analyze data

Ability to prioritize workload

Job description

Job Description Summary

JOB TITLE: Audit Manager

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh & Bristol

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

Group Audit and Conduct Investigations (GA&CI) has an exciting opportunity for you to join as an Audit Manager specialising in Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I). Would you like the opportunity to participate in audits that make a meaningful impact to how the Group supports our customers at key moments in their life?

You’ll also contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI through a strategic and integrated audit focus, collaboration and agile delivery methods.

Day to day, you will

• Contribute to the audit plan, supporting the portfolio lead by project managing individual audits on their behalf.
• Support control testing and identify areas of concern, articulating the potential challenge.
• Support senior colleagues build meaningful stakeholder relationships whilst making their own connections
• Proactively suggest & deliver improvements in current compliance processes by being bold.
• Conduct research considering multiple perspectives and brings the outside in to enable analysis of key themes and external trends.
• Actively role model the Group values and behaviours.
• Put the team first by coaching with purpose, being present with the team and openly communicating expectations.
• Freely share insight and timely, direct, effective feedback that contributes to the success of the delivery plan and leaves a positive, sustainable impact on the function.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) owns Scottish Widows making it the only integrated banking, insurance and investment provider in the UK. As such, LBG has a unique opportunity to help customers manage their finances today, while at the same time helping them plan for tomorrow.

For over two centuries, Scottish Widows has been trusted by millions of people to prepare for retirement and protect their families against the worst that could happen.

Scottish Widows continues to evolve and adapt, investing billions in our people, data and tech to meet our customers’ ever-changing needs.

Through our deep understanding of the insurance, pensions and investments industry, GA&CI plays a key role in helping the business support customers and deliver change safely. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need

• Knowledge of insurance, pensions or investments products.
• The ability to lead and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development.
• The ability to deliver risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued by stakeholders.
• The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the Macro level.
• The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to prioritize your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and value-added delivery.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience of using Agile project management principles to deliver audits.
• Understanding of direct to consumer investment platforms and products.
• Understanding of the investment fund structures and regulated activities.

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. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we\'re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we\'ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We\'ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.