This role would suit someone with a background in internal audit in a large organisation with an interest in Treasury. The successful candidate will be accountable for the standards of reports and plans undertaken by the audit team while maintaining on overall view of the internal audit plan. With excellent communication skills and ability to develop, maintain excellent relations with stakeholders, senior management and your audit team, the Vice President of Treasury Audit will be committed to raising standards within their own team and the organisation as a whole.

Essential:

Proven experience and understanding of control, risk and regulatory issues for liquidity and capital risks. With knowledge of funds transfer pricing and rates submission process as well as an understanding of capital supply versus capital demand and RWA calculations.

Experience with stress testing modelling and those models relating to Liquidity and Capital.

Understanding of the correlation between liquidity buffers, hedging activities and related risks. As well as a parallel understanding of regulatory and financial reporting impacts.

Knowledge of BIPRU and US regulatory requisites over liquidity management and reporting.

Proven experience managing and developing relationships with senior management and team members in a large matrix organisation.

With appropriate qualifications and excellent communications skills, you must have proven experience planning and implementing strategic initiatives.

Considerable experience leading and developing teams as well as maintaining excellent relationships with senior management and stakeholders to effect change and meet targets.

Desirable:

Previous experience in a treasury role with international experience.

This role would suit someone with a background in a large financial services organisation gained in quantitative finance audit with a thorough understanding of traded credit and market risk techniques, BASEL III requirements and emerging regulations.

The successful candidate will be accountable for the standards of reports and plans undertaken by the audit team while maintaining on overall view of the internal audit plan.

Essential

•  Expert knowledge of traded credit/market risk modelling  (CVA, DVA, PFE, VaR, IRC, APR/CRM etc)
• Comprehensive experience of validating and evaluating models
• Thorough understanding of BASEL III credit and market risk requirements in addition to current knowledge of emerging regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships

Desirable

• Programming experience, experience e.g. C++, SQL, Matlab.
• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject
• Managing an audit plan

Working within a function responsible for assuring legal and regulatory obligations for financial services are met, this role involves anticipating, identifying and managing risks across a business. This role would suit someone with a background in compliance audit and comprehensive knowledge of the infrastructure of large investment institutions in financial services.

Reporting directly to the Senior Internal Audit Manager, this role involves advising audit (I had put assessment originally but took it out again) teams of legislative and regulatory frameworks impacting financial services across Eurasia.

Responsibilities

• Using a thorough knowledge of regulatory frameworks and legislation affecting financial services across Europe as the basis for developing and implementing assessment activities including:  process mapping, completing risk assessments, developing audit program and testing procedures
• Providing report content for senior staff and overseeing delivery,  follow up and progression of assessment matters.
• Developing and implementing assessment activities including:  process mapping, completing risk assessments, developing audit program and testing procedures.
• Providing report content for senior staff and overseeing delivery,  follow up and progression of assessment matters.
• Developing excellent working relationships with colleagues to improve function practice, participating in committees as required.
• Mentoring team members and developing own practice through regular meeting with assigned line manager.

 Requirements

Essential

• Educated to degree level or with considerable experience in financial services compliance
• Thorough knowledge of legislation and governing frameworks informing financial services practice across Europe and the Middle East.
• Excellent communication skills and thorough knowledge of industry standard software.
• Willingness to travel

Desirable

• Broad understanding of audit governance
• Multi-lingual

Our client, an international top rated accountancy and advisory firm, is looking for an Information Technology Audit Consultant to join a team working on a wide ranging portfolio of clients, including both commercial clients, and public sector bodies based in either London or Birmingham.

Responsibilities:

• Working with other team members to plan and carry out IT Audits and IT Security assessments.
• Liaising with clients over assignment planning and debriefs.
• Writing up draft reports for senior managers

Requirements:

• A sound IT background, preferably with an IT based degree
• Audit experience is required, with a relevant audit qualification, such as CISA.
• A confident personality, with the ability to work well as a team member, and also the ability to liaise directly with clients to present reports and findings.

Our client, an international top rated accountancy and advisory firm, is looking for a senior technical Auditor (probably someone working at an Audit Manager level) based in London or Birmingham.  Working closely with the Senior Management Team, you will have direct responsibility for a team of auditors, covering a portfolio of clients across the South East of England. This role offers a unique development opportunity to work alongside the line Partner on Business Development projects, and for the right candidate, the possibility to move upwards towards Partnership. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE THE COMMERCIAL AND TECHNICAL APTITUDE FOR PARTNERSHIP THIS ROLE IS FOR YOU.

Responsibilities

Management of a wide ranging portfolio of clients, including public sector bodies, and large commercial clients.

