JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Dublin or other Phoenix Office location, with normally 2 days a week working in the office and the rest working at home (with some travel to Phoenix Office locations, as required). We believe that this hybrid working model benefits both you and our business, helping ensure that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work while maximising the value of face-to-face stakeholder engagement.
We have an incredible opportunity at Phoenix Group to join our Group Internal Audit Team as an Internal Audit Manager – Europe.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS

• Resourceful and pragmatic people with the ability and adaptability to take on new responsibilities and challenges.
• Great communication skills, with the ability to build and manage relationships, influence and think in unique and creative ways.
• Confident stakeholder management, communication skills (both written and verbal English), able to build relationships and challenge the status quo at a senior level.
• Proven experience of effectively adapting to complex and changing business environments.
• A strong willingness to learn and contribute to the growth of the team.
• Excellent planning, co-ordination and organisation skills, managing multiple priorities.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Relevant Accounting or Chartered Internal Audit (CIIA) qualification or LCI (or other relevant qualification for this role).
• Previous Internal Audit, External Audit, Risk Assurance experience required, ideally within a Financial Services organisation.
• Strong regulatory awareness, with a deep understanding of the impact of Irish & European regulations on the audit portfolio.
• Good regulatory awareness, understanding the impact of regulations on your portfolio.
  This role has been identified as CF - 2 under the Central Bank of Ireland ’s Fitness & Probity regime. The successful candidate will be required to comply with the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity Standards on an ongoing basis. Further details are available on request from the HR Team or directly from the Central Bank of Ireland

As an Internal Audit Manager , you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to Phoenix by challenging the effectiveness of the risk, governance and control environment. You will help provide influential insight through the work you deliver. You will manage your own portfolio of audits and ad-hoc projects over a variety of areas leveraging technology and data analytics aligned to the group’s strategy and core customer purpose and execute each audit end to end to agreed timelines. You will also manage relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
Working for a large organisation like Phoenix can seem daunting at first – fear not! Whilst this is an autonomous role, you will be a key valued member of our team. We have a lean flat structure, and you will have the guidance and support from the rest of the team, with access to a wide range of skills and experience for support across Group Internal Audit.