Senior Financial Services Internal Audit & Controls UK

As an Internal Audit Specialist, your role will involve conducting internal audits from planning to execution and reporting. Your key responsibilities will include: - Planning: You will be required to understand the client's business and assist in planning audits for multiple business units and locations. - Preparation: Defining and aligning audit programs across relevant processes with the client. - Execution: Leading process discussions with the client and conducting audit procedures according to defined standards. - Validation: Scheduling and validating audit observations with the client's process owner. - Reporting: Drafting audit reports in compliance with the specified standards. Additionally, you will lead and conduct internal controls uplift and transformation projects. Your responsibilities for this aspect of the role will include: - Risk Assessment: Identifying material entities, processes, and controls through quantitative and qualitative risk assessment procedures. - Gap Assessment: Conducting gap assessments on the overall process/controls landscape through workshops, process discovery sessions, and policy/procedure reviews. - Controls Design/Transformation: Designing and transforming controls in alignment with the gap assessment, system changes/upgrade, and management objectives. - Preparation/Update of Risk and Control Matrices, SOPs, and flow charts. - Test of Design and Operating Effectiveness: Leading control walkthroughs, performing control inquiries, and reviewing control documentation to assess controls design and operating effectiveness. - Reporting: Drafting an overall report summarizing control gaps, recommendations, and testing results. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of internal audit processes and controls within the organization.,