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 leading global bank is seeking a qualified Auditor to join their Internal Audit team.  With experience gained in a similar financial services organisation or a global bank, you will have working knowledge of operations supporting a global bank.

Essential:

• Degree educated
• Professional Audit or Accountancy qualification
• Experience in assisting in the planning and executing audits in financial services or a large bank
• Good understanding of the Risk, Regulatory Finance and HR considerations for a large bank or financial services organisation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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 a leading financial services firm with a global presence is seeking an experienced senior auditor to join a small internal audit team with responsibility for compliance across the organisation’s central functions.  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, a leading European Bank, is seeking a Senior Auditor with extensive Wholesale banking audit experience to join their internal audit team.  The ideal candidate will have experience leading and conducting large audits of all aspects of market risk as well as structural risks.  The successful candidate will be degree educated (or equivalent work experience) and hold a recognised in addition to a strong understanding of UK regulatory frameworks e.g., ICAPP, ILAA, Liquidity.  Using this experience and knowledge in conjunction with excellent communication skills, you will develop and maintain strong positive working relationships with team members, clients, senior management and stakeholders.

Responsibilities will include:

• Experience conducting concurrent audits would be an advantage

• Markets audit experience including equity, FX and fixed income

• Experience leading and managing teams

• Supporting Heads of Audit in developing strategy and delivery of Audit Plan for UK

• Providing expertise to clients, senior management and junior team members, particularly for traded market risk

• Managing the wholesale banking Audit team.

Our client is seeking an Internal Auditor to join their Internal Audit Team.  The ideal candidate will be degree educated with a relevant professional qualification.  Ideally with a good understanding of the fundamental aspects of middle and back office banking operations, candidates with general financial services audit experience will also be considered.   The ideal candidate profile will be:

• A Big 4 firm, with controls or assurance experience from large banking, asset management, insurance or  investment clients.
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• An Internal Auditor within a large private banking, investment banking, asset management, insurance  or investments company.
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• An Operations role in an associated discipline eg Compliance, Finance, Accounting, Controls within a banking, settlements, Investment house or Asset Management company

You must have excellent communication and team working skills.

The successful candidate will join an organisation with a strong global reputation and very strong future career opportunities.

This role is to support the Internal Audit management team to provide, valued assurance to stakeholders to mitigate key risks.

You must have:

• Mandarin language skills (fluent)
• 1-2 years Banking experience
• 1-2 years Audit experience (either external or internal)
• IIA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Audit management team in conducting risk assessments and developing the audit plan.
• Take part in the ongoing assessment of the Bank’s control environment.
• Develop areas of specialism such as credit risk or trade related business and produce and manage a programme of ongoing audit work to provide audit assurance.
• On an ad hoc basis execute form and execute audit programmes in accordance with procedures, communicating audit issues and findings to the auditee and developing agreed actions to address the control weaknesses identified.
• Perform periodic follow up on audit report responses

Salary up to £70K plus benefits scheme and bonus.

Our client is seeking a strong market risk professional for a senior manager role in the Global Risk Management Audit Group.

The Senior Manger will be a market risk practitioner with experience across all areas of market risk. The successful individual would have the opportunity to develop knowledge of operational and credit risk as well as provide risk expertise to other internal audit areas whenever there is a requirement. Risk Management reviews cover all aspects of the firm’s market, credit and operational risk processes, including:

• risk policies and procedures adequacy and adherence,
• internal model accuracy,
• quality of market and risk data,
• monitoring of risk exposures regulatory calculations.

The successful candidate will have regular dialogue with the Senior Risk Managers in London and other parts of the world to discuss market trends and the level of risk exposure.

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Salary up to £80K plus significant flexible benefits scheme, bonus and other associated benefits.

Our client is a Tier 1 Global Banking Group who seeks an experienced professional to join their Internal Audit team within the Financial Markets Division. As an Audit Manager, your primary responsibility is to deliver individual audits as Team Leader as well as promoting proactive and professional relationships with the business, providing robust and challenging insight on business risk and control processes.

Specific Responsibilities:
• To identify and negotiate the required audit team for the scope of the given project, and to manage, coach and mentor staff as required.
• To carry out necessary audit preparation, by means of liaison with the business over timescales, context, and scope of the audit being carried out, ensuring all necessary controls are in place.
• To lead the team in carrying out necessary fieldwork, and coordinate, review, and document the work of the team.
• To ensure accurate reporting is carried out in the prescribed manner by the team, and to manage and feedback the findings of the audit to Senior Management in a timely fashion.

Candidate Requirements:
• Audit experience, or relevant knowledge of Capital Market activities and other primary investment banking activities as well as associated risk and support functions
• A high level knowledge of banking / financial services business processes
• Experience of developing relationships with the business
• Finance, banking, accounting, audit or risk management qualification desirable

Up to £70000 + bonus + Banking Benefits

Our client is a mid tier banking group who provide a wide range of capital market, banking and global transaction services products to corporate and institutional clients globally. The Audit Director is currently looking for an Audit Manager to join their London based team.

This is a small, local team that utilises an integrated audit approach where the successful individual will work with specialists from Credit, IT and Market Risk and take responsibility for actively managing individual audits on a day-to-day basis, whilst developing the appropriate risk and control matrixes and resulting audit programs.

This is a very “hands on” role which will include auditing the front office business activities as well as the related middle office and back office operations both locally in the UK and occasionally in South East Asia.

You should be a qualified accountant ideally from the Financial Services Division of a Big 4 accountancy firm or from the Internal audit function of a bank and possess a good understanding of traded financial products.