Internal Auditor / Wholesale Banking recruitment

Our client, an international wholesale bank is looking for an internal auditor to be responsible for the delivery of independent and objective assurance and advice to improve the bank’s operational and control management environment. The individual would help in identifying and mitigating risks across the business.

Duties Include:

• Responsible for assessing the control environment, IT systems and governance processes throughout the front and back offices.

• Establish, implement and maintain a risk-based audit plan to examine and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the bank’s systems, internal control mechanisms and policies and procedures.

• Make recommendations based on the results of work done and verify compliance with those recommendations.

• Provide reports to both the Audit Risk Committee and executive management on the policies, programmes and activities of the internal audit function

• Maintain Internal Audit’s independence of the other functions and activities of the bank

• Lead on specific control initiatives and firm wide process changes or for conducting special investigations

• Provide both management and the Audit Risk Committee with an opinion on the internal controls in the Bank

• Comply with all FSA requirements as they relate to the Internal Audit function

• Co-ordinate all aspects of the end to end process mapping including the organisation of the attestation meetings and maintaining the remediation log.

• Devising end to end process maps with departments and overseeing subsequent changes

The preferred candidate will ideally have either a wholesale banking or corporate banking background. They will also be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of auditing a wholesale or corporate bank to UK FSA standards. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to interact at all levels of business effectively is also required.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email your C.V. to inan@altussearch.co.uk or call Inan Rashid on 020 7430 1831 for a confidential discussion.

Altus Search Ltd is acting as an employment agency in relation to this role.