Senior Audit Manager - Platforms & Engineering

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group is seeking a Portfolio Lead for their Group Audit team in Edinburgh. This role involves executing audits, managing relationships, and ensuring effective risk management. The candidate should possess strong critical thinking and communication skills, with experience in technology audits. The company promotes an inclusive culture and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience auditing private and public cloud platforms.
• Strong project management skills to multitask effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape the Audit plan, delivering risk and control assurance.
• Manage relationships with senior executives and colleagues.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Project Management

Communication

Tools

Agile Change

AI

Software Development

Job description

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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 office sites.

Do you want to play a leading role in influencing how the Group delivers its technology and business transformation as we implement our multi-year strategy?

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Group COO audit team as a Portfolio Lead within Group Audit & Conduct Investigations (GA&CI). As a Portfolio Lead, you'll lead and shape the Audit plan, using deep knowledge of technology and change risks to deliver high-quality, timely, and independent assurance on risk management and internal controls.

Day to day, you will:

• Be responsible for the end-to-end audit execution and related action follow-ups through effective planning and relationship management across a portfolio of audits. Delivering risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful, and valued.
• Prioritise your work and that of others effectively with adaptability to ensure timely and valuable delivery. Understand the critical path for delivery, removing obstacles; planning and preparing to ensure resources are used efficiently and effectively. A drive for personal development and growth, and accountability for your work and behaviours.
• Provide timely, actionable feedback, empower colleagues and contribute to their development through collaboration, career coaching, and mentoring to maintain a positive and high-performing team.
• Lead and own delivery, and champion colleagues' growth and development. Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.
• Understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the macro level.
• Independently undertake business monitoring through regular conversations with senior leaders and representing Group Audit at Committees, to influence decisions.
• Manage relationships with colleagues including senior executives and work collaboratively with colleagues across the function, First and Second Lines of Defence.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need:

• Experience of auditing private and public cloud platforms, software development lifecycle, modern engineering practices, and tools.
• Experience auditing or working on major technology change initiatives.
• Experience of identifying key risks associated with the use of technology in business processes, applying IT controls knowledge to audit automated business controls, and influence implementation of controls by design during transformation initiatives. Highly skilled in writing and agreeing high-quality findings and audit reports.
• Critical thinking ability to use internal, external, business, and technology information to provide forward-looking and impactful insights on current and emerging risks and opportunities.
• Ability to analyze, understand, and communicate data as information, and use data to drive effective audit outcomes.
• Demonstrating strong communication to effectively manage and influence senior relationships independently whilst building credibility and trust.
• Strong project management skills to multitask and succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience of working in Financial Services, Internal/External Audit, or a Risk Function with a good knowledge of financial products in Banking and Insurance.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Agile Change
• AI
• Software Development

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization 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 organizations 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing

Industries

• Banking

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