Senior IT Audit/Risk Manager - 12 month Fixed - Term Contract

My client, an international Banking organisation, are looking for a Senior IT Audit Manager to join their growing team in London. This is a 12 month Fixed-Term Contract for someone who is on maternity leave. They are happy to consider candidates from 1st - 3rd line of defence.

For this role the expectation is to be in the office two times per week. Unfortunately, my client does not offer sponsorship.

About the Senior IT Audit Manager Role:

You'll oversee the end-to-end execution of audits and related action follow up through effective planning and relationship management, manage quality across the portfolio as necessary and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues delivering on your behalf. You'll also contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of colleagues through teamwork, collaboration and effective management of resources into change initiatives. Provide career coaching and mentoring to direct report and colleagues in the pool to foster a positive and high-performing team culture.

Responsibilities:

* Actively oversee the detailed scope and delivery of a significant number of audits in the audit plan and where necessary directly lead particularly complex audits within the portfolio

Payments experience ie Chaps is a non-negotiable

* Ensure appropriate planning for Audits in your portfolio, including selecting and supporting Engagement Leads who will project manage individual audits on your behalf.

* Oversee progress, and manage the quality of audit delivery, make appropriate judgements as to when automated or data driven testing is most effective, and keep Audit and Business leadership informed regarding status, risks and other relevant insights.

* Collaborate with resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on portfolio.

* Manage relationship with, provide assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls to business colleagues.

* Proactively suggests and delivers innovating thinking by bringing the outside in.

* Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive different ways to contribute and shape direction for the team Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.

* Act as a career coach, performance manager, or pastoral (line) manager, if applicable, to a number of colleagues within the pool.

* Provide timely, direct and effective feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of direct reports and other team members.

What you'll need:

* Experience of auditing private and public cloud platforms, software development life cycle, DevOps and modern engineering practices and tools.

* Experience of auditing payments products, front-to-back processes, and strong knowledge of Payments regulations. Experience of identifying key risks associated with the use of technology in business processes, applying IT controls knowledge to audit automated IT/business controls, and influence implementation of controls by design during transformation initiatives. Highly skilled in writing and agreeing high quality findings and audit reports.

* Ability to challenge change delivery outcome(s) and identify risks/issues/dependencies that may impact agreed outcomes including time, cost, and quality.

* The ability to lead and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development, including the ability to prioritize your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and value-added delivery.

* The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and priorities, connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to strategy at the Macro level

* The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes.

* Strong communication to effectively manage and influence senior relationships independently whilst building credibility and trust. And any experience of these would be really useful:

* Good understanding of industry trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI), IT application development (eg cloud native apps) capabilities. Google Cloud, Azure or AWS Cloud certification or equivalent. Extensive experience of working in Internal/External Audit or a Risk Function with a good knowledge of financial products in Banking and Insurance.

If the above is of interest please apply to this role to find out more or call me on to find out more information. Alternatively you can send me your CV to (see below)

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