Our client, a global investment bank, seeks a Senior Audit Manager to take charge of the Fixed Income Audit team. Reporting directly to the Regional Chief Auditor and Audit Committee you will have full responsibility to manage the team and the audit process.

You will act as the key contact point for the business and take responsibility for the IA planning process and value-added reporting to enhance the control culture within the group. The Head of Audit accordingly manages the day to day relationship between IA and business leaders in the respective FI teams.

You must have experience of managing, leading and developing audit teams as well as very strong knowledge of Fixed Income/Debt products and trade flows. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships is a key in this senior role.

This is an outstanding opportunity to gain extensive exposure in a senior ‘head of function’ role.

Our client is seeking a strong Regulatory professional for a senior manager role in the Audit Group.

You will be experienced in FSA Handbook rules, COB, MCOB, ICOB and have direct experience from a compliance function within a bank or have audited the compliance function within a bank. You will have the opportunity to develop knowledge of Compliance risk as well as provide expertise to other internal audit areas whenever there is a requirement. As a Regulatory Auditor your main responsibilities will involve:

• Leading audits to assess the management and control of regulatory risk;
• Ensuring that all audits meet audit plan time-scales and comply with quality requirements;
• Managing relationships with key stakeholders across the business,
• Caching, motivating and developing other team members.

You will have regular dialogue with the Senior Managers in London to discuss improvements to the audit of regulatory risk exposure.

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.

circa £95000 + Bonus + Banking Benefits

This global investment bank seeks a senior IT Auditor with strong relationship management skills to manage IT infrastructure portfolio. As you will be responsible for reviewing all major technologies you should possess significant experience of leading IT Audits of large systems environments within a major corporate and possess detailed knowledge of networks, firewalls, datacentres as well as UNIX and Windows platforms.

INVESTMENT BANKING EXPERIENCE IS USEFUL BUT NOT REQUIRED.

Up to £70000 + excellent Bonus and Benefits Package

This major banking group is looking for a strong Auditor with detailed knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP to working closely with the Treasury function. This multidisciplined team comprised of finance and risk professionals carry out reviews to assess and report on the capital positions and liquidity across each of the bank’s UK businesses. You will have a strong background UK and international accounting standards probably gained within a Big 4 or large international accountancy practice where you will have worked on large financial services clients.

This is a unique opportunity to gain strong business exposure and make a real strategic difference to this globally recognised institution.

£60-70000 + Significant Bonus and Banking Benefits Package

This major banking group seeks a strong IT Auditor to conduct reviews across all of the banks technology infrastructure where you will gain exposure to both newly implemented cutting edge and legacy technologies. 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
• Voice and messaging including VOIP

SPECIFIC BANKING EXPERIENCE IS NOT REQUIRED although you should have worked within a large global organisation. This is an outstanding opportunity to develop your career within a major banking group where you will be well rewarded.

Up to £70000 + excellent Bonus and Benefits Package

Our client, a large UK banking group require a senior Auditor to lead reviews within the Corporate Banking and certain financial markets businesses as well as some branch reviews in Europe (although there will be limited travel). You should possess experience of conducting reviews banking activities ideally gained in commercial lending, M&A and Corporate Finance businesses as well as have a general knowledge of traded products.

This is a great opportunity to work within a friendly team with good work/life balance of a large household name with an interesting business mix.

£50-60000 + Bonus + Banking Benefits

This major European Banking is currently establishing an IT Audit function in London and requires an additional IT Auditor with strong technology infrastructure experience where you will assist in rolling out a new IT Audit methodology and gain exposure to both trading application reviews as well as utilise your infrastructure experience. You should possess indepth knowledge of at least one major technology platform – UNIX or Windows operating systems, networks, firewalls or datacentres/databases gained IDEALLY within a banking environment.

This is a rare opportunity to gain experience of technology within a complex trading business and be involved in establishing a new IT Audit function from a Greenfield site.