Job description
Job Description
Title: Audit Manager
Area: Group Internal Audit
Location: 135 Bishopsgate, London (Hybrid)
Hire type: Full time, permanent
Group Overview:
The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.
Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.
Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.
The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Group Internal Audit Overview:
The Group Internal Audit (GIA) function is responsible for enhancing and protecting the organisational value of TP ICAP plc globally by providing risk-based and objective (independent) assurance, advice and insight. The team assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of TP ICAP’s risk management, control, and governance processes and makes recommendations for improvements. GIA is split across three geographic regions; EMEA, Americas and APAC with locations in London, New York and Singapore.
Role Responsibilities:
This role supports the Senior Audit Manager (SAM) and Head of Audit (HoA) by:
- Driving and delivering a portfolio of high-quality risk-based audit services across the business; and
- Assisting in the management of strategic relationships with key GIA stakeholders by ensuring the risks associated with latest business plans are fully considered and by providing independent opinion and assurance on the strength of the control framework and the effectiveness of business risk management.
You will be/have:
- Responsibility for the delivery of high-quality audit reporting to time and cost budgets. The GIA function delivers approximately 45-55 audit assignments per year.
- Accountability to the SAM, with responsibility for audit execution within that portfolio.
- Direct line responsibility for audit staff working on each assignment within the portfolio.
- Optional travel (approx. 20-35% depending on portfolio) is an element of this role, as deemed necessary, to complete audit engagements and to fulfil stakeholder engagement, building deep relationships.
- Executing a dynamic risk-based audit plan ensuring the audit activity focuses on key areas of most significant business risk. Monitors and anticipates regulatory and business change and assesses the potential impact. Provides an appropriate level of assurance, that the most significant risks to the business are being well managed.
- Managing a workload of assigned audit resources, ensuring the quality of audit files and that all audit work complies with GIA’s audit methodology and standards. Delivering audits on time and to agreed budgets, presents control gaps/failures to management on a timely basis and agrees commercially viable audit recommendations and business actions to address areas of risk and failures in the control framework.
- The ability to influence stakeholders to embed risk management practices, thereby enhancing internal control practices and improving the overall strength of their control framework through the delivery of high-quality audit reports and focused audit opinions.
- Using influencing, negotiating and diplomacy skills to manage key internal and external stakeholder relationship, works closely with business management to ensure business plans and initiatives are considered within GIA’s risk assessment and audit plans.
- Analysing audit opinions and conclusions providing input to GIA commentary to the Audit Committee (and other relevant business committees/meetings), on significant areas of concern and the remedial actions required to mitigate risk to the Group.
- Working as part of an effective team and contributes proactively to achieving GIAs performance objectives.
Experience / Competences:
We are looking for an experienced candidate with the ability to demonstrate:
Technical
- Audit/Testing Methodology
- Analytical Review
- IT Skills
- Control Evaluation
- Business Knowledge
Behavioural
- Negotiation & Influencing
- Professionalism
- Assertiveness & Confidence
- Enthusiasm & Initiative
- Teamwork
- Communication (written/verbal)
Company Statement:
The TP ICAP Group is committed to promoting Equality and Diversity and encouraging a culture that actively values difference. It is recognised that employees from different backgrounds and experiences can bring valuable insights to the work environment and enhance the way we work. TP ICAP aims to create a positive, cohesive and inclusive culture, where diversity is valued, respected and built upon. The objective is to recruit and retain a diverse workforce that reflects the global markets in which we work.
TP ICAP is also committed to ensuring that the backgrounds, beliefs and cultures of all its employees are respected and to ensuring that the working environment is free from discrimination, harassment, bullying or any other conduct which causes an employee’s suffering. The Group also is committed to encouraging diversity amongst its current workforce and candidates.
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Location
UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London