Job Description

We are looking for an ACA qualified auditor to join our Internal Audit department.

This role is suited to individuals who have the ACA qualification (or a similar qualification). You must have experience of performing external audits or internal audits in the Financial Services sector. You must also have experience in data analysis – for example using advanced excel, VBA or SQL.

You will be responsible for individually completing internal audits of selected areas of the business and reporting these to senior management. You will be assessing business operational processes and risks, analysing data, assessing regulatory requirements, and making recommendations and driving through improvements. Our internal auditors work closely with other business departments including Actuarial & Risk, Compliance, Finance, IT, Data, and Operations.

Within this role you will specifically work with other members of the department to enhance our data analysis capabilities for ongoing auditing and individual audit engagements. This will involve the use of data analysis tools including SQL. There will be data analysis training in the role, however you must have a willingness to want to enhance or learn these data analysis skills.

Duties include:

• Individually performing internal audits as assigned in the Group Annual Internal Audit Plan. The audits will be varied and will encompass reviews of business operational processes, regulatory compliance, capital adequacy, governance, risk and IT.
• Setting up and performing data analysis of the Group’s key operational processes.
• Internal audit planning, scoping, fieldwork and reporting.
• Completing internal audit work programmes in accordance with the Internal Audit methodology.
• Attending meetings with Group senior management to validate audit findings, and in partnership with the business developing pragmatic and commercial audit recommendations that will mitigate the identified risks.
• Communicating the findings from internal audits confidently and articulately to senior staff within the business.
• Writing internal audit reports that will be provided to the Group Audit Committee, the Board of Directors of subsidiary entities, and Group senior management.
• Researching regulatory and legislative requirements applicable to the Group.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities