Our client, a Tier 1 Institution, is seeking an experienced senior auditor to join a small internal audit team with responsibility for compliance across the organisation. Using expert understanding of the regulatory frameworks and developments impacting  on financial services and drawing on prior experience in a similar environment, the successful candidate will play a key role in all aspects of the internal audit process.

Essential Skills:

Prior experience in a similar compliance role within a tier 1 bank or financial services organisation.

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

Professional qualification

Excellent communication skills

Proven track record developing and maintaining strong working relationships with team members, senior managers and stakeholders.

Our client is a Tier 1 European Bank. They are seeking two experienced technology auditors to join the Internal Audit Function of their London office. One post at VP level, the other for an AVP.

With a financial services background gained in a large bank or investment firm, the ideal candidate will use their prior experience in IT applications audit to maintain the organisation’s rigorous internal audit standards. Of particular interest will be  candidates with experience auditing areas of Fixed Income, Market Risk and Equities.

The successful candidate will use excellent communication skills to develop and maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders and senior management, in addition to facilitating a culture of shared knowledge and experience with team members.

For the junior role, candidates who are currently working with a Practice firm, and who have had experience working for banking clients will be considered.

Essential Skills:

Degree educated or related experience

A professional IT audit qualification

Our client, a major London based Investment Bank, is seeking an experienced professional to join their Internal Audit Capital Markets Team.

The ideal candidate will have considerable experience in the audit of front office capital markets trading. Ideally this experience will be with a major financial institution, although candidates from a Practice background with relevant experience in Internal Auditing or Consulting for Investment Banking clients are also welcome to apply.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience
• Professional accountancy qualification

Our client, a large global bank with a strong European presence, is seeking an experienced Auditor to join the Investment Management and Asset Management function of their internal audit team.

A strong background in financial services is essential, with three to five years experience in Investment Management. The successful candidate will have a broad range of experience, covering areas from Real Estate Fund Management and Fund Administration to UCITS, and other regulatory requirements.

With excellent communication and writing skills and experience conducting audits, the successful candidate will be able to establish and maintain positive working relationships with all stakeholders from team members to senior management.

Essential

• Degree educated, preferably with a relevant business subject such as economics or accountancy. Three years PQE experience within Investment Management Internal Audit
• Accountancy or audit qualification

Our client, a leading global financial services firm is seeking a Vice President to join their Risk reporting team.

This is a rare opportunity to take on a new role within an expanding team. It will require excellent project management skills, team leadership and relationship skills to help define and build the scope of the division.

At first you will focus on building the Risk Control Monitoring framework with the view to eventually establishing an integrated Business Oversight function.

With a background in a large European or US bank, the successful candidate will have recent supervisory experience and a track record of developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with team members, stakeholders and senior managers.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for improving the overall efficiency of the function and in developing controls and risks across other risk reporting areas.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent Banking Controls Risk knowledge

• Experience of creating and Managing Controls teams

• Experience in dealing with Reporting issues

• A strong understanding of Risk Reporting and it’s application to the business and regulators.

• Expert understanding of SOX.

• Excellent communication skills

• Degree educated or equivalent experience

• Five years’ minimum experience in traded products and risks and controls

• Project management in change controls.

• Previous experience improving a Banking control environment.

Our client, a tier one European bank with a clear structure is seeking an experienced internal auditor VP to join their Internal Audit  Energy Trading team. Playing a pivotal role on this team, you will have demonstrable experience leading and developing junior team members as well as participating in all aspects of internal audit from planning to execution. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and client management skills.

Essential skills:

• Degree educated or equivalent experience.
• Relevant professional qualification (ACA).
• Excellent understanding of risks and controls in traded products.
• Prior experience auditing Energy Trading products.

A leading financial services firm is seeking a senior Internal Auditor to join their Internal Audit (Finance with Technology) team. The successful candidate will have worked in a similar controls role in a large European or American bank or an external audit position with a Big 4 firm at Manager level working with financial services client groups.
You will audit all functions within the finance and accounting space including: financial accounting, accounting records and policy as well as corporate / regulatory reporting, valuations, payroll and Tax. You will also have expert understanding of the UK regulatory environment.
Using strong communication skills to maintain excellent working relationships with team members, stakeholders and senior management, you will be experienced in all aspects of internal audit; from planning to writing the final report.

Essential:

• Relevant professional qualification, preferably ACA.
• Excellent communication skills
• Prior experience in internal or external audit consultancy within a UK / US Bank
• Excellent working understanding of the UK financial services regulatory environment

This role would suit someone seeking a solid foundation for a career in market risk within a tier one bank, from an accountancy, risk reporting or data analyst background.

The successful candidate will provide support to Risk Managers for reporting and monitoring stress exposures for the Investment Bank. You will provide Var P&L for reporting and analysis purposes and maintain data quality understand key market movements and stress changes, whilst maintaining strong relationships with Product Control, Finance, and Technology Risk.

The successful candidate will have three to five years’ experience in a financial services role dealing with traded products, with equities/FX experience preferred.  The ideal candidate will enjoy working in an environment with strict deadlines responding to a wide variety of requests for risk data analysis (VAR and PNL).

The group is responsible for daily limit reports controlling the exposure for risk and manages breaches. The group also project manage wider risk issues including Volker and enhancement initiatives for risk reporting infrastructure.

Essential Skills

• Analytical skills and attention to detail

• Undergraduate Degree

• VBA programming experience and advanced understanding of excel

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

• Experience from a US or European Banking group.

Our client, a large financial services organisation with a global presence is seeking an experienced Senior Market Risk professional to join their market risk team with a strong track record in controls of traded credit or market risk.  The ideal candidate will have considerable experience handling large volumes of data and identifying gaps and trends impacting on risks and conveying complex analysis and requests to clients, stakeholders and senior management.   You will manage Strategic Risk reporting and programs to increase the functions performance.

Essential Skills

• Analytical skills and attention to detail

• Undergraduate Degree

• Excellent communication skills

• People management experience

• Minimum of five years’ experience in traded product/market risk controls in a US or UK regulated Bank.

• Demonstrable project management experience

Our client is expanding their Internal Audit function and is seeking a VP Internal Auditor to join their Automated Systems (data) team. With a background in financial services or large European bank, as a specialist in data audit or data analysis, the successful candidate will have:

• Experience planning , scoping and executing audit plans

• Team management experience

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal

• Experience analysing datasets using SQL or SAS

• Excellent understanding of the risks and controls governing financial data including any developments in regulations.

• Degree educated or equivalent qualification

• Professional qualification