A leading international bank is looking to hire an VP Internal Auditor into its EMEA team in London. This is a newly created position driven by the continued expansion of the bank’s trading activities, with a particular focus on strengthening audit coverage across liquidity risk.
The role will provide exposure across front office trading, treasury, risk, finance and operations, while allowing the successful candidate to develop specialist expertise in liquidity risk frameworks, funding risk management and regulatory expectations across a complex global banking environment.
This position offers the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders across the trading and risk functions while delivering high impact audit work in an area of increasing regulatory and strategic importance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of internal audits across liquidity risk and related treasury activities within the EMEA region.
- Assess the design and effectiveness of liquidity risk management frameworks including stress testing, funding risk, liquidity buffers and regulatory reporting.
- Develop risk assessments and audit planning material to ensure key liquidity and funding risks are appropriately tested.
- Oversee audit fieldwork, providing guidance to junior auditors and subject matter input where required.
- Communicate audit findings clearly to senior management, providing constructive challenge and practical recommendations.
- Draft and finalise audit reports highlighting strengths and areas for improvement within the control environment.
- Conduct follow up reviews to ensure remediation actions have been implemented effectively.
- Contribute to broader trading, treasury and risk audits where liquidity risk interacts with wider market risk and balance sheet management activities.
- Maintain awareness of evolving regulatory expectations around liquidity and funding risk.
Candidate Profile
- Experience within Internal Audit in banking with demonstrable exposure to liquidity risk.
- Understanding of liquidity risk management frameworks including LCR, NSFR, liquidity stress testing or treasury funding activities.
- Exposure to trading environments or treasury functions within a bank is highly beneficial.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Ability to manage multiple audits and deliver high quality work in a fast paced environment.
- Understanding of UK and European regulatory expectations relating to liquidity and funding risk.
- Data analytics capability such as SQL, ACL or Tableau would be advantageous but is not essential.
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