Lloyds Banking Group
Audit Portfolio Lead
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-end audit execution and action follow-ups through effective planning and relationship management across portfolio of audits.
- Providing timely, actionable feedback, empowering colleagues, and contributing to their development through collaboration, career coaching, and mentoring to maintain a high-performing team.
- Independent business monitoring through regular conversations with senior leaders and representing Group Audit at Committees to influence decisions.
- Managing relationships with colleagues, including senior executives, and collaborating with colleagues across the function, First and Second Lines of Defence.
Skills and Expertise
- Experience auditing private and public cloud platforms, software development lifecycle, modern engineering practices, and tools.
- Good understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its application in Economic Crime.
- Proven track record of leading Economic Crime audits, expertise in auditing key products, front-to-back processes, channels, and IT systems.
- Experience identifying key risks associated with technology use in business processes, applying IT controls knowledge to audit automated business controls, and influence implementation of controls during transformation initiatives.
- Highly skilled in writing and agreeing high-quality findings and audit reports.
- Critical thinking ability to use internal, external, business, and technology information to provide forward-looking and impactful insights on current and emerging risks and opportunities.
- Strong communication skills to manage and influence senior relationships independently while building credibility and trust.
- Strong project management skills to multitask and succeed in a fast-paced environment.
- Extensive experience in Financial Services, Internal/External Audit or a Risk Function with a good knowledge of financial products in Banking and Insurance.
- (Optional) Knowledge of Economic Crime regulations.
- (Optional) International Compliance Association (ICA) qualifications or equivalent.
Job Facilities/Benefits
- Generous pension contribution (up to 15%)
- Annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes, including free shares
- Lifestyle-adaptable benefits (e.g., discounted shopping)
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies