Senior Audit Manager - Professional Practices (12 Month FTC)

Senior Audit Manager - Professional Practices (12 Month FTC)

Senior Audit Manager – Professional Practices

Sainsbury’s Bank

Edinburgh, Widnes, Holborn, Milton Keynes & Home

We are happy for you to be based in any of the above locations but please note that occasional travel will be required to our Edinburgh or London office.

In a nutshell

Reporting directly to the Audit Director you will be responsible for contributing appropriately to the provision of an independent assessment of the SBAFS governance, risk management and control processes whilst supporting the Audit Director (AD) and Heads of Audit (HoAs) to achieve IA department objectives including development and implementation of the SBAFS IA function and frameworks.

What you’ll be doing

• Support and manage efficiently and effectively, all relevant aspects of the IA strategy and services, consistent with current CIIA professional standards.
• Co-ordinate the delivery of high quality (complete, accurate and timely) IA reporting for presentation to governance committees through appropriate planning, resource management and quality assurance.
• Manage IA KPI’s both operationally and for reporting purposes.
• Support the AD and HoAs to report the results of IA Risk activities to the Bank's Executive Committee and the Audit Committee, and to provide a Bank-wide view of specific areas of concern and any themes relating to risk and control.
• Conduct regular control testing for the department and business owned Policy Standards, including agreeing appropriate remediation of action plans and managing through to completion.
• Develop and proactively manage and maintain an annual schedule of events and activities for the Audit team, ensuring it is accurate with all activities resourced and completed on time, governance processes include department reporting and financial/budget activities.
• Manage the on-going Quality Assurance (QA) process, including performing QA reviews and co-ordination between the IA team and any external QA providers where required, including analysis and reporting on outcomes; and provide oversight that the function is compliant with methodology and external best practice/Codes.
• Identify and deliver individual aspects of improvement for inclusion in the CIP and maintain, co-ordinate and provide oversight of the overall Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP).
• Establish and build strong internal relationships to support ongoing development of reporting frameworks and governance processes.

What you need to know and show

• Good understanding of the environment in which the Bank operates (economic, banking industry, regulatory, and organisational).
• Extensive experience in risk-based auditing or risk and control activities in financial services.
• Demonstrated experience in managing business relationships.
• Experience of building, developing, and maintaining audit methodologies and frameworks.
• CMIIA; IIA: ACCA; CA or equivalent qualification is desirable.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, and relationship building skills.
• Advanced planning, organisational, analytical, evaluation and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation capabilities, combined with a focus on results.
• Strong focus on finding solutions that have the right outcomes.
• Ability to operate with minimal supervision using initiative to work efficiently and effectively.

Colleague Conduct Rules

The individual performing this role is expected to adhere to the conduct rules as specified by our regulators (PRA and FCA).

Our benefits

In addition to the all-important salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits…

• We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance
• Opportunity to buy extra holidays;
• Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat store discount card
• Cycle to work scheme!

A little about us & our culture

We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the forefront of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create an innovative approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury’s Group, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours within their working days, giving plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

If you’re interested in applying and are excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience – we’d still love to hear from you! We’d also be happy to discuss more flexible working options such as job shares and part time working.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

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