Senior Auditor - Liquidity Risk & Capital Management

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Are you an experienced financial services professional with a keen interest in Liquidity Risk/Capital Management?

Are you looking for an opportunity offering great exposure within a growing specialist global team?

This major global player in investment management, custodial and investment services has a well-established and long standing reputation, yet continues to innovate and to grow both organically and through acquisition. The business is the market leader in each of its 3 key lines of business and is the global number 1 in their largest service line. However, the audit function is still small enough that you can enjoy significant responsibility and gain the opportunity to make a real difference in a genuinely friendly and team-focused environment with a collaborative approach and no "politics".

With a culture of employee recognition and of philanthropy that takes sustainability and social responsibility seriously and values its employees accordingly, there is a strong track record of career development within audit, the broader governance function and into other operational areas – both in the UK and overseas. The Audit leadership team really do passionately believe that the function “lives or dies by the team” and has a strong ethos of work/life balance – a culture that can be rare to find in financial services.

The EMEA audit function is led from the UK but globally audit has a number of functional and business facing teams that work across all 4 of their Geographic territories. Their growing Liquidity and Capital Management SME team of c 10 is led from the UK but has a presence right across Europe.

Based in their Manchester office (but with full hybrid flexibility of 1-2 days/week) , this is fantastic opportunity for an experienced audit, risk or compliance professional with a keen interest in and/or experience of the fascinating area of liquidity risk/capital management to join this relatively newly formed and growing dedicated SME team operating across the EMEA region. As a key member of the team, you will enjoy lots of variety and be responsible for the delivery of a wide range of audits covering PRA/Prudential risk, operational risk, governance strategy/framework, liquidity risk, treasury management, ICAAP, ILAAP, stress testing and even climate change. As part of an SME team, you will be working right across the full range of service lines of the business. As your experience grows you will have the opportunity to share audit lead responsibility on a rotational basis.

Your career growth will either be upwards within the team into more of a staff management role or else on into other related areas of the bank eg regulatory, compliance, risk, etc

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Participate end to end in audit engagements with increasing responsibilities over time in prudential risk and other audit reviews in the area of risk, treasury and finance
• Identify meaningful issues impacting business and operations under review, and challenging management to ensure appropriate remediation action is taken
• Maintain global subject matter expertise regarding liquidity and/or capital management, including best practices, key control processes, regulatory requirements and their application across the business
• Provide liquidity and/or capital management specific direction and support to audit management and the audit team in general by advising on necessary training and providing support for any regulatory requests
• Represents Internal Audit on projects and at management meetings/committees

This opportunity has limited travel requirements, though you will work collaboratively on both a physical and a “virtual” basis with other members of the Liquidity & capital Management Audit and other audit teams.

As the ideal candidate you will:

• Have a relevant finance, or business degree
• Ideally hold (or be studying for) a recognised professional qualification eg FRM, MBA, ACA/ACCA/CPA,CFA, CIA etc
• Have at least 3-5 years relevant experience in audit, risk, compliance or treasury within a financial services environment
• Have a keen interest in (and ideally experience of) liquidity and/or capital management (Basel, SREP, ICAAP, ILAAP, RRP)
• Demonstrate a proven track record of managing and delivering risk based projects
• Have good knowledge of the financial services industry and its regulations and laws as well as good governance practices
• Be a team player with enthusiasm and the genuine ambition to build your career
• Have strong communication skills, an engaging style and the ability to build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders – both within the audit function and across the wider business
• Be able to explain technical/complex issues to non-technical audiences and apply logical, well-constructed arguments to persuade and influence others to adopt a new point of view

Please note that you must be eligible to work within the UK without the need for sponsorship to be considered for this opportunity

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