Senior Audit Manager - Markets

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JOB TITLE: Senior Audit Manager - Markets

SALARY: £90,440 - £131,540 (dependant on location)

LOCATION(S): London, Bristol & Edinburgh

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 hub locations.

As the Relationship Manager you’ll ensure reliable and high-quality delivery of an assigned area of the audit plan and providing assurance on risk management and internal controls on relevant issues across portfolios.

About this opportunity

You’ll oversee the end-to-end execution of audits and related action follow up through effective planning and stakeholder management, lead quality across the Commercial Banking Markets portfolio as necessary and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues delivering on your behalf.

You’ll also give to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI colleagues through teamwork, collaboration and effective management of resources into change initiatives. Provide career coaching and mentoring to direct report and colleagues in the pool to develop a positive and high-performing team culture.

Day to day, you will:

• Actively oversee the detailed scope and delivery of a significant number of audits in the Commercial Banking Markets audit plan and where necessary directly lead particularly complex audits within the portfolio.

• Ensure appropriate planning for Audits in your portfolio, including selecting and supporting Engagement Leads who will project manage individual audits on your behalf.

• Oversee progress, and lead the quality of audit delivery, make appropriate judgements as to when automated or data driven testing is most effective, and keep Audit and Business leadership informed regarding status, risks and other relevant insights.

• Collaborate with resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on portfolio.

• Manage relationship with, provide assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls to business stakeholders.

• Proactively suggests and delivers innovating thinking by bringing the outside in.

• Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive different ways to contribute and shape direction for the team.

• Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.

• Act as a career coach, performance manager, or pastoral (line) manager, if applicable, to a number of colleagues within the pool.

• Provide timely, direct and effective feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of direct reports and other team members.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• A deep end-to-end understanding of sales and trading businesses (across FX, Rates, and Credit), including key risks and controls across the front office, middle office, back office, risk and product control.

• A solid understanding of the regulatory landscape and key requirements.

• The ability to lead and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development.

• The ability to deliver risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued by stakeholders.

• The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the Macro level

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

• The ability to prioritize your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and valuable delivery

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• An understanding of Debt Capital Markets products, risks and controls

• A markets relevant professional qualification

• Trade, Electronic and Voice Surveillance Frameworks

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

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.