Senior Audit Manager

About Us

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs.

It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in over 60 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

Our People

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference.

Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential. We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organisation spanning over 60 countries and rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

Role Purpose

Leads the audit delivery and actively contributes to the successful execution of a portfolio of audits by ensuring that audits are completed to a high-quality standard and that engagement reports provide assurance and contribute to improving LSEG's risk and control environment.

Lead the audits confidently in line with the audit methodology. Monitor the audit team's progress and be the main point of contact with the team to ensure the audit progresses in line with expectations. Help the audit team resolve immediate issues and escalate issues and blockers to the AD or HoA timely. Run the audit team meetings/scrums.

Deliver allocated audits to time, budget and manage our audit risk through compliance with methodology requirements. Complete supervisory reviews of the audit file timely and ensure quality of the file meets methodology expectations.

Proactively write and share draft issues and report content to gather early feedback and ensure that final product is impactful and of high quality. Actively forward plan to identify hurdles in advance so that there is time to implement solutions and propose ways forward.

Confidently manage audit partners and independently run audit partner meetings. Work with the team to keep the partners up to date with audit progress and findings to maintain our "no surprise" approach.

Role Responsibilities

• Develops an understanding of the key risks and risk drivers for the Divisions; and ensures that the Audit Universe accurately reflects the business operations and that the risk assessments are up to date.
• Leads a portfolio of audits setting standards and driving on-time delivery at each stage of the engagement lifecycle.
• Delivers core components of audit engagements in line with Internal Audit Methodology.
• Produces impactful audit reports influencing partners to improve the control environment.
• Develops and maintains productive relationships across the business and across the audit function with a view to collating and…