Banking – Internal Audit – Technology Focus – Senior Associate

Glasgow - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Risk

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

About the role

Within our Financial Services Risk practice the Banking Non-Financial Risk & Regulatory Transformation team works with our banking and capital markets clients on their most pressing risk and regulatory programmes. This is an exciting time to join the growing team of over 130 individuals covering retail wholesale and capital markets. We work across Front Office Risk Compliance and Finance functions.

Our teams are self-starting agile and thrive on new and diverse challenges. Our clients are global as are their biggest challenges. We operate globally working with the global PwC network to bring the best of PwC to our clients.

You will be passionate about client service and the fast-paced changing nature of the banking sector. We are particularly interested in individuals who embrace tech-enabled ways of working and are excited about the potential of AI and other transformative technologies.

You will take a leading role across a range of projects to build a broad range of expertise and be passionate about delivering value and insights to your clients. Youll invest time in building your client relationship network and thrive on taking on new challenges in unfamiliar situations.

KeyResponsibilities:

Be a part of the team delivering internal audits and support client internal audit teams to deliver internal audits in accordance with their plans
You will have a client-facing role working as part of our delivery teams on client engagements and coaching junior staff.
Lead across a range of projects to build a broad range of expertise and be passionate about delivering value and insights to your clients.
Building client relationship network and thrive on taking on new challenges in unfamiliar situations.

Typical Internal Audit work includes:

Audits of IT General Controls IT Change management third party risk management (including Cloud and SAAS) Access and Security resilience data security and management and AI governance.
Support across all areas of the Internal Audit lifecycle including planning risk assessments audit execution report writing and audit closure issue validation and committee reporting.
Advisory Internal Audit work including input into external quality assessments quality assurance and digital transformation.

Skills and Experience:

Strong risk and control acumen the ability to connect technology risk to business outcomes and a willingness to learn and develop technical depth through engagement exposure.
Experience working within financial services specifically regarding non-financial and conduct risk and/or controls either from a consulting industry or regulatory perspective.
A proven track record of successfully supporting teams across project work-streams stakeholder management and interpersonal skills and the ability to work proactively under your own initiative.
Strong oral and written communication skills (i.e. report writing).
The ability to apply good judgement and to robustly support conclusions reached to more senior level personnel both internally and externally.
Commercial awareness of retail banking business models and an understanding of the customer journey/experience in a regulated retail banking environment

Experience working on internal or external audits preferred.

Technical understanding and experience performing audits over:
- IT General Controls (ITGCs): Understanding of access management change management and IT operations and how these underpin financial reporting and regulatory assurance.
- Application and Interface Controls: Ability to assess completeness and accuracy of data across systems including interfaces and reconciliations.
- Cloud and SaaS: Familiarity with shared responsibility models and vendor assurance mechanisms (e.g. SOC 1 / SOC 2 reports).
- Information Security Fundamentals: Awareness of security frameworks (ISO 27001 NIST CIS) risk assessment methodologies and governance processes that support the protection of systems and data.

Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Analytical Thinking Business Decisions Business Performance Management C-Level Presentations Communication Compliance Frameworks Compliance Policies Compliance Program Implementation Compliance Review Controls Testing Corporate Governance Creativity Embracing Change Emotional Regulation Empathy External Audit Finance Target Operating Model Finance Transformation Financial Reporting Fraud Detection Fraud Prevention Group Facilitation 17 more

Desired Languages (If blank desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 60%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship

Yes

Government Clearance Required

Job Posting End Date

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Line of ServiceAssuranceIndustry/SectorNot ApplicableSpecialismRiskManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryAbout the role Within our Financial Services Risk practice the Banking Non-Financial Risk & Regulatory Transformation team works with our banking and capital markets clients on...