Audit Senior Manager

NAB City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Purpose:

Oversee the planning, execution and reporting of a small simultaneous portfolio of Audit activity as set out in the Audit Charter and the annual Audit Plan.

• Risk and controls understanding
• Highly organised
• Project Management
• Communicating with influence
• Working with data

• 5+ years in financial services risk-based functions or internal audit in professional services firms.
• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance or IT.

• Behave in line with NAB's values.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to colleagues to promote a performance and development culture.
• Program manage a small portfolio of concurrent audits (2-4) within agreed resource and time budgets.
• Contribute to Annual and Dynamic Planning as directed.
• Provide strategic guidance to audit team leads on scope (risks and hypotheses) and approach, including completion of advanced pre-planning in partnership with the Delivery Head of.
• Support team leads to create succinct and clear audit assignment plans that reflect agreed scope as per the Audit plan.
• Draft succinct and clear audit reports.
• Socialise audit report content with business contacts and manage negotiation to audit report finalisation.
• Resolve audit delivery issues escalated by audit team leads and escalate where they cannot be directly solved.
• Coordinate verification of audit raised issues within internal SLA targets once the business indicate issues are closed, ensuring this is supported by quality work papers.
• Form effective ongoing working relationships with business contacts to facilitate delivery of audits.
• Provide timely ongoing performance feedback and career coaching to direct reports.
• Proactively manage risk; meet all policy and compliance requirements; perform controls; adhere to processes and procedures pertinent to the role; and escalate events, issues or breaches as they are identified.

Note:

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