Head of Audit Quality, Method & Platforms

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a bold and innovate leader with vision, who turns ideas into action rapidly, learns and fails fast, and takes colleagues and stakeholders along with them.

Whilst you will be individually highly capable, you will deliver most effectively as part of a team-of-teams to achieve the best outcomes and make a positive difference to the Group and its customers. You will cut through hierarchy, silos and bureaucracy with a relentless focus on helping Group Audit & Conduct Investigations to be the very best it can be in service of our wider Group and Customers in support of the ultimate purpose of Helping Britain Prosper.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the leadership team of the GA&CI Chief Operating Officer and in support of the Chief Internal Auditors and Executive Team:

• Own and continuously improve the Group Audit Methodology and ways of working. Lead the development of best practices in audit delivery, ensuring ongoing conformance with relevant standards and regulations
• Oversee the effective running of the GA&CI Platform team, an “in-business” team of data and software engineers who are responsible for the development of the core Audit platform
• Own and be responsible for the execution of the GA&CI Quality Assurance and Improvement Plan
• Work in close collaboration with the Data Science and AI team to enable their industry leading work on data analytics and development of AI solutions for GA&CI.
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders including senior executives and work collaboratively with colleagues across the function, First and Second Lines of Defence
• Promote and role model the Group’s values to drive cultural transformation.

Capabilities you’ll need:

Leading Teams

Lead and take ownership of delivery, while championing the growth and development of colleagues.

• Team & Community Building: Motivates and inspires colleagues around a common goal.
• Safety & Trust Building: Creates a safe environment for innovation that cultivates a 'fail fast and learn’ culture.
• Prioritisation & Delegation: Instils trust to motivate independent working and empowers teams to shape and drive their own portfolios, coaching as required.
• Performance & Goal Management: Coaches for high performance, guiding colleagues to take ownership of performance and development
• Coaching & Feedback: Acts as a trusted advisor and provides insightful, motivating, and strategic thoughts and ideas and leads people to the solution rather than ‘telling’.

Project & Programme Delivery

The ability to deliver process and technological change effectively in a complex environment, to drive through novel solutions that often mean being the first adopter.

Business Strategy

The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the Macro level

Data Literacy, Automation and Artificial Intelligence

The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, to use data to drive effective outcomes; design and lead the deployment of technology and find opportunities to use AI solutions to automate work, simplify tasks and derive greater insights.

Managing Self

Prioritising your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and beneficial delivery. Understanding the critical path for delivery and removing obstacles; planning and preparing to ensure resources are used efficiently and effectively. Taking ownership for personal development and growth, and accountability for one's work and behaviours. Ability to understand and handle different situations, roles and teams with adaptability.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.