Audit Specialist | London, UK

Quilter; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Quilter as part of the Internal Audit team to ensure effective governance and risk management in a leading financial services firm. In this role, you will assess risks, engage with stakeholders, and drive improvements in the audit processes, aligning with the company's commitment to sustainability and excellence.

Qualifications

• Understanding of risk and controls in the Financial Services environment.
• Knowledge of the Financial Services regulatory environment.
• Experience in a risk-focused role such as Internal or External Audit, Risk, or Compliance.

Responsibilities

• Assess risks and ensure they are adequately controlled.
• Engage with business unit owners to understand processes.
• Execute audits including planning, fieldwork, and reporting.

Skills

Risk Management

Internal Audit

Data Analytics

Root Cause Analysis

Job description

Summary
Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £119.6 billion in customer investments (as at end March 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level: 4

Department: Internal Audit

Location: London/ Southampton

Contract Type: 12 Month FTC/ Secondment

Non-Regulated

In this role, you will contribute to the effective delivery of audits across Quilter's Internal Audit Plan; to help the Board, Executive Management and the Audit and Risk Committees of Quilter protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the organisation.

Responsibilities include:

• Assessing whether all significant risks are identified and appropriately reported by Management and the Risk function to the Board, Executive Management and the Audit and Risk Committees of Quilter.
• Assessing whether risks are adequately controlled.
• Finding ways to improve the effectiveness of governance, risk management and the system of internal controls.
• Develop a thorough understanding of Quilter's business processes in scope for assigned audits.
• Working on multiple audit assignments, delivering to deadlines and budgets and in accordance with IA methodology and agreed quality standards.
• Execution of audits with involvement at all stages of the audit process including planning, fieldwork and reporting.
• Engage with business unit process owners to understand processes and identify key risks.
• Perform audit testing that is focused on key risks and makes use of techniques such as data analytics.
• Demonstrate application of root cause analysis to drive value add audit findings which reflect the evolving risk and control environment.
• Propose clear, practical and value add actions to address control weaknesses identified.
• Manage and perform Issue Assurance activities on a quarterly basis.
• Ensure key stakeholders are kept abreast of Internal Audit observations during the audit and contribute to developing Internal Audit's relationship with stakeholders beyond the audit.

About You

The successful candidate:

• Understanding of risk and controls in the Financial Services environment.
• Knowledge of the Financial Services regulatory environment.
• Experience working within a risk and controls focused role e.g. Internal or External Audit, Risk or Compliance.

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