Audit Senior Manager

NAB; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable financial services firm in the City of London is seeking an experienced audit professional to oversee the planning and execution of a portfolio of audits. The successful candidate will have over 5 years in risk-based financial services, possess tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance, or IT, and be skilled in project management. This role requires strong communication capabilities and a proactive approach to risk management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial services risk-based functions or internal audit in professional services firms.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning, execution, and reporting of audit activities.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to colleagues.
• Program manage a small portfolio of concurrent audits.
• Draft succinct audit reports.
• Proactively manage risks and compliance requirements.

Skills

Risk and controls understanding

Highly organised

Project Management

Communicating with influence

Working with data

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance or IT

Job description

NAB City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Purpose: Oversee the planning, execution and reporting of a small simultaneous portfolio of Audit activity as set out in the Audit Charter and the annual Audit Plan.

Essential capabilities & skills

• Risk and controls understanding
• Highly organised
• Project Management
• Communicating with influence
• Working with data

Experience

• 5+ years in financial services risk-based functions or internal audit in professional services firms.
• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance or IT.

Key Accountabilities

• Behave in line with NAB's values.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to colleagues to promote a performance and development culture.
• Program manage a small portfolio of concurrent audits (2-4) within agreed resource and time budgets.
• Contribute to Annual and Dynamic Planning as directed.
• Provide strategic guidance to audit team leads on scope (risks and hypotheses) and approach, including completion of advanced pre-planning in partnership with the Delivery Head of.
• Support team leads to create succinct and clear audit assignment plans that reflect agreed scope as per the Audit plan.
• Draft succinct and clear audit reports.
• Socialise audit report content with business contacts and manage negotiation to audit report finalisation.
• Resolve audit delivery issues escalated by audit team leads and escalate where they cannot be directly solved.
• Coordinate verification of audit raised issues within internal SLA targets once the business indicate issues are closed, ensuring this is supported by quality workpapers.
• Form effective ongoing working relationships with business contacts to facilitate delivery of audits.
• Provide timely ongoing performance feedback and career coaching to direct reports.
• Proactively manage risk; meet all policy and compliance requirements; perform controls; adhere to processes and procedures pertinent to the role; and escalate events, issues or breaches as they are identified.

Note: This refined description focuses on the core responsibilities and qualifications of the role while removing boilerplate and extraneous content from the original text.