Portfolio Lead (Senior Audit Manager) Payment Platform & Engineering (12 month FTC)

JOB TITLE: Portfolio Lead (Senior Audit Manager) Payment Platform & Engineering (12 month FTC)

SALARY: £90,440 - £131,540 (dependant on location)

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol & London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our hub locations.

About this opportunity

You’ll oversee the end-to-end execution of audits and related action follow up through effective planning and relationship management, manage quality across the portfolio as necessary and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues delivering on your behalf.

You’ll also contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI colleagues through teamwork, collaboration and effective management of resources into change initiatives. Provide career coaching and mentoring to direct report and colleagues in the pool to foster a positive and high-performing team culture.

Day to day, you will:

• Actively oversee the detailed scope and delivery of a significant number of audits in the audit plan and where necessary directly lead particularly complex audits within the portfolio.

• Ensure appropriate planning for Audits in your portfolio, including selecting and supporting Engagement Leads who will project manage individual audits on your behalf.

• Oversee progress, and manage the quality of audit delivery, make appropriate judgements as to when automated or data driven testing is most effective, and keep Audit and Business leadership informed regarding status, risks and other relevant insights.

• Collaborate with resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on portfolio.

• Manage relationship with, provide assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls to business colleagues.

• Proactively suggests and delivers innovating thinking by bringing the outside in.

• Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive different ways to contribute and shape direction for the team.

• Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.

• Act as a career coach, performance manager, or pastoral (line) manager, if applicable, to a number of colleagues within the pool.

• Provide timely, direct and effective feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of direct reports and other team members.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• Experience of auditing private and public cloud platforms, software development lifecycle, DevOps and modern engineering practices and tools.

• Experience of auditing payments products, front-to-back processes, and strong knowledge of Payments regulations

• Experience of identifying key risks associated with the use of technology in business processes, applying IT controls knowledge to audit automated IT/ business controls, and influence implementation of controls by design during transformation initiatives. Highly skilled in writing and agreeing high quality findings and audit reports.

• Ability to challenge change delivery outcome(s) and identify risks/issues/dependencies that may impact agreed outcomes including time, cost, and quality.

• The ability to lead and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development, including the ability to prioritize your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and value-added delivery.

• The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and priorities, connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to strategy at the Macro level

• The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes.

• Strong communication to effectively manage and influence senior relationships independently whilst building credibility and trust.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Good understanding of industry trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI), IT application development (e.g. cloud native apps) capabilities

• Google Cloud, Azure or AWS Cloud certification or equivalent

• Extensive experience of working in Internal/External Audit or a Risk Function with a good knowledge of financial products in Banking and Insurance.

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!