Job information:
- Functional title - Vice President, Transformation and Change Audit
- Department - Internal Audit
- Corporate level - Vice President
- Report to - Natalie Danilkina, Head of Transformation and Change Audit (US)
- Location - New Jersey
- Salary - $175,000 -- $200,000 variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.
What you will be doing:
Audit Management and Execution: (80%) - Execution of planning and testing for complex audits and high-level reviews, including designing test strategies, audit test papers and drafting of audit findings & executive summary.
- Review and mentoring of more junior IA members' work on relevant methodology and tools to meet audit objectives.
- Lead on validation and tracking (with oversight) to confirm management's remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
- Actively contributing to the ongoing improvement of audit practices and methodology.
Stakeholder Management / Strategic:
(15%)- Develop and maintain working relationships with peers across the organization.
- Where required, lead/contribute to the use of data analytics by Transformation and Change Audit.
- To monitor strategic developments within CLS to highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues.
- Perform continuous monitoring of the project portfolio, under the direction of senior audit management, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management and the Audit & Finance Committee.
- Identify areas for improvement within Internal Audit and play a leading role on department improvement initiatives.
- Support and provide input into the Internal Audit risk assessment process to inform the Audit Plan.
Professional Development (5%)- Proactively maintain knowledge, skills, and disciplines, with on-going professional development.
- Identify and share useful learning opportunities for other Internal Audit team members.
- 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:
- Extensive experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and strong project/program/portfolio audit experience across a range of projects in a financial institution.
- Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated audits.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Experience of dealing with all levels of management; ability to influence at all levels.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g. FRBNY.
- Confident in managing and leading a portfolio of project audits.
- Proven success in building, developing, and management teams.
- Strong team player but also be able to work independently.
- Proactive, initiative-taking - ability to plan, organize, perform, and manage work with minimal supervision.
- Results oriented - able to deliver high-quality results in an environment of changing demands, variable workloads, and tight timescales.
- Able to think on a broad scale about issues affecting the company, not just those related to IA or the control environment.
- Able to interpret internal and external issues and recommend solutions/best practices.
Professional qualifications / certifications/experience
- Bachelor's or master's degree (required) in a technology-related field (preferred).
- Project Management Qualifications - PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Prince 2, MSP, PMI or similar
- Internal Audit Certifications - CISA (preferred), CIA, CISM
- Experience of managing a portfolio of Internal Audit Change audit assignments.
- Experience of managing and developing team members (preferred)
- Practitioner experience within the first line of defense in technology (including expertise in SDLC) and change management (preferred).
- Experience in working for Big Four focused on Change Management audits (preferred)
- Experience in working with data analytics tools
