Assistant Vice President, Internal Audit - Business Audit

CLS-Group

$140K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant industry and auditing experience
  • Degree level education
  • Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA or CPA) desirable
  • Audit Certifications (CMIIA or CIA) desirable
  • Experience in Internal Audit within financial services (preferably banking)
  • Strong analytical skills and communication abilities
  • Experience managing relationships with all levels of management.

Responsibilities

  • Execute planning and testing for complex audits and high-level reviews
  • Confirm remediation of audit and regulatory issues by management
  • Track management's remediation activities
  • Contribute to improvements in audit practices and methodologies
  • Maintain relationships with organizational peers and monitor strategic developments
  • Proactively enhance knowledge and skills through professional development
  • Adapt audit focus under the guidance of senior management.

Benefits

  • 25 holiday days and 3 'life days' (UK/Asia employees); 23 holiday days (US employees)
  • 2 paid volunteer days for community support
  • Generous parental leave policies
  • Wellbeing and mental health support resources
  • Employee networks for inclusivity initiatives
  • Hybrid working options for work/life balance
  • Monthly 'Heads Down Days' for no meetings
  • Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia and 401K match for US employees
  • Private medical insurance and dental coverage
  • Social events for networking opportunities
  • Annual flu vaccinations and wellness benefits
  • Access to a comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses.
Full Job Description
Job information:
  • Functional title - Assistant Vice President, Internal Audit - Business Audit
  • Department - Internal Audit - Business Audit
  • Corporate level - Assistant Vice President
  • Report to - Andrew Wittick
  • Location - New Jersey
  • Base pay / salary (NJ): 140-160K base

What you will be doing:

Audit Delivery Management: (90%)
  • Execution of planning and testing for complex audits and high-level reviews, including designing test strategies, audit test papers and drafting of audit findings.
  • Validation to confirm management's remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
  • Tracking of management's remediation activities.
  • Actively contributing to the ongoing improvement of audit practices and methodology.

Stakeholder Management / Strategic: (5%)
  • Develop and maintain working relationships with peers across the organization.
  • To monitor strategic developments within CLS and highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues.

Professional Development (5%)
  • Proactively maintain knowledge, skills and disciplines, with on-going professional development.
  • Maintain the professional standard of the Internal Audit function and work within its agreed Terms of Reference and IIA standards/guidelines, Charter and Mandate.
  • Demonstrate adaptability to ensure that the audit focus is maintained on key issues, under the guidance of audit senior management.

What we're looking for:
  • Experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and / or financial and operational audit experience across a range of business audits in a financial institution.
  • Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated operational audits.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Experience of dealing with all levels of management.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g., FRBNY.

Professional qualifications / certifications
  • Must have 5+ years of relevant industry and auditing experience
  • Degree level education
  • Qualified Accountant (desirable) - ACA / ACCA (UK), CPA (US)
  • Audit Certifications (desirable) - CMIIA (UK), CIA (US)


Our commitment to employees:

At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
  • Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 'life days' (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
  • 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
  • Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
  • Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
  • Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
  • Employee Networks (including our Women's Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
  • Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don't.
  • Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
  • Monthly 'Heads Down Days' with no meetings across the whole company.
  • Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
  • Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
  • Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
  • Annual flu vaccinations.
  • Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
  • Discounted Gym membership - Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
  • All employees have access to Discover - our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
  • Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.

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