Risk And Audit Manager (3609)
GBG, United Kingdom
Job Description
***Whilst primarilly remote this role will require some office attendance - at Chester hub or London hub. Please only apply if you are able to attend either of these locations.***
About GBG
GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage, and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification, and fraud prevention solutions.
With over 30 years’ of experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud.
Why you should be@GBG
- We make the world a safer place
- We trust each other and win together
- We are local experts in a global business
- We want you to be yourself
- We grow when you grow
The Team
Primarily, day to day management of risk and assurance activities are managed and coordinated from within the Group’s information security team.
The Role
You will be reporting into GBG’s CISO and Risk Manager and you will be responsible for conducting audit activities to provide independent assurance to the Board that GBG is well controlled, that any weaknesses are being dealt with in a timely manner, supporting the continued development of GBG’s risk management processes and coordinating GBG’s response to major incidents. We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate experience undertaking monitoring, auditing, and testing and who has experience of leading risk management processes. You will be pragmatic, organised, flexible, confident in front of a senior audience and good with people collobaration.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain a prioritised audit plan, with a primary focus initially on financial controls.
- Develop and maintain GBG’s audit methodology.
- Conduct audit assignments in line with the plan.
- Collate the outcomes of testing or management information conducted elsewhere in the business to provide timely reporting to the Risk and Audit Committee.
- Undertake short reviews where risks are identified which require speedy assurance.
- Provide oversight of any major change initiatives which feature on the assurance plan.
- Maintain audit trails, evidence, and track any actions required by the business.
- Keep abreast of external and internal developments which may impact the audit plan.
- Assist GBG’s risk manager with the developing and implementing the risk management framework, including running risk workshops/reviews.
- Produce insightful reports on the testing conducted and inform the relevant parties of any issues raised.
- Assist GBG’s Risk Manager in coordinating GBG’s response to major incidents.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the Team by the sharing of technical and business knowledge.
- Champion and promote GBG’s proactive positive risk culture.
Requirements
What We're Looking For
- Demonstrable experience undertaking audit reviews.
- Familiarity with recognised audit approaches and methodologies.
- Report writing.
- Stakeholder management skills.
- Financial and Operational risk management/audit experience.
- Change management experience.
- Relevant external qualification e.g. CIMA/ACCA/CII.
- Understanding of risk management methodology.
- Excellent communicator with great soft skills
- Flexible, resilient, and able to change focus on demand.
- ·Commercial awareness and a commitment to the aims of our business
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Demonstrates ability to learn quickly within a continually changing, challenging environment
Behaviours we'd like to see
Benefits
To find out more
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