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Vice President, Senior Audit Manager, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

MUFG Bank, Ltd.
London
2 months ago
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Vice President, Senior Audit Manager, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. Across the globe, we're 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

TBC

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

An exciting new opportunity has emerged for a Senior Audit Manager to join our IT audit team within the EMEA Internal Audit function. Senior Audit Managers are responsible for executing and delivering all audit engagements assigned to them by the Chief Auditor and Heads of Audit. The role includes some responsibilities in relation to annual planning and the risk universe.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Supporting the planning of audits by the Heads of Audit and Audit Directors and assist the Heads of Audit with their respective Portfolios, risk universe sections, risk assessments and audit plans.
  • Assisting with strategy and approach papers for entities and risks within their Head of Audit's portfolio, as directed.
  • To have, or to develop, specialist areas of subject matter expertise, specifically related to IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity.
  • Deliver continuous monitoring assignments for agreed entities under the supervision of Audit Directors.
  • Maintain constructive relationships with stakeholders so that audit planning and delivery is achieved smoothly and professionally.
  • Lead audit engagement to the required methodology standard. May have responsibility for multiple engagements concurrently.
  • Provide ongoing feedback to the Audit Director during and at the end of each engagement; escalate any performance related issues to the Audit Director or Head of Audit. May include coaching team members.
  • Support the implementation of good practice throughout the team by maintaining a strong understanding of the audit methodology.
  • Display strong appreciation of risk and control in banking.
  • Coordinate Management Action Plans directly with stakeholders.
  • Assist the Head of Audit in preparing third party submissions for the Chief Auditor.
  • Work collaboratively with all Internal Audit & Credit Exam colleagues regionally and globally.
  • From time to time, may also be required to take a team role in non-'BAU' initiatives e.g. a working group.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

  • Extensive experience of working in an IT Audit function within the Wholesale/Investment Banking Sector, or similar Big-4 experience with relevant industry exposure;
  • Extensive experience of delivering integrated audit engagements, working closely with business audit teams.
  • Technology infrastructure and cybersecurity audit knowledge and demonstrable understanding of key risks and corresponding audit techniques.
  • Demonstrable experience of leading multiple concurrent complex audits.

Preferred:

  • Experience of working in a 1st line technology role.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential

  • Relevant technology and industry qualifications e.g. CISA, CISSP, CISM, CIA, ACA

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
  • A proactive, motivated approach.
  • The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
  • Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
  • A structured and logical approach to work
  • Strong problem solving skills
  • A creative and innovative approach to work
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
  • Strong numerical skills

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination.
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