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About the Role
Lead IT audit engagements across a portfolio of financial services clients, overseeing end-to-end engagements and reporting directly to directors and partners. This role offers technical credibility and real influence within the financial services audit team.
Responsibilities
- Oversee end-to-end IT audit engagements across a portfolio of banking, insurance, asset management, fintech and payments clients
- Report directly to directors and partners, keeping them informed of progress, risks and issues
- Plan, perform and review testing of IT general controls (ITGCs), application controls and information produced by the entity
- Ensure the IT audit plan responds to risks of material misstatement
- Provide assurance supporting financial statement audits and regulatory frameworks, including service organisation reporting (SOC 1/ISAE 3402) and client assets (CASS)
- Review and sign off deliverables, and escalate complex issues with a recommended response
- Build new business relationships with finance, technology and information security leaders, heads of internal audit and audit committees
- Contribute to proposals, tenders and client conversations, and identify opportunities for wider technology, risk and advisory teams
- Manage engagement financials, including scoping, budgeting, resourcing, fee recovery and scope changes
- Lead and coach multi-location and offshore teams, setting high standards and supporting wellbeing and progression
- Be accountable for quality, including in regulatory inspections by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Requirements
- Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CA or international equivalent), or a recognised IT audit or security qualification (CISA, CISM or CRISC) with relevant experience
- Significant IT audit experience in financial services, ideally from a Big 4 or mid-tier firm, or from internal audit or technology risk in a regulated firm
- Experience overseeing IT audit engagements end to end and supervising teams across a portfolio
- Experience reporting to, and working directly with, directors or partners
- Strong knowledge of ITGCs, application controls and ISA (UK) 315
- Knowledge of linking IT risk to the financial statement audit
- A track record of high audit quality, shown by strong inspection or internal quality review results
- Good understanding of the UK regulatory environment, including the FCA and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)
Skills
- IT audit
- Financial services
- IT general controls (ITGCs)
- Application controls
- ISA (UK) 315
- IT risk
- Financial statement audit
- UK regulatory environment
- FCA
- PRA
- CASS assurance
- Safeguarding assurance
- SOC 1/ISAE 3402 reporting
- Fintech
- Payments
- Crypto
- Digital assets
- Audit analytics
- Automated testing
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
Education Level
- Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CA or international equivalent)
- Recognised IT audit or security qualification (CISA, CISM or CRISC)
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Support for wellbeing and progression
About the Company
- Grant Thornton provides audit, tax and advisory services, empowering clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership.
- With over 5,000 people in the UK and a presence in 150 global markets, Grant Thornton is on an ambitious journey from great to exceptional.
- The company values difference and respects colleagues, fostering an environment where people can perform at their best and realise their potential.
- Grant Thornton's values are purposefully driven, actively curious, and candid but kind.
Equal Opportunity
- Our culture thrives on the contributions of all our people. We never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. We value difference and respect our colleagues, which helps people perform at their best and realise their potential.
- You’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring. The things that set you apart, we value them, and you’re free to bring your whole self to work.