Head of Audit – Markets

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Friday 13 September 2024
Salary Range
£149,872 - £176,320
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
JOB TITLE: Head of Audit- Markets
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: At least 4 days a week in the office.
Job Description
About this Opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity to lead the Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets Team (LBCM), part of Group Audit & Conduct Investigations (GA&CI) and our audit approach for the LBCM business. You’ll be working within one of the most dynamic audit functions, with an ambition to be leading across the industry.
If you’re highly skilled, want to join a leading team and help us achieve our ambition this could be the role for you!

What you’ll be doing

• Ownership for developing, planning and implementing the organisation’s Audit strategy
• Ability to successfully influence and work collaboratively with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytics skills and ability to synthesise and present information and recommendations from findings
• Leading a team as a development manager having career focussed conversations and developing the capabilities of those you lead
• Working with the LBCM Chief Internal Auditor (CIA) to produce impactful and insightful Board reporting through business monitoring activities.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Skills: Ability to deliver at pace, an expert in audit delivery, and a deep understanding of risks relevant to business strategy
• Strong Knowledge: of Markets and other Commercial products, risks and regulatory requirements is crucial
• Collaboration and influencing: ability to engage in a constructive manner and influence partners across a broad range of business and functional areas within LBG to deliver the right outcomes for LBCM
• Effective business control: breadth of knowledge across the relevant businesses of LBCM and the wider financial services industry; understanding of economic, political and social trends; ability to identify, articulate and manage risks to strategy and delivering results.
• Compliance with the regulatory system: high standards of conduct and behaviour, especially with regards to the interests of customers; record of delivery on compliance issues; understanding and adherence to colleague fitness and propriety requirements; understanding of the importance of documentary evidence for key decisions.
• Openness and collaboration: strong sense of professional ethics and service to the Group and society; willingness to collaborate openly with all collaborators, including peers, customers and regulators; ability to communicate succinctly and effectively.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Digital Transformation: Experience of digital transformation to support business growth
• Track record of improving audit delivery performance
• Prior experience working in an audit and/or investigations function, and good understanding of the role and purpose of GA&CI

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
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.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference

• Ownership for developing, planning and implementing the organisation’s Audit strategy
• Ability to successfully influence and work collaboratively with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytics skills and ability to synthesise and present information and recommendations from findings
• Leading a team as a development manager having career focussed conversations and developing the capabilities of those you lead
• Working with the LBCM Chief Internal Auditor (CIA) to produce impactful and insightful Board reporting through business monitoring activities