Audit Portfolio Lead - IT Infrastructure Services

We're looking for team players - Who trust each other, act as one team to achieve the best outcomes and make a positive difference to the Group and its customers. We want colleagues who are bold and take action - Confidently innovate, share exceptional insights, deliver difficult messages and drive action that leaves a legacy of significantly improved governance, risk management and control,

• Actively oversee the detailed scope and delivery of a significant number of audits in the audit plan and where necessary directly lead particularly complex audits within the portfolio.
• Ensure appropriate planning for Audits in your portfolio, including selecting and supporting Engagement Leads who will project manage individual audits on your behalf.
• Oversee progress, and manage the quality of audit delivery, make appropriate judgements as to when automated or data driven testing is most effective, and keep Audit and Business leadership informed regarding status, risks and other relevant insights.
• Collaborate with resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on portfolio.
• Manage relationship with, provide assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls to business stakeholders.
• Proactively suggests and delivers innovating thinking by bringing the outside in.
• Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive different ways to make valuable contributions and shape direction for the team.
• Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.
• Act as a career coach, performance manager, or pastoral (line) manager, if applicable, to a number of colleagues within the pool.
• Provide timely, direct and effective feedback that gives to the ongoing development of direct reports and other team members.
Capabilities you'll need: Leading Teams Leading and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development.
• Team & Community Building: Makes decisions based off experience, solves conflicts and establishes goals to collaborates with colleagues in a way to achieve the best results. Maintains a positive attitude, even during challenging times, sharing credit with team members.
• Safety & Trust Building: Keeps commitments and promises and is consistent in words and actions. Seeks out people with different views and encourages them to speak out, especially if they are new to the function and the team/pool.
• Prioritisation & Delegation: Communicates priorities and tasks with clear expectations, allows the whole team to discuss progress and changes. Uses experience to highlight when tasks are off track or changes takes place and re-order activities to the new requirements.
• Performance & Goal Management: Uses consistent criteria, as well as judgement and experience to observe and assess colleague performance. Provides forward looking feedback that is positive and focuses on solutions and options, raises hopes and empowers people to be better.
Audit Delivery The ability to deliver risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued by collaborators. Business Strategy

The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the Macro level. Data Literacy The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes. Managing Self Prioritising your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and value-added delivery. Understanding the critical path for delivery and removing obstacles; planning and preparing to ensure resources are used efficiently and effectively. Taking ownership for personal development and growth, and accountability for one's work and behaviours. Ability to understand and handle different situations, roles and teams with adaptability. Capabilities linked to your work
• Proven experience in reviewing the security and resilience of IT infrastructure and supporting systems.
• Strong knowledge and experience in reviewing IT networks and infrastructure systems architecture.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the security and resilience of data centres and operational requirements.
• Good knowledge of private and public cloud technologies.
• Ability to translate IT infrastructure gaps/risks into business impacts.
• CISA/CISSP or similar qualifications.
Other desirable capabilities linked to your work
• Experience in defining or reviewing IT Strategy.
• Subject matter expert in cloud technologies and related architecture and security frameworks.
• Ability to develop innovative tools to support audit testing and continuous auditing.
• Subject Matter Expert in Mainframe systems.
• Subject matter expert in Middleware Systems (e.g., IBM DataPower, IBM MQ and API Connect)
• Subject matter expert in Batch Management Systems and bulk file transfer technologies (e.g. Connect:Direct and Hyperchannel).
• Knowledge of software development and software engineering methods, practices, and tools across the software development lifecycle., Disability Confident
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Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too About working for us Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.