Vice President, Internal Audit (Information Security) in London

About CLS

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars' worth of currency flows through our systems each day. Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job Information

• Functional title - Internal Audit (Information Security)
• Department - Internal Audit
• Corporate level - Vice President
• Report to - Director, Internal Audit (Information Security)
• Location - London, on‑site 2 days per week

What you will be doing

CLS Internal Audit (IA) is an independent function. The Chief Internal Auditor (CIA) reports functionally to the Chairman of the Audit & Finance Committee and administratively to the Chief Executive Officer. The IA team provides a comprehensive audit service to the CLS Group of Companies and controls advice to the Board and senior management.

The Vice President will support the Director in providing risk‑based integrated audit coverage and independent assessment of the effectiveness of key applications, projects, and related IT controls and risks across CLS. IA’s ways of working reflect the requirements of CLS’s designation as a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU). The requirements of the Audit Plan are diverse and challenging. The Vice President will be primarily focused on leading audits, continuous monitoring, issue validation, and leading on departmental improvement initiatives. It is important that the Vice President be versatile and flexible in working in a team on a larger/complex audit, or individually on less complex audits under the direction of the Director. Importantly, the Vice President will be expected to have a good understanding of financial services business practices and will be able to contribute to integrated audits of CLS’s various business divisions.

Stakeholder Management / Strategic (15%)

• Develop and maintain working relationships with peers across the organization.
• To monitor strategic developments within CLS 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 and the Audit & Finance Committee.
• 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.
• Support the director in strategic improvements including Continuous Auditing, Data Analytics, Development of control Dashboards, and Automated Testing Capabilities.
• Stand in for the director in times of absence to represent the Internal Audit Information Security team at Tollgates, Continuous Monitoring sessions, and provide Senior Management with progress updates.

Audit Execution and Management: (80%)

• 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.
• Soft reviews of and coaching to more junior IA members’ work (Senior Associate and Associate).
• 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.
• Assist the wider Internal Audit Division in areas of Information Security, including participating in integrated audits, providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in planning activities, and knowledge sharing.
• Provide timely progress updates within the reporting system and to the director in the daily stand‑up calls.

Professional Development (5%)

• 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.

What we’re looking for

• 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.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of management.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g., 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, Cloud Controls Matrix, COBIT, and IIA GTAGs.
• Working experience with regulatory standards / requirements (US, UK) i.e., 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 middleware, networks, operating systems, databases (Unix, Windows, AIX, DB2, Citrix).
• Working experience and/or knowledge of data analytics/ predictive analytics, data governance.
• Must be a strong team player, able to integrate and work alongside a diverse team of professionals to drive team success.
• Confident in managing integrated and non‑integrated audits, and leading other audit team members.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (verbal and written), including the ability to deliver challenging messages at all levels of management.
• Must be able to work independently on projects without assistance.
• Proactive, self‑motivated - ability to plan, organise, perform, and manage work with minimal supervision.
• Results oriented – able to deliver high quality results in an environment of changing demands, variable workloads, and tight timescales.
• Ability to engage stakeholders.
• Innovative problem‑solving approach. Able to think on a broad scale about issues affecting the company, not just those related to IA or the control environment.
• Able to interpret internal and external issues and recommend solutions/best practices.

Professional qualifications / certifications

• Degree level education (desirable) - bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study preferred.
• Audit / Project Management Certifications (required) - CISA, CISM or CISSP.
• Audit / Project Management Certifications (desirable) - CMIIA (UK), CIA (US), CGEIT, CompTIA, SANS, ISC2, Prince2, Agile etc.

Our commitment to employees

At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

• Holiday – UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to)