Job Specifications
AVP - Internal Auditor (Cyber Security)
London, Docklands (Hybrid)
£85,000 - £90,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
On behalf of a Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Internal Auditor with a background in a Cyber Security environment. The internal auditor will be primarily focused on leading audits, continuous monitoring, issue validation, and leading on departmental improvement initiatives.
The organisation offers hybrid working with a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore you must be within reasonable commuting distance to London.
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain working relationships with peers across the organization.
To monitor strategic developments within the business to highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues.
Perform continuous monitoring of the business through frequent stakeholder engagement, under the direction of the director, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management.
Identify areas for improvement within Internal Audit and play a leading role on department improvement initiatives.
Support and provide input into the Internal Audit risk assessment process to inform the Audit Plan.
Execution of planning and testing for complex technology, information security audits and high-level reviews, including designing test strategies, audit test papers and drafting of audit findings.
Validation to confirm management's remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
Management and tracking of businesses remediation activities.
Actively contributing to the ongoing improvement of audit practices and methodology.
Proactively maintain knowledge, skills, and disciplines, with on-going professional development.
Identify and share useful learning opportunities for other Internal Audit team members.
Maintain the professional standard of the Internal Audit function and work within its agreed Terms of Reference and IIA standards/guidelines, Charter, and Mandate.
Demonstrate adaptability to ensure that the audit focus is maintained on key issues, under the guidance of audit senior management.
Experience/Skills required:
Experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and audit experience across a range of different information technology in a financial institution.
Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated audits.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, eg, FRBNY, FCA.
Strong IT security and technical knowledge with approximately 8 years of experience within the industry.
Working experience with common security/technology risk frameworks, for instance, ISO 27000, NIST, CIS Critical Security Controls, COBIT, and IIA GTAGs.
Working experience with regulatory standards/requirements (US, UK) ie, GDPR, BCBS 239, FFIEC 101, 3402, CHAP.
Working experience and/or knowledge of Security domains including Access management, Threat management, Incident response and recovery, Data protection, Vulnerability management, Monitoring and logging, Physical security, and Security risk management and governance.
Working experience and/or knowledge of cloud, block chain, high volume transaction systems.
Working experience and/or knowledge of application controls, input/output, configuration, application controls.
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.
Audit/Project Management Certifications (desirable) - CMIIA (UK), CIA (US), CISA, CGEIT, CISSP, CISM, CompTIA, SANS, ISC2, Prince2, Agile etc.