Senior Audit Manager; Commercial Banking

Senior