Investment Director – Head of Investments – Edinburgh

Our client is a leading UK based private client investment and financial planning firm. As a major industry award winner, they offer an exciting and dynamic working environment, backed up by a solid business dating back over a hundred years with an impressive client base. After a recent period of significant change, they are looking to increase their presence in Scotland, and enlarge the size of the existing Private Client Investment Team. They are consequently seeking an Investment Director to join this expanding team in their Edinburgh Office.

You will originate from an investment background, with experience of dealing directly with High Net Worth individuals, assessing their attitude to risk, whilst working closely with them to address their investment needs. Knowledge and experience of the successful construction and management of tailored investment portfolios from both a discretionary and advisory stance is key, as is direct equity investment experience.

As Head of Investments, you will have the necessary excellent interpersonal and people management skills to enable you to successfully manage the existing team of talented investment managers. The emphasis of this role is on the individual having the key skills, gravitas and ambition to develop and drive the business forward. Ideally, you will bring a significant client base with you but in the absence of this, you will be expected to build an agreed value of assets under management within a five year period.

Remuneration for this post Investment Director role will compare well with market competitors, and will be based on the individual candidate. There is potential for an equity share scheme being awarded in the case of exceptional individuals.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Auditor with working knowledge of Capital Markets / Trading within the UK market looking for a new challenge within the highly reputable Investment Bank where you can truly progress and the value you add is recognisable.
Our client is seeking a bright, analytical and ambitious individual with an inquisitive mind as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join their ever growing Global Markets division.

You will work across all business areas within trading and get exposure to all asset class. They also encourage 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 relationship

A role with a large global bank with a strong European presence. This is an Internal Audit position covering Investment Management and Asset Management.

Our client, a large global bank with a strong European presence, is seeking an experienced Auditor to join the Investment Management and Asset management function of their internal audit team.

A strong background in financial services is essential, with three to five years experience in Investment Management. The successful candidate will have a broad range of experience, covering areas from Real Estate Fund Management and Fund Administration to UCITS, and other regulatory requirements.

With excellent communication and writing skills and experience conducting audits, the successful candidate will be able to establish and maintain positive working relationships with all stakeholders from team members to senior management.

Essential

• Degree educated, preferably with a relevant business subject such as economics or accountancy. Three years PQE experience within Investment Management Internal Audit
• Accountancy or audit qualification

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.