Internal Audit Analyst Graduate Programme 2024 (Northampton) Northampton, England
Job description
If you're a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate, join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next. Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong.
1-2 year targeted, fast-track program focused on developing specialist technical expertise
At Barclays, our reputation means everything. Internal Audit assists the Board and Executive Management to protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of Barclays. Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) aims to provide independent, reliable, valued, insightful and timely assurance to the Board and Executive Management over the effectiveness of governance, risk management and control over current and evolving risks, in the context of the current and expected business environment and in accordance with the International Standards definition of internal auditing. Sound like the place for you? Join us as an analyst to find out.
The chance to make an impact
You’ll start out with several weeks of intense training, covering product and business knowledge as well as essential skills you’ll need for a successful start with BIA. Then you’ll begin spending time with different audit teams covering a variety of business and functional areas. Along the way you’ll build excellent foundational knowledge while getting to know our business and our people. You will be responsible for:
- Planning audits, including documenting the scope, process understanding, risk and control identification and testing strategies
- Completing audit fieldwork by testing key controls and drawing conclusions about their design and effectiveness
- Discussing and agreeing the factual accuracy of audit issues with the audit team
- Writing high quality issues and recording management’s action plans
- Testing to ensure corrective steps have been taken by auditees
- Keeping up-to-date with risks, issues and changes across relevant business units
- Challenging others, including auditees, where appropriate to make sure the right conclusion is reached
- Ensuring all work is carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements and Barclays’ policies and procedures
- Contributing to risk assessment activity.
Internal Audit at Barclays
Internal Audit is an independent control function that’s critical to our business right around the world. You'll join a team that provides independent, reliable, insightful, and timely assurance to the whole business about effective governance, risk management and how we can control current and evolving risks.
We’ve built a reputation across financial services for our innovative thinking and approach — Barclays Internal Audit are market leaders in Data Analytics and other specialisms, frequently providing speakers at conferences and events. This is your chance to work with industry experts who will help you build your knowledge and support with your career.
Our structured programme will give you the skills you need to be a successful auditor but will also provide a strong foundation in Risk and Controls knowledge that will prove invaluable for any career in Financial Services.
Start your career in the only place which can provide you with a broad picture of the whole of the bank and how Barclays operates at a strategic level.
What we are looking for:
To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated with a strong degree or expected degree – in any area.
Ideally, you would also have:
An analytical mind, with the ability to build relationships, an eagerness to learn and willingness to take on new challenges, as well as an ability to manage your time and resources efficiently.
Working at Northampton
Northampton is a key strategic hub, and home to a community of over 3,000 talented people. Our team is behind global business developments such as fraud leveraging machine learning, and redesigning technology for the contact centre of the future. With so much happening, it’s the ideal place for a diverse career path.
You’ll find our brilliant Barclays minds in our lakeside office, built in 1996. It’s not only environmentally friendly, but also people-friendly too. Here, we encourage wellbeing – from mental health to healthy living to health awareness.
Barclays will require applicants for this position to have legal right to work in the UK
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
