This is a fantastic role offer from a Global Investment Bank. They are offering an AVP role within their internal audit team to a candidate with either a product control type background or risk based audit background.
If you seek a Bank where you can:

– Broaden your asset class exposure across a full spectrum of Fixed Income, Currencies and FICC derivative products (they also have a sizeable Equities function – Contact me for more information).

• Enjoy an open and collaborative leadership style from a Senior Management team with a spread of backgrounds from tier one institutions, that bring their collective knowledge to influence all aspects of team management, methodology and strategy.
• Rely on a strong history of high bonus awards and competitive pay package.
• Work as part of a team and have your personal achievements recognised.
• Have a chance to work with the banks Global heads along with other members of the senior management team helping more junior members understand the given work.

If any of the above interests you, or you would like further information on the role
please call – 020 3397 1779

Salary: £55,000 – £75,000 (+bonus)
Location: London
Level: AVP

Our client, a top tier financial institution based in Toronto Canada are looking for the best in class Scala developers, Functional programmers, Machine Learning Experts and Data Scientists.  You will join a newly formed product group that is currently developing the next generation etrading (electronic trading) pricing and risk technology platforms using the latest functional programming techniques to deliver highly concurrent real-time solutions.

My client is currently building highly scalable, efficient, cost effective, distributed applications on commodity hardware using a mixture of open source and proprietary technologies. This is a pilot project that is blazing a trail towards a more wide ranging initiative and will involve deep collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, quantitative analysts, business analysts, Dev-Ops engineers and enterprise/solution architects.

We are looking for self-motivated, driven technologists, programmers, machine learning experts and data scientists who want to solve complex problems arising from building distributed and highly concurrent systems. Your primary responsibility will be delivering solutions to the Fixed Income and Derivatives business for this global financial powerhouse institution.

You will be working closely with other members of the global team who include specialists in functional programming, data science, software engineering, machine learning and data analysis and with the front office trading desks to define product features, determine scope, build estimates, design and develop systems. You should have a strong software engineering background with hands-on design and development experience in building highly distributed, scalable and concurrent applications.

Qualifications required:

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science or related degree from an accredited university or BSc with significant relevant industry experience
• Functional programming skills, strong computer science foundation; technology stack include UI : (Drools (KIE), jBPM); RT Processing: (Scala, Apache Spark, distributed NoSQL database using JSON); Near time: (sharding), Big Data – Hadoop; RESTful API
• Excellent mathematical skills
• Experience of building large scale applications, machine learning and big data
• Knowledge of building automated testing and performance testing is a plus

Industry: Financial Services

Working for a Tier One Global Investment Bank to design, implement, test and deploy trading systems for the market making and execution only trading desks.

As part of the development team supporting the Global cash and derivatives rates and credit businesses, you will develop pricing, quoting and algorithmic trading systems that can enhance connectivity to new markets and improve quantitative low latency performance.

Key aspects of the role are:

• Manage relationships with senior Trading/Sales and software vendors
• Tune Linux, reconfigure network routing/firewall setup, adopt new market protocols, and quantitative analysis of latency data
• Configure new ION Trading components and middleware
• Develop Java, KDB/Q, and scripting languages (Shell, Perl, Python)

You must have:

• Experience of development and tuning of high performance real-time electronic trading applications, whether buy- or sell-side, or at an exchange
• Quantitative performance monitoring and testing, including population statistics
• Bonds and swaps pricing and risk management
• TCP/IP networking, including technical certifications such as CCNA, highly desirable
• ION Marketview API and platform configuration experience highly desirable.

Location: New York / New Jersey

Our client is a leading global bank. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Auditor with working knowledge of Capital Markets in the UK market looking for a new challenge to join the highly reputable Investment Bank where you can truly progress and the value you add is recognisable.

The successful candidate will have an audit background in a similar banking or financial services environment within a Capital Markets Function.  Experience in the risks and controls governing front office is essential, and exposure to Equities, and rates / fixed income products would be particularly useful.

