Playing a key role in the internal audit Equities team, you will have experience within a similar environment in a large bank or financial services organisation.  Using a strong understanding of risk and controls associated Capital markets including rates (particularly equities), cash and derivatives, the successful candidate will participate in planning and executing audits.  A team player with excellent communication skills you will help to leverage the internal audit business across the organisation in addition to maintaining positive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.

Skills:

• Degree educated or equivalent experience

• A professional accountancy or audit qualification would be an advantage

• Strong understanding of the risks and controls governing capital markets, rates and equities

• Willingness to travel

• Experience of auditing emerging markets is a plus.

Our client, a leading global bank is seeking an Internal Auditor to join their dedicated audit team.  As part of the team responsible for auditing commodities, the successful candidate will have a background in a similar banking or financial services environment within a Capital Markets function.  Using excellent communication skills to manage relationships with clients and senior management, you will have expert knowledge of the risks and controls governing the front office preference will be given to those with hard or soft commodity experience.

Essential

• An accountancy or audit qualification
• Prior Operational Controls or Audit experience in a financial services organisation or bank
• Capital Markets front office knowledge (ideally commodities)

The successful candidate will join a tier 1 organisation with a clear structure and strong global presence.  As part of a dedicated Audit function, you will lead the Operations and Change Management team and will have experience within a large bank in either IT or Business Audit. With a proven track record of leading teams, allocating resources and managing budgets, you will maintain high standards of reporting across the function. Through fostering an open team environment you will encourage the sharing of knowledge and expertise between all team members.

Essential

• Considerable experience in a leadership role, maintaining and developing excellent working relationships with team members, stakeholders and senior management.
• Charismatic leadership skills with desire and personality to inspire other team members.
• An expert knowledge of Operations & Change Management audit including documentation standards, risk modelling, change controls, quality frameworks and compliance.

Desirable

• Degree educated with an appropriate audit or accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, IIA, CISA).
• Good working knowledge of current business operating models and systems.
• Prior experience managing a global team and resources or considerable experience in project management.

A leading investment bank is seeking an experienced senior auditor to manage a comprehensive review of front to back office business from planning through to making the final report.  Using excellent communication skills to manage relationships across the business you will report to the Head of Internal Audit and have the opportunity to be involved with the Audit committee.

This is an excellent role for an internal auditor with c5 years experience of capital markets products looking for more autonomy and involvement in the business.

Essential:

• An audit qualification

• Experience auditing various functions of an investment bank

• Strong understanding of risks and controls impacting on investment banking

• J-Sox would be an advantage

A tier one bank with a strong global presence is seeking a Director to lead their IT Audit (Infrastructure) team.  Using demonstrable leadership experience to develop a team with a shared knowledge culture, you will maintain high standards of reporting integrity across the team and maintain positive relationships with management and stakeholders.  The successful candidate will have a background in a similar banking environment in either IT or Business audit.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in a leadership role, maintaining and developing excellent working relationships with team members, stakeholders and senior management.
• Charismatic leadership skills with desire and personality to inspire other team members.
• Expert understanding of risks, controls and testing methods for commonly used platforms such as Unix, Windows, Data networks for mobile and voice, Mainframe, Midrange amongst others.

Desirable

• Degree educated with an appropriate audit or accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, IIA, CISA).
• Experience operating one of the above mentioned platforms.
• Good working knowledge of current business operating models and systems.
• Prior experience managing a global team and resources.
• Understanding of controls and governance relating to Information Security and IT Risk Management.

Our client, a leading UK bank is seeking an experienced Senior Treasury Officer to lead the treasury and group finance audit team.  You will use expert knowledge of the risks and controls governing liquidity and capital to meet regulatory reporting requirements such as ICAAP, ILAA and RRP.

The ideal candidate must have experience in the one of the following areas:

• A Senior Audit Manager with recent experience auditing  the treasury function in a large bank;

• Senior Manager in a big four/Financial Services company with consulting experience in Treasury;

• Treasury Manager or Senior practitioner (Controls aware, Audit experience not required).

You will use excellent communication skills to lead and develop the treasury audit team and manage relationships with senior managers and stakeholders.

Our client is seeking an experienced VP or Director to lead their financial and regulatory reporting audit team.  You will use extensive knowledge of Financial Regulatory Reporting, both for an international and UK setting, to develop and implement the Internal Audit strategy.  Experience of leading a central finance function or a similar audit role is desirable.

A leading global investment firm seeks a Vice President, Credit Risk to join their specialist Risk Audit team.  You will have either worked as part of a credit risk management team or as an Auditor covering Credit Risk in an Investment Bank.  As part of a small team, the successful candidate will deputise for the Head of the Credit Risk Audit and assist them in leading and developing the team. As the principle lead for credit risk, you will work closely with all business audit teams, particularly the Quantitative audit team on assurance frameworks for traded products.  The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills fostering a shared knowledge culture across the team in addition to maintaining excellent working relationships with stakeholders and senior management.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Experience in financial management within a traded product credit risk, credit analyst  or credit reviewer role.

• Thorough understanding of credit risk controls

• Excellent communication skills with demonstrable experience of stakeholder management

• Broad knowledge and understanding of global regulatory developments and frameworks.

• Expert understanding of Basel II requirements, thorough knowledge of Basel III proposals.

Desirable:

• Two years’ experience as a credit risk auditor.      

Our client, a leading global investment firm, seeks an experienced Auditor to join their internal audit team.  With a background in audit or accountancy gained in a Big 4 or investment firm, the successful candidate will be degree educated and hold a relevant professional qualification (eg., CPA, ACA).  Using their prior years of experience conducting audits, the ideal candidate will use excellent communication and networking skills to build successful working relationships with the internal audit team, clients, stakeholders and senior management.

Essential:

• Professional audit or accountancy qualification.
• Strong practical understanding of the audit process and regulatory developments, ideally for a global team
• Expert knowledge of mutual funds, brokerage or related banking or financial businesses and related internal controls
• Willingness to undertake travel for required training or short assignments

This is a senior role within the Internal Audit team covering Capital Regulatory Reporting within Global Markets. The successful candidate will take the lead in audits which are centred around Capital Regulatory Reporting covering areas including ICAAP, CRD4 and Standard Rules Capital Calculations.  Additionally, you will support the Audit function conducting non regulatory orientated audits, eg front to back reviews, and provide specialist input into a range of other audits including VaR waivers and other areas as necessary. The role also involves acting as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Regulatory Reporting within the Internal Audit Team. 

Requirements

Minimum 4 years PQE either auditing Regulatory Reporting functions within a major banking group, working as a Consultant covering clients requiring Regulatory guidance or experience of working within a Regulatory Reporting group at a major institution.

Knowledge of current BASIL regulations
Capital Requirements Directive (CRD4) knowledge
Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)

Whilst NOT essential it would be useful to have experience of conducting Internal Audits with the ability to lead a small team.