AVP Cyber IT Auditor

My client, a prominent Financial Services client based in London, are looking for a Cyber IT Auditor to join their growing team. This role is fully remote until August as my client is renovating their offices and will be 2 days per week thereafter.

The AVP will support the Director in providing risk-based integrated audit coverage and independent assessment of the effectiveness of key applications, projects, and related IT controls and risks across my client's IA's ways of working reflect the requirements of my client's designation as a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU). The requirements of the Audit Plan are diverse and challenging. The AVP will be primarily focused on leading audits, continuous monitoring, issue validation, and leading on departmental improvement initiatives. It is important that the AVP be versatile and flexible in working in a team on a larger/complex audit, or individually on less complex audits under the direction of the Director. Importantly, the AVP will be expected to have a good understanding of financial services business practices and will be able to contribute to integrated audits of my client's various business divisions.

What you will be doing:

• Develop and maintain working relationships with peers across the organization.
• To monitor strategic developments within my client to highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues.
• Perform continuous monitoring of the business through frequent stakeholder engagement, under the direction of the director, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management.
• 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.
• Execution of planning and testing for complex technology, information security 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.
• Management and tracking of businesses remediation activities.
• Actively contributing to the ongoing improvement of audit practices and methodology.
• 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:

• Experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and audit experience across a range of different information technology 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.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g., FRBNY, FCA.
• Strong IT security and technical knowledge with approximately 8 years of experience within the industry.
• Working experience with common security/technology risk frameworks, for instance, ISO 27000, NIST, CIS Critical Security Controls, COBIT, and IIA GTAGs.
• Working experience with regulatory standards / requirements (US, UK) i.e., GDPR, BCBS 239, FFIEC 101, 3402, CHAP.
• Working experience and/or knowledge of Security domains including Access management, Threat management, Incident response and recovery, Data protection, Vulnerability management, Monitoring and logging, Physical security, and Security risk management and governance.
• Working experience and/or knowledge of cloud, block chain, high volume transaction systems.
• Working experience and/or knowledge of application controls, input/output, configuration, application controls.
• Working experience and/or knowledge middleware, networks, operating systems, databases (Unix, Windows, AIX, DB2, Citrix).
• Working experience and/or knowledge of data analytics/ predictive analytics, data governance.
• Understand policy/directives, and ability to assess risks across all types of IT systems and operations.

Success Factors

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (verbal and written), including the ability to deliver challenging messages at all levels of management.
• Must be a strong team player but also be able to work independently.
• Proactive, self-motivated - ability to plan, organise, 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.
• Ability to engage stakeholders.
• Innovative problem-solving approach. 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

• Degree level education (desirable) - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study preferred
• Audit / Project Management Certifications (desirable) – CMIIA (UK), CIA (US), CISA, CGEIT, CISSP, CISM, CompTIA, SANS, ISC2, Prince2, Agile etc.

If the above role is of interest please apply to this role, email me your CV to Darius.Goodarzi@robertwalters.com or call me on 0207 509 8040 to find out more.

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