European IT Internal Audit Senior

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European IT Internal Audit Senior

  • Location:

    United Kingdom

  • Contact:

    Piere Forbes

  • Contact email:

    piere.forbes@equitycity.co.uk

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    641

  • Published:

    about 14 hours ago

  • Expiry date:

    2025-08-08

Title: European IT Internal Audit Senior  
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.
Additional Requirements:
  • 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.
Skills and Experience Specification:
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.
Desirable
  • 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.