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About the Role
As Head of Internal Audit, you will join the high-performing Group Internal Audit (GIA) team, helping the Group achieve its objectives through impactful assurance and unique insights. GIA is a dynamic team that combines deep domain expertise with commercial awareness to drive risk and control improvements during enterprise transformation, utilizing leading audit tools, AI, and data capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead GIA’s assurance across business and conduct risk domains, including operations, customer, and compliance in the 1st and 2nd Lines.
- Oversee strategic audit planning, audit delivery, and quality assurance.
- Engage in frequent senior stakeholder interactions.
- Shape and deliver functional strategy as part of the GIA leadership team.
- Evolve professional practices and run day-to-day team operations.
- Influence culture and behaviour.
- Manage direct reports.
- Lead the planning and prioritization of audits within the domain.
- Contribute to the development of the annual Group audit plan and audit universe.
- Review and approve audit scopes and sign off all final audit reports within the domain.
- Provide direction, challenge, and oversight to Senior Audit Managers and Audit Managers during audit delivery.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior management and other assurance functions.
- Foster a supportive culture where people perform at their best through curiosity and coaching.
- Attend management and board governance committees to present audit reporting.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading internal audits of core banking products, processes, and customer journeys across savings and mortgage lending lifecycles.
- Experience with operational risk, customer, conduct, and compliance management processes and frameworks, including their implementation and embedding across business areas.
- Specialist knowledge in at least one of the following domains: Customer, Conduct, Savings or Mortgage Lending, or Operational Risk Management.
- Specialist skills in internal audit and controls assurance are essential.
- Specialist skills in strategic audit planning and dynamic risk assessment are essential.
Skills
- Internal audit
- Controls assurance
- Strategic audit planning
- Dynamic risk assessment
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Stakeholder management
Location
- London
- Wolverhampton
- Chatham
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Experience Level
- Head of Internal Audit
- Senior management
Salary/Compensations
- £100,000- £125,000
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus opportunity
- 30 days annual leave
- Pension scheme with employer contributions (3% employee/6% employer or 5% employee/8% employer)
- Enhanced family-focused benefits
- Hybrid-working
About the Company
- At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too!
- Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become ‘the bank of the future’.
- Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone can thrive.
- We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions to apply.
- We champion diversity at all levels.
- We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector.
- We are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.