Job Description

My client is looknig for an IT Auditor (VP level) for a FS client of mine. Please note that no sponsorship is available for this role. They only accept candidates from banking or FS 2 Days per week in London office (near Canary Wharf)
What you will be doing:

• Play a critical role in the delivery of the audit plan. This will involve hands-on end-to-end delivery of a range of Technology and Operational audits across the company, both autonomously or leading teams of specialists, and reviewing team members work where applicable.
• Proactively plan, organize, perform, and manage work with minimal supervision at the same time be a strong team player.
• Support issue validation, control testing and identify areas of concern, articulating potential risk challenges.
• Support the continuous monitoring process for proactive identification of emerging risks within the technology division.
• Support the director and other senior colleagues build meaningful stakeholder relationships whilst making your own connections.
• Support the identification, build, and development of audit tools to drive efficiencies and innovations in the audit function.
• Proactively recommend and deliver improvements in the current technology risk landscape by being bold.
• Put the team first by leading junior team members with purpose, being present with the team and openly communicating expectations.
• Freely share timely insights, direct, effective feedback that contributes to the success of the audit plan and leaves a positive, sustainable impact on the function.

What we're looking for:

• Experience working within Internal Audit, or Technology Risk & Control in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and audit experience across a range of different information technology disciplines in a financial institution.
• Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated audits.
• Good analytical and critical thinking skills, particularly in data management, data analysis, and ETL processes. Knowledge of how to use or apply data analytics to drive impactful audit outcomes, continuous risk monitoring and data analysis is desirable.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of management and interacting with C-suite executives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (verbal and written), including the ability to deliver challenging messages at all levels of management.
• Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g., FRBNY.
• Strong IT security and technical knowledge with approximately 5 years of experience within the industry.
• Strong operational and technical resilience knowledge, including Disaster Recovery.
• Working experience with common security/technology risk frameworks, for instance, ISO 27000, NIST, CIS Critical Security Controls, COBIT, IIA GTAG.
• Working experience with regulatory standards / requirements (US, UK) i.e., GDPR, BCBS 239, FFIEC 101, 3402, CHAPS, DORA.
• Working experience and/or knowledge of cloud, block chain, high volume transaction systems.
• Working experience and/or knowledge of application controls, input/output, configuration.
• Working experience and/or knowledge middleware, networks, operating systems, databases (Unix, Windows, AIX, DB2, Citrix).
• Working experience and/or knowledge of data analytics/ predictive analytics, data governance.
• Understand policy/directives, and ability to assess risks across all types of IT systems and operations

Professional qualifications / certifications

• Degree level education - Bachelor's (BSc) degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology/Security, or related field of study preferred.
• Whilst not a pre-requisite, relevant professional qualifications would be a plus such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)

If the above is of interest please message me on darius.goodarzi@robertwalters.com or call me on 0207 509 8040. Or apply to this ad.
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About the job
Contract Type: Permanent
Specialism: Technology & Digital
Focus: Information Security
Industry: Banking
Salary: 110,000 - 130,000 per annum
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior Management
Location: London FULL_TIME
Job Reference: LRHBIV-B32ABEEC
Date posted: 8 August 2025
Consultant: Darius Goodarzi london information-technology/information-security 2025-08-08 2025-10-07 banking London London GB GBP 110000 130000 130000 YEAR Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.co.uk https://www.robertwalters.co.uk/content/dam/robert-walters/global/images/logos/web-logos/square-logo.png true