Head - Internal Audit/Operations - Bank

Head of Internal Audit- Operations

Join us as our Head of Audit, Operations:

In this role, you'll be providing independent assurance and helping with the delivery of the internal audit by designing an effective audit strategy and reporting entity opinions.

- Day-to-day, you'll be influencing impacted divisional opinions while delivering a risk-based audit plan that can provide impactful independent assurance.

- This is your opportunity to become a key advisor to the board to influence the direction of the bank while growing your network and having your views valued and heard.

- This role is available at Director level

What you'll do:

- You'll lead all audits in your area of responsibility and set standards of excellence for our business through coaching and guidance.

- Not only will you execute and refine your audit plan in relation to your area of business, but you'll work with the business audit teams on integrated audit delivery.

- We'll look to you to use business intelligence to provide targeted assurance in your strategy while being responsible for business, market, or regulatory developments.

- You'll become a valuable business partner to your management team and allocate resources within your audit portfolio.

You'll also be:

- Reviewing and approving all audit deliverables for coverage, quality, and positioning

- Creating entity reports and providing opinions to influence executive management, to inform our audit committee and to manage risk within our risk appetite.

- Building a high-performance culture as a strategic leader while managing the performance and recruitment of the extended team and helping to provide career opportunities.

- Managing your team while they carry out audits to help form plans while making sure the progress, scope and quality standards of the audits are met.

The skills you'll need:

- To be successful in this role, you'll need to have extensive knowledge and experience of financial services and internal auditing.

- We'll also expect you to have previously managed large audit teams running multiple portfolios across Tech, Operations, and Finance.

- You'll have knowledge of technology and business operations audit and facing off to regulators, boards, and senior stakeholders.

- Along with considerable audit exposure and experience with the delivery of operations covering retail, vendor, finance, non- finance, and HR, you'll ideally have a background in lines of defence.

You'll also need:

- An understanding of risk management and how to form and execute an effective audit strategy.

- Knowledge of risk management, the control framework and governance processes that can help locate and control weaknesses and provide ongoing assurance

- Excellent communication skills and an ability to influence effectively on assurance matters

- Outstanding senior business colleague and stakeholder relationship building skills.