Senior Internal Auditor
Castle Trust, United Kingdom

Overview of Role:

To help provide independent assurance that the significant risks faced by Castle Trust Bank are identified, understood, and appropriately managed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake individual assignments, including planning, fieldwork and preparing and delivering final reports on a timely basis.
• Liaise with all levels of management (up to and including the CEO) to discuss and agree internal audit issues, recommendations, and management actions.
• Be responsible for following up and confirming that management has implemented actions agreed in response to audit issues.
• Undertake ad-hoc reviews and investigations as required by the Internal Audit Manager.
• Maintain internal audit records and files in line with Internal Audit Manual.
• Maintain awareness of developments in internal audit practice.
• Work closely with Castle Trust Bank’s external auditors and the Compliance function and liaise with the outsource providers assurance functions as required.

Responsibilities (all employees) (SMCR):

• Castle Trust has in place policies and procedures that ensure we observe the proper standards for operating - you are responsible for ensuring you understand and abide by these policies and procedures in all you do and take accountability for your actions.
• You are responsible for ensuring you understand and apply the relevant regulations to your role and integrate them into the way you work, understanding and taking ownership of your responsibilities to ensure you deliver objectives in a compliant way.
• You are responsible for ensuring you understand where your role fits within our customer experience and consider the impacts of your actions in all you do, with the constant aim of providing our customers with the best outcomes possible.
• You are responsible for taking ownership of your personal development and having the knowledge, skills and experience that meet the level of competence required by you to deliver results that have a positive impact on our customers’ experience.
• You must ensure appropriate customer outcomes are embedded in the culture of Castle Trust to deliver the six customer outcomes of right culture, right information, right delivery, right targeting, right advice, and right post-sales treatment.

Requirements

Person Specification:

Essential:

• Minimum 3-year recent experience of working in internal audit or a related discipline at senior level (e.g., Top ten accountancy/audit firm).
• Experience of working in a regulated financial services firm.
• Experience in any of the following: mortgages, savings, retail consumer finance, credit risk management, and IT management.
• In depth knowledge of audit methodologies including data analytics capability
• Self- motivated and proactive in approach, able to act independently and on own initiative.
• Good analytical, influencing, presentation and relationship building skills.
• Good working knowledge of UK regulation and key areas of regulatory focus from PRA and FCA.
• Specific expert knowledge of prudential risk management and/or
• Specific expert knowledge of cyber risk and technology controls
• Chartered accountant / chartered internal auditor (e.g. ICAEW, ACCA, IIA) - part-qualified or qualified
• Treasury management qualification and / or
• IT audit certification

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