Internal Audit Senior Associate

Who we are

Our Compliance Operations team delivers testing and monitoring programmes as part of either one off support, or a managed service solution, to a range of high profile and leading clients helping them to assure compliance over both internal and regulatory requirements.

We want to strengthen our Senior Associate team with candidates who have proven technical skills and are now seeking an opportunity to join a fast growing business where they can make a real difference.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for self-motivated individuals who have technical skills and experience in either internal audit, compliance, controls testing and/or external audit who are seeking a new opportunity to use and develop their skills and experience.

Successful candidates will be responsible for owning deliverables and maintaining a high quality of work across the team. They will often be required to review work completed by junior staff, providing coaching and feedback as part of their development. They will be driven, enthusiastic, keen to build on existing experience and can work well individually as well as leading a team.

About the role

Projects tend to be large scale out-sourced or co-sourced Internal Audit programmes, predominantly working with leading banks and financial institutions, located from our Belfast office.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Attending meetings with auditees to develop an understanding of business processes
• Perform compliance and control assessments against a range of policies, guidelines and regulatory expectations
• Contacting and communicating with external sources / clients
• Discussing issues and potential recommendations with clients to make improvements to governance, risk management and / or control
• Performing assessments of the extent to which previous recommendations have been implemented
• Preparing working papers to document the work performed
• Preparing initial draft reports to highlight issues and problems and distributing the reports to the relevant people
• Supporting our clients to strengthen processes and control frameworks, helping them to become more resilient, risk aware and better controlled
• Preparing management information for management and clients
• Support robust Quality Assurance on large scale projects, providing day to day oversight of junior staff
• Building and maintaining relationships with the wider global PwC network
• Understand and proactively keep up to date with the latest regulatory developments and issues which affect our clients
• Managing a variety of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Be responsible and taking leading roles in team activities such a group meetings, recruitment, training and mentoring.

What is in it for you?

We will provide you with:

• An opportunity to work on a range of different programmes giving you variety and depth in your day to day work;
• The opportunity to work with industry leading clients across a range of industry sectors;
• A fast paced, challenging environment with a clear career pathway;
• Dedicated technical and soft skills training to support your induction and ongoing career progression, with full access to PwC Professional frameworks;
• The opportunity to undertake a relevant professional qualification; and
• A People Manager to support your ongoing development and progression.

Our Compliance Operations team is located in PwC's Belfast office. Staff may be required to travel on occasion to various client locations and PwC UK offices for business meetings and training. We will however discuss and agree these requirements with you in advance of starting a project.

Requirements

Applicants should meet the following requirements:

• Previous experience (minimum two years) within an internal audit, compliance, risk or testing function
• An understanding of the banking industry and related regulatory environment (note SME regulatory knowledge is not required)

Desirable Experience / Skills

• Experience in delivering advisory or consultancy services on risk frameworks, governance, controls and related processes is highly preferable; and / or
• Accountancy or other professional qualifications (ACA, CIMA, CISA, IIA or equivalent).
• Preference for graduates, though candidates without degrees will also be considered if they demonstrate relevant experience (minimum of two years relevant experience).

Attributes

• Ability to apply a logical and analytical approach to work
• Ability to manage time, prioritise tasks and work under tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail
• Self-starter and motivated to succeed
• Professionally sceptical mind-set
• Proven ability to be a team player, while retaining ability to work independently with little supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Aptitude for learning new systems and IT applications and trying new experiences
• Effective leadership of teams

Location

Belfast

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.