Working in conjunction with the Partner on business development strategy including involvement in preparing proposals and presentations.

Direct managerial responsibility for a team of auditors

Scoping and planning of audits for your team, as well as directly participating in some aspects of the audits.

Requirements

• Probably currently an Audit Manager (although Senior Managers are also welcome you should possess sound technical audit background with an IT Audit qualification such as CISA.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Ideally have a wide range of client exposure and contacts, ideally from a consultancy background.
• Some previous experience of working on client proposals as part of a business development team.

Working within an independent function that reports directly to the CEO, this role involves anticipating, identifying and managing risks across the business. This role would suit someone with a background in technology audit and comprehensive knowledge of the infrastructure of large investment institutions in financial services.

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in technology audit across different functions
• Using practice to assist in working towards strategic audit objectives/goals in those areas of accountability.
• Building and maintaining good working relationships with colleagues and customers to facilitate the audit function.
• Routinely using critical analysis to inform audit practice and advise customers.
• A thorough knowledge of current theory, practice and advances.

Requirements:

• Degree level or equivalent experience with professional accreditation.
• Works collaboratively with excellent communication skills.
• Using critical analysis to inform practice while retaining a view of the overall aims of the business.
• An ability to distil information and make concise decisions when faced with competing priorities.
• Experience in capital markets, related technologies and associated risks gained in a similar organisation.

This post would suit someone with a background covering a broad range of audit experience within wealth management. As part of the routine duties the role will involve evaluating business divisions to ensure compliance and financial targets are met and strategic and operational objectives.

The role is based within an independent team reporting directly to the Risk Committee and Chairman of the Board. With an exemplary track record in reporting, planning and performing audits, you will leverage these skills across the Wealth Management businesses covering both the UK and Jersey.

Responsibilities

– Assessing and analysing key risks, including: compliance, know-your-client, legal, money-laundering, operational and suitability. Evaluating the effectiveness of the controls addressing the key risks.

– Providing solutions to issues identified that are innovative and practical. Preparing clear reports on findings for senior management at local, functional, group and global levels.

– Monitoring developments within risk profiles

– Providing input for planning sessions.

Skills

– A background in audit with thorough knowledge of regulatory requirements and expectations.

– Sound knowledge of key risks in wealth management; their controls and how best to manage them.

– A fluent English speaker, you will have excellent communication skills and experience in presenting to senior management, providing recommendations and opinions. You will work well in a team in addition to having experience leading audits for specific tasks.

Leading the Credit Risk Audit team in the UK and liaising with global counterparties….

This role would suit someone with strong experience of counterparty credit risk, either as an auditor or as a credit risk analyst with report writing ability or previous audit / controls experience.

As part of the team completing the annual audit, the role will involve reporting to the Board Audit Committee and senior management; providing recommendations for areas of improvement and evaluation of the risk monitoring process and its capability.

The successful candidate will also advise on credit risk across Internal Audit and act as ‘knowledge expert’ to the financial markets teams on products relating to credit risk. You will also have the opportunity to gain exposure of operational market and liquidity risk. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in these areas.

An understanding of Basel 2/3, BIPRU, credit risk modelling. (Internal Models, Stress Testing, CVA (Credit Valuation adjustment) Stress Testing, back testing) would be useful.

You must have excellent communication, including report writing, and team working skills, and be able to build successful working relationships across the Global risk function.

We are looking to recruit a Well Testing Manager for a company who are based in the US and are worldwide leaders in providing professional engineering and field supervision to the petroleum industry.

They have secured a number of contracts with one of Russia’s largest oil producers, who are amongst the ten largest private oil companies in the world.

Reporting to the Geology and Geophysics Manager, the Well Testing Manager will be based in Moscow. This post will involve travel to various regions within Russia, for 3-6 months on a full time basis, with the chance that the contract will be extended.

Key responsibilities include:

Preparing detailed operational programs aimed at improving the design and processes of the client’s well testing programs through investigation and integration of best practice and new technologies to ensure optimal efficiency.

Developing a cost optimisation map across the regions, including the selection of cost efficient subsurface and surface equipment

Creation of a well testing quality control system, including verification of well testing data interpretation and the compilation of End of Well and Lessons learnt reports.

Calculating process parameters and further developing surface data acquisition, sampling procedures, roles and obligations in accordance with testing goals and safe operation requirements.

Required experience:

15 years+ experience in wells testing and reservoir management

Knowledge of the software required to perform the work eg. well testing simulation software and hydrodynamic simulation software

Proficiency in sampling from cased wells, open holes and surface and in PVT studies, including transportation and storage of samples.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with some of the leading people in Oil & Gas. This contractor role offers a very competitive remuneration for the right person.