Senior Audit Manager – Economic Crime Platform & Engineering

End Date

Thursday 06 March 2025

Salary Range

£0 - £0

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Audit Portfolio Lead – Economic Crime Platform & Engineering

SALARY: £90,440 - £144,694 (dependant on location)

LOCATION(S): London, Edinburgh, Bristol

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least

two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

Do you want to play a leading role in influencing how the Group delivers its Economic Crime, technology and business transformation we implement our multi-year strategy?

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Group COO audit team as a Portfolio Lead within Group Audit & Conduct Investigations (GA&CI). As a Portfolio Lead, you’ll lead and shape in the Audit plan, using deep knowledge of technology and change risks to deliver high-quality, timely, and independent assurance on risk management and internal controls.

Day to day, you will:

• Be responsible for the end-to-end audit execution and related action follow-ups through effective planning and relationship management across portfolio of audits. Delivering risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued.

• Prioritise your work and that of others effectively with adaptability to ensure timely and valuable delivery. Understand the critical path for delivery, removing obstacles; planning and preparing to ensure resources are used efficiently and effectively. A drive for personal development and growth, and accountability for your work and behaviours.

• Provide timely, actionable feedback, empower colleagues and contribute to their development through collaboration, career coaching and mentoring to maintain a positive and high-performing team.

• Lead and own delivery, and champion colleagues' growth and development. Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.

• Understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the macro level.

• Independently undertake business monitoring through regular conversations with senior leaders and representing Group Audit at Committees, to influence decisions.

• Manage relationships with colleagues including senior executives and work collaboratively with colleagues across the function, First and Second Lines of Defence.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need:

• Experience of auditing private and public cloud platforms, software development lifecycle, modern engineering practices and tools. Good understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and application in Economic Crime.

• Proven track record of leading Economic Crime audits with expertise in auditing key products, front-to-back processes, channels and IT systems.

• Experience of identifying key risks associated with the use of technology in business processes, applying IT controls knowledge to audit automated business controls, and influence implementation of controls by design during transformation initiatives. Highly skilled in writing and agreeing high quality findings and audit reports.

• Critical thinking ability to use internal, external, business and, technology information to provide forward-looking and impactful insights on current and emerging risks and opportunities.

• Ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and use data to drive effective audit outcomes.

• Demonstrating strong communication to effectively manage and influence senior relationships independently whilst building credibility and trust.

• Strong project management skills to multitask and succeed in a fast-paced environment.

• Extensive experience of working in Financial Services, Internal/External Audit or a Risk Function with a good knowledge of financial products in Banking and Insurance.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Knowledge of Economic Crime regulations

• Payments audits experience in products, front-to-back processes, and technology

• Knowledge of Payments regulations

• International Compliance Association (ICA) qualifications or equivalent

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.