Global Investment banking firm with a strong footprint across EMEA, USA and Asia are looking for an experienced IT Applications Audit professional to join their EMEA IT Audit division.

The nature of the bank’s business is within the wholesale / global markets space hence front office reviews will be part of your wider mandate, whilst the main focus will be within Support functions including Finance and Operations. Experience of client money, transaction reporting, collateral settlements would be a huge advantage.

The role offers a wealth of opportunities for those wanting to deepen their technical knowledge, take leadership of projects, work on high profile engagements, face-off to regulators and progress further in their career. You will be part of a deeply technical IT Audit team who have consistently added value, hence the expectations are high but you will gain enormously from a thriving organisation.

Essential skills:

• * Strong working knowledge of IT Applications Audit or Technology Risk Management with sound understanding of risk and control
• * Sound understanding of Corporate Division / Support functions within an Investment Bank and technology which are relevant to these business areas
• * Experience of managing projects / leading Audit engagements
• * Ability to identify key risks and make sound judgement
• * Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• * Ability to build relationship with stakeholders/ auditees/ external parties i.e. regulators
• * Experience in coaching and managing junior staff
• * Ability to lead regional and / or global projects
• * Experience of data analytical tools

This major banking group seeks a strong IT Auditor to conduct reviews across all of the bank’s technology infrastructure. You should possess detailed knowledge of at least two of the following technology platforms:

• * Operating systems – UNIX, LINUX, Windows
• * Networks – Cisco
• * Firewalls
• * Databases – SQL, Sybase, Oracle
• * Datacentres

Specific banking experience is not essential, as candidates with appropriate experience gained in the internal audit function of a practice firm will be considered. This is an outstanding opportunity to develop your career within a major banking group as a  Senior IT Infrastructure Auditor, where you will be well rewarded.

Our client is a European Investment Bank with a global presence. They are looking to appoint a senior VP in IT Audit in their London Office. Covering a wide range of products including commodities, debt and equities markets, and asset management, this role offers the right candidate a great opportunity to gain a wide breadth of experience, and provides the opportunity to develop their career within a highly experienced team. Using an integrated audit approach the role will focus on application reviews mainly within the fixed income business, however there will also be some opportunity to develop within the infrastructure space, and to work on associated projects.

Requirements for VP IT Audit role:
* Degree educated with relevant IT Audit qualifications
* Significant experience of auditing Investment Banking Applications particularly front office applications
* A strong technical background, ideally with some relevant application development experience

Internal Auditor Compliance and AML job

Our client, a Tier 1 Institution, is seeking an experienced senior internal auditor (compliance and AML) 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.

My client, a Top tier Investment Bank are looking for a Senior Business Audit Manager or a junior Audit VP from a Bank to join their progressive organisation. The remit of the role will mainly focus on key Business Infrastructure such as Support functions including Finance, Operations, Treasury, Compliance, HR etc.

As part of the Corporate Audit team, the role will enable you to work on challenging and varied projects, acquire strong business knowledge across the Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Investment Management divisions. You will lead interesting and complex projects, face off to regulators and manage stakeholder relationships.

The organisation offers excellent career progression opportunities and is one of the few banks which provide a platform for internal mobility and promotion within Audit, Business and specialist subject areas. The Audit function comprise highly technical, talented and driven senior professionals from other tier 1 institutions, which subsequently helped to create a deep and strong Audit team, hence are looking for high calibre Audit professionals who will help maintain their high standard.

Essential skills:
* Degree educated and qualified Audit professionals from a Bank
* Wholesale/ Global Markets / Investment Banking background would be preferred but would consider Auditors from Retail and Corporate Bank
* Experience of auditing support functions would be a huge advantage, equally would suit a Capital Markets auditor with an interest in diversifying their experience across to other business functions within a bank
* Strong analytical and technical skills
* Excellent communication skills
* Experience of leading projects, coaching and managing junior auditors
* Strong time and project management skills
* Deep working knowledge of risk and control
* Ability to engage and build relationship with auditees

A tier 1 banking institution are seeking a Banking Internal Audit AVP to join their Market Risk Audit team. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and an experienced internal auditor looking for a new challenge within a globally reputable organisation.

Your main focus will be to support the market risk audit team hence a sound working knowledge of model risk is essential which includes all aspects of management from model governance, validation, documentation, inventory and use. However, this is not a box ticking role, you will be expected to be proactive, articulate issues and negotiate effective results.

The organisation encourages upward mobility and develop internally hence they have a preference for highly intelligent individuals who are also ambitious, charismatic and energetic, hence you must possess strong technical ability as well as strong communication and interpersonal skills.

This is an excellent career move for an individual with a sound background in Model Validation, Model Development, or Market Risk Audit.
Our client is seeking and experienced Model or Market Risk Auditor or Practitioner to join their internal audit team. The successful candidate will hold a maths or science degree or post graduate qualification with prior experience in financial services and/or banking. The role involves looking at all aspects of Market Risk Audit, including Model Validation, VAR, Stress Testing Valuation, Model Building, and Model Development, across the business. As this is a VP level role, previous in depth experience in this area is essential.
The ideal candidate will have experience in the audit field, however, practitioners are also invited to apply, as this role is effectively that of Market Risk SME within the Internal audit team, and relevant audit training will be afforded. Excellent communication skills are required, to develop and maintain positive working relationships as part of this small specialised team.

Essential:

• Experience of Market Risk Models, Model Validation, VAR, Stress Testing and Model Development.
• Ability to work as part of a small but high level team.

Our client, a large global consultancy with a number of high profile banking clients, is seeking an experienced professional from a Risk / Audit division of a UK Investment Bank to join their Capital Markets Audit team.

This is an excellent professional role where you will employ your understanding of front, middle and back office control issues across a variety of clients and risk issues.

Essential:

• 2-10 years financial services experience (Capital Markets, Sales and Trading sectors are essential) within an Audit, Risk, Compliance or Controls role.
• Good degree and strong academic record.
• Part qualified or fully qualified accountant, CFA or relevant postgraduate qualification.

Our client, a tier 1 Bank is seeking an IT Applications Audit Associate VP to join their Internal Audit team. 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 standard. 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 among team members.

Reporting to the Local Head of Risk Management Audit and the Global Head of Quant Analytics, this Model Validation Audit role is a key position in both the Risk Audit and Quantitative Analytics Group supporting Model Validation.

You must have strong quantitative skills and market risk knowledge as a practitioner with experience in major asset classes. In particular the successful individual will conduct reviews of risk management and capital models.

You will have experience in VaR methodology, including the Regulatory stressed VaR, Incremental Risk Charge and the comprehensive risk measure., in addition to in depth understanding of the derivative pricing models. There is an expectation for the successful candidate to develop some knowledge of credit and operational risk models.

You will have regular communication with the Global Senior Risk Managers to discuss market trends, model enhancements as well as lend independent advice to various committees dealing with model validation and enhancements.

Skills for Model Validation Audit:

• Masters or Ph.D. in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Mathematical Finance, Physics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in model development, model review or model validation audit with a financial institution within interest rates, FX pricing models, equities, credit, SPG and commodities, with good understanding of model risk control and measurement.
• In-depth knowledge of mathematical finance, derivatives pricing, and numerical techniques for derivatives valuation (Monte Carlo simulation, partial differential equations, numerical analysis, probability theory, etc.)
• Build credible relationships with senior management in the Risk function.
• Ability to programme pricing models for derivatives is preferable (MATLAB, C++)
• Being able to clearly document findings in work papers to ensure they meet internal standards.