Location: London/ Hybrid
Salary: £65,000 per annum
About the role
The purpose of this role is to provide quality IT internal audit work to the companies in the UK & Europe. The role will report to the European IT Supervising Internal Audit Senior based in London and there will be a close link to the IT Internal Audit team based in Houston.
Key Performance Deliverables:
- To plan, manage and execute end-to-end IT internal audits, engaging and managing key internal stakeholders across our UK and EU businesses, and to review audit fieldwork.
- Lead the development of audit test plans and perform IT internal audit fieldwork while ensuring that work papers contain sufficient evidence to support the conclusions and are of a sufficient standard to minimise the number of review points and allow “re-performance”.
- Assist with annual IT JSOX / internal control framework testing including system walkthroughs and flowcharting on an annual basis for all European locations in compliance with the business regulations.
- Present and discuss audit findings with stakeholders up to senior management level.
- Liaise with the stakeholders to obtain progress updates on IT control and audit findings and perform remediation testing.
- Perform IT controls and process testing across all departments and business operations from underwriting, claims, reinsurance, finance, human resources, IT, risk management, Solvency II, governance, compliance and actuarial.
- Document and record all internal audit and JSOX testing on our AuditBoard audit management software.
- Produce accurate and complete working papers for planning and fieldwork testing that clearly support the audit findings.
- Produce the final internal audit report that is presented to the auditees, ensuring that audit findings are clearly articulated for both technical and non-technical audience, with clear root cause, risk, and recommendations.
- Ensure all working paper review points raised by Internal Audit management are accurately cleared on a timely basis.
- Support the Internal Audit management /Internal Audit team with various administration, reporting and departmental tasks.
- Participate in an advisory capacity on system implementation projects and special management requests.
- Keep up to date with regulatory, technological, auditing and legal changes.
- Liaise with staff and management across the insurance group.
Essential
- A minimum of 3 years relevant and progressive professional experience leading IT internal audits and proven ability to drive results.
- Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related Information Technology field or the equivalent in education.
- A team player with excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) who builds strong working relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Keen to develop and grow in a highly collaborative, empowering and busy internal audit team.
- Excel in end-to-end project planning and execution.
- Good organisational skills and proven ability to multi-task.
- Strong report-writing skills with the ability to clearly articulate observations, root cause and risk.
- Have a high attention to detail and accuracy.
- Professional certification or willingness to obtain certification (eg. CISA, CISM, CIA).
- Willingness to travel, most specifically around European branch offices (around 10% of the role).
- Experience working with audit management software, particularly AuditBoard is preferred.
- Insurance and / or financial services experience preferred.
- IT internal audit and controls knowledge and experience in IT and security related industry frameworks (eg. COBIT, ITIL, ISO27001, etc) preferred.