Senior IT Audit Manager (Financial Services)

Job summary
Permanent contract
London
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
Coaching and mentoring
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Grant Thornton UK
Grant Thornton UK

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Job description

  • Oversee end-to-end IT audit engagements across a portfolio of banking, insurance, asset management, fintech and payments clients
  • Report directly to directors and partners, keeping them informed of progress, risks and issues
  • Plan, perform and review testing of IT general controls (ITGCs), application controls and information produced by the entity, and ensure the IT audit plan responds to risks of material misstatement
  • Provide assurance supporting financial statement audits and the IT element of regulatory frameworks, including service organisation reporting (SOC 1/ISAE 3402), client assets (CASS) and safeguarding work monitored by the FCA
  • Review and sign off deliverables, and escalate complex issues such as ineffective controls or major IT migrations early, with a recommended response
  • Build new business relationships with finance, technology and information security leaders, heads of internal audit and audit committees
  • Contribute to proposals, tenders and client conversations, and identify opportunities for wider technology, risk and advisory teams
  • Manage engagement financials, including scoping, budgeting, resourcing, fee recovery and the impact of scope changes
  • Lead and coach multi-location and offshore teams, set high standards, give honest feedback and support wellbeing and progression
  • Be accountable for quality, including in regulatory inspections by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), where relevant

Benefits

  • Income protection
  • Matched pension
  • Life cover
  • Private medical, including anytime access to Doctor@Hand and Stronger Minds
  • Professional subscriptions

Preferred experience

  • Experience overseeing IT audit engagements end to end and supervising teams across a portfolio
  • A good understanding of the UK regulatory environment, including the FCA and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)
  • Experience reporting to and working directly with directors or partners
  • Significant IT audit experience in financial services, ideally from a Big 4 or mid-tier firm, or from internal audit or technology risk in a regulated firm
  • A professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CA or an international equivalent), or a recognised IT audit or security qualification (CISA, CISM or CRISC), with relevant experience
  • Strong knowledge of IT general controls (ITGCs), application controls and ISA (UK) 315, and of linking IT risk to the financial statement audit
  • A track record of high audit quality, demonstrated by strong inspection or internal quality review results
  • Experience in fintech, payments, crypto or digital assets
  • Experience with audit analytics and automated testing
  • SOC 1/ISAE 3402 reporting experience
  • CASS and safeguarding assurance experience

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