Audit Manager – Economic Crime Prevention

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End Date

Friday 08 March 2024

Salary Range

£0 - £0

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Audit Manager – Economic Crime Prevention

LOCATION(S): Bristol or Edinburgh (will consider applications from other locations)

SALARY: £68,202 - £83,358 (Dependant on location

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN:  Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We're looking for an experienced economic crime professional to join a diverse and committed internal audit team working across the Lloyds Banking Group's global businesses as an audit manager. This exciting role will provide the opportunity to work with senior leaders and influence on a variety of audits in the important space of anti-money laundering, sanctions, bribery/corruption and tax evasion risk and fraud.

You'll be part of the third line of defence team responsible for providing assurance to the board over the way Lloyds Banking Group manages economic crime risk. You'll contribute to, and lead audits in accordance with the agreed plan, harnessing a deep understanding of economic crime risks to provide high quality independent assurance on the effectiveness of controls.

Day to day responsibilities of the role will include:

• Audit Planning and Execution: Lead or support planning of audits end to end ensure resource and timelines can be met. Oversee or carry out control testing and identify areas of concern.

• Audit Report: Co-ordinate write up testing completed and any associated observations and findings.

• Issue follow-up: Lead the follow-up and subsequent remediation of audit issues identified.

• Business Monitoring: Proactively monitor and risk assess business processes and activities, escalating any concerns through leadership team.

• Sharing of Insights: Collaborate and where appropriate provide SME insight for other teams within Group Audit including bringing the outside in.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need:

• Experience of economic crime risk management or internal audit/assurance within financial services looking after economic crime. Areas of expertise will include anti-money laundering, sanctions, bribery and corruption, tax evasion and/ or fraud risk.

• Ability to contribute to, and lead audits with relative autonomy, harnessing a deep understanding of financial crime risks across different businesses.

• Excellent project management skills, enabling delivery of high-quality outputs, within deadline and budget.

• Ability to successfully influence and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate direction and empower others to deliver within a high-performance culture.

• Strong self-awareness with the desire to go above and beyond; strong drive and determination to achieve.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• ACAMS or ICA Financial Crime qualification or equivalent

• Practical experience of managing or auditing AML risk in financial services

• Practical experience of managing or auditing Economic Sanctions in financial services

• Internal audit knowledge and experience

• Experience of coaching and developing others

• Regulatory experience specifically relating to economic crime

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.