Internal Audit Senior Manager (BRS)

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As a Technology Audit Senior Manager within our Business Risk Services (BRS) team you will:

• Take ownership and lead on allocated assignments in a way that exceeds client expectations while taking responsibility for managing and developing staff.
• Be responsible for overseeing the delivery of a number of technology internal audit / technology risk engagements, and manage portfolio of technology audit / technology risk engagement and relationships with clients.
• Support on business development activities, winning new clients and upselling services to existing clients.
• Lead on planning conversations with clients, and in the preparation of draft terms of reference/audit planning documents.
• Provide subject matter expert input into technology audit / technology risk engagements and oversee fieldwork performed by more junior team members, ensuring all work is performed in accordance with Grant Thornton methodologies.
• Oversee, and review the work of, junior members of the team, supporting development and ensuring quality in the work performed.
• Hold close-out meetings with clients to ensure that they have a full understanding of issues identified and these are agreed, and write reports summarising the key observations from the work performed.
• Present reports and findings at Audit Committees and other senior management committees.
• Support in the development of new technology audit / technology risk service lines and initiatives within BRS, with a focus (but not exclusively) on Cloud assurance.
• Assist with the financial management of client relationships, including monitoring WIP, raising invoices, ensuring an adequate margin is achieved on engagements, and preparing budgets.
• Lead on the developing annual audit plans.

Knowing you’re right for us:

The minimum criteria you’ll need is a professional qualification (CISA, CCAK, CCSK, CCSP etc.) with post qualification experience, and to be confident managing a large portfolio of internal audit clients. It would be great if you had some of the following skills:

• Experience of scoping, delivering, and reporting on technology internal audits, and in presenting conclusions to relevant stakeholders.
• Experience of managing internal audits of large companies in addition to dealing with complex technical matters.
• Experience of delivering a technology audit / technology risk covering a broad range of areas, including cyber and network security, IT resilience, IT transformations, IT strategies, data protection, supplier management, and others.
• Strong experience of a range of cloud governance, technical configuration, and cloud specific topics such as security, data protection/privacy, availability, resilience, disaster recovery, performance, cost management, third-party management, and change management.
• Experience of auditing public (such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) and/or private (such as VMWare) cloud platforms.
• Knowledge and familiarity with the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix, cloud vendor Well Architected frameworks and Agile methodologies.
• Ideally a good track record of performing IT audits over DevSecOps / CICD pipelines, including release management, source code management, testing, security, use of tools and automation.
• Extensive experience of using audit software and Microsoft packages.
• Experience of building extensive and active networks across geographical regions and client organisations.

You’ll be proactive rather than reactive in your approach and personal goals are congruent with those of the firm.

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Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.