Extended Assurance - Internal Audit, Wealth & Asset Management - Senior - London
EY
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Desire to build / develop a career in assisting Wealth & Asset Management clients with delivering internal audit reviews and associated services, including developing audit plans, preparing audit committee reporting and enhancing the overall control environment.
- Technical skills including knowledge of risk management frameworks and control processes, including COSO plus a working knowledge of core business processes relating to HR, Finance and Compliance. Experience of key Wealth & Asset Management areas (Front office / Operations / Central Functions all of relevance) of interest from front to back office, beneficial topics include (but not limited to):
- Product Development
- Distribution / Origination
- Investment strategy
- Dealing
- Corporate Actions
- Compliance
- GDPR
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Finance operations
- Human Resources
- Regulatory Reporting
- Regulation
- Governance
- Using pre-existing methodologies to deliver internal audit services, including qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, control testing and audit reporting.
- Delivery of end-to-end delivery of internal audit reviews, including scoping, developing the audit approach and preparing and presenting audit reports. Experience of evaluating controls in complex business processes.
- Build constructive and supportive relationships with senior management, both at EY and clients.
- Being receptive to coaching and feedback from peers and management.
- Reviewing workpapers and deliverables prepared by junior staff and coaching for enhancement
- Detail orientated with sufficient intellectual rigor and flexibility to manage complex information and identify key elements.
- High level of drive, resilience and tenacity and ability to work under pressure.
- Strong business writing skills, including writing business development documentation, audit reports and internal memos
- Develop a multi-disciplinary network across EY to bring insight and value to your clients.
- Bring a detailed knowledge of the CIIA FS Code and its application
- Degree level education ideally with an accounting or internal audit professional qualification.
- Experience of coaching junior colleagues, eg. graduates a benefit
- Experience in working in innovative and collaborative solution development a benefit
- Experience of working with regulator mandated projects, such as s166 (or equivalent), either on behalf of the regulator or insurer a benefit.
- Experience in delivering data analysis using entry level tools (Spotfire, Tableau or equivalent) in an internal audit or internal controls assessment environment.
- Working on External Quality Assessments of Internal Audit functions
- Knowledge of key audit technologies (e.g. TeamMate, Auto Audit etc)
- Successful candidates would be expected to 90% utilised on chargeable engagements