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About the Role

The Director, Internal Audit is a senior leadership role responsible for delivering the EMEA Internal Audit mandate across nine entities. This role requires a senior assurance leader to oversee the risk-based audit plan, audit delivery, quality, methodology, people leadership, and operating model resilience.

Responsibilities

• Own the risk-based EMEA Internal Audit plan process, including development, refresh, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery oversight.
• Ensure audit coverage remains risk-based, timely, evidence-led, and aligned to the Internal Audit Charter, professional standards, entity risk profiles, and committee expectations.
• Maintain active visibility over portfolio delivery status, emerging risks, resourcing, material findings, and remediation themes.
• Provide senior oversight and challenge across audit portfolios, including engagement scope, testing strategy, evidence sufficiency, issue grading, root-cause analysis, report narratives, and audit plan implications.
• Act as the directly accountable leader for the Clearing franchise, bringing technical depth to complex CCP, risk management, and regulatory-sensitive engagements.
• Promote consistency of sign-off standards across portfolio owners through thorough review of audit deliverables.
• Support preparation of committee materials, including concise updates on audit plan status, findings, validation, watchlist themes, emerging risks, and material matters requiring governance attention.
• Maintain the discipline of no surprises by escalating High/Critical findings, regulatory-sensitive issues, cross-entity findings, and recurring remediation weaknesses promptly and clearly.
• Lead the London team framework below Head level, including appraisal calibration, development planning, hiring below Director level, and promotion recommendations.
• Coach Senior Managers, Managers, Lead Auditors, and staff on scoping, evidence, sampling, root-cause analysis, report writing, stakeholder management, and committee-ready messaging.
• Build succession depth and resilience through cross-portfolio deployment, cross-training, documented handovers, and a visible career pathway.
• Support delivery of internal activities related to methodology refinement and engagement-level quality sampling.
• Drive practical improvements to ways of working, including integrated audit scoping, reusable playbooks, sharper reporting, data-led testing, and stronger linkage between business and technology controls.
• Consolidate inputs, risk assessments, entity priorities, regulatory themes, horizontal audit candidates, and cross-entity thematic papers into a coherent annual planning recommendation.
• Champion the responsible adoption of analytics, automation, and AI-enabled techniques in audit planning, testing, and reporting.

Requirements

• Significant Internal Audit, assurance, risk, or control leadership experience in complex, regulated financial services like market infrastructure, clearing, exchange, post-trade, or adjacent environments.
• Ability to oversee audit delivery across multiple portfolios, business models, and jurisdictions, including through senior managers and managers.
• Strong understanding of governance, operational risk, regulatory expectations, risk and control frameworks, and the role of Internal Audit under a Board-approved charter and professional standards framework.
• Demonstrable ability to lead complex audits as an audit mandate controller, including scoping, testing strategy, evidence evaluation, root-cause analysis, issue drafting, and senior stakeholder challenge.
• Ability to brief senior leaders, handle difficult Q&A, and communicate clearly under pressure.
• People leadership capability - coaching, calibration, development planning, performance conversations, and promotion or hiring input for high-performing audit teams.
• Strong written communication - concise, precise, evidence-based, proportionate, and suitable for executive, Board, and regulator-facing audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline such as Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Engineering, Sciences, Law, Risk, or Technology.

Skills

• Risk-based audit plan development
• Audit delivery oversight
• Quality assurance
• Methodology refinement
• People leadership
• Operating model resilience
• Risk assessment
• Stakeholder management
• Data analysis
• Automation
• AI-enabled techniques

Location

• London
• Amsterdam
• Singapore
• Abu Dhabi

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior leadership
• Director

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Master's degree in relevant field preferred
• Professional credentials or advanced study such as CIA, CISA, ACA/ACCA/CPA, CFA, FRM, MBA, LLM or equivalent qualification

About the Company

• The ICE Internal Audit Group is a global function with more than 80 staff across the US, UK and India.
• The London team provides independent, reliable and timely assurance over the control environment across nine entities in London, Amsterdam, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, spanning clearing houses, exchanges, a trade repository and a benchmark administrator.