You will work across all business areas within trading and get exposure to all asset class.  Our client has a great career progression ethos, and encourages internal mobility, as well as the opportunity to become a specialist as well as progress upwards with a dedicated career development programme which is tailored to the individual.
Essential requirements for Internal Audit Capital Markets job:

• ACA/ ACCA/ CIA or any other relevant Audit/ Accounting qualification
• Internal Audit experience from practice or a bank in the UK
• OR External audit experience with firm grasp of risk and control
• Sound knowledge of Capital Markets/ Trading products
• Understanding of risk and control on business process within an investment bank
• Strong analytical and technical nous
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to build stakeholder

Our client, a leading global bank is seeking a VP Capital Markets Auditor to join their dedicated internal audit team, covering fixed income, currencies and commodities. The Internal Audit function consists of teams who provide independent assurance over the business and operations for all stakeholders, ultimately providing assurance to the Board and Group Executive Management.

The successful candidate will have an audit 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. Commodities audit experience would be particularly useful.

Essential

• An accountancy or audit qualification
• Ability to manage and lead audits within an Investment Banking environment
• Excellent interpersonal and managerial skills
• Capital Markets front office knowledge (ideally commodities)

An Investment Bank with a strong European presence is seeking a VP Capital Markets Auditor to join their Internal Audit team.  Candidates will have experience auditing front to back office functions of an investment bank, in addition to strong understanding of the risks and controls governing these. The successful candidate will have a background in a similar banking or financial services environment within a Capital Markets function. You will have routinely conducted audits of financial instruments such as equities, debt/fixed income products, FX , hedging or short term borrowing, and similar.

Using 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.

Essential Skills

Degree educated or related experience within a European or US regulated region.

You will have routinely conducted audits of financial instruments, such as equities, debt/fixed income products, FX , hedging and/or short term borrowing.

A professional audit qualification

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 leading tier 1 bank is seeking a Senior Manager to lead their Equities Audit team.  Based in Canary Wharf, the successful candidate will have a background in traded products audit, ideally equities, and  have responsibility for:  Equities Investment Banking and Finance, Traded Equity Products and Equity Research Audit.

The broad scope of the role provides a unique opportunity to further develop your understanding of all facets of Equities Audit.  As Senior Manager, you will  be responsible for drafting and scoping the audit plan, conducting reviews and managing a small team.

Essential:

Eight to twelve years’ experience in traded products audit (equities, or fixed income/rates) .

Degree educated or equivalent.

Demonstrable experience in auditing traded products at a senior level, ideally equities but other traded product specialists will also be of interest.

Excellent communication skills.

Strong relationship management.

Desirable:

Experience managing teams.

Accountancy qualification.

Experience in a big 4 environment.

Experience conducting Capital Markets Audit.

This post is based in the Global Banking and Markets (GBM) division, for a major Tier 1 Institution, which delivers award winning finance, risk management and investment solutions to corporations, financial institutions and governments worldwide. You will be working as a Manager in a pooled team of auditors, providing the assurances and controls which the business needs to deliver a Portfolio of Award winning products to the market.

The audit team delivers product-based front-to-back audits, mirroring the Markets, Coverage and Origination and Global Portfolio businesses as well as functional audits of key support areas such as Finance, Risk and Operations. As part of a team of over 100 based across Europe, the UK and Asia, you will have the opportunity for some travel, as well as the potential for career development both within the Group Internal Audit function, and the wider business. Within GBM, opportunities are available for candidates with audit experience and/or relevant knowledge of Markets, Banking or Risk Operations, and Finance within an Investment Bank.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in audits within an assigned business unit, in line with Group Internal Audit standards and procedures
• Deliver individual audits as the team leader
• Foster proactive and professional relationships with the business, providing robust and challenging insight on business risk and control processes
• Lead and manage audit teams from a pooled team of auditors
• Initiate and carry out fieldwork as required

Candidate Requirements

• Audit experience or relevant knowledge of Markets, Banking or Risk, Operations and Finance within a complex Financial Services business
• Experience of managing relationships in a business
• Related business specific product and technical knowledge
• High level knowledge of banking and financial services business processes
• Finance, banking, accounting, audit or risk management qualification
• Experience of leading team projects desirable

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A European Bank has an opportunity for a candidate with a big 4 background or in a similar controls role to lead permanent Operational risks within the Fixed Income department in the front office, sitting on the trading floor, with a focus on Credit products.

This is an excellent position for someone looking to secure their first move to industry or moving from an audit, risk, controls role into a front office environment.

– Banking experience and a basic understanding of front office product flows are essential.
– Good communication and relationship building skills are essential as the role requires daily liaison with senior front office staff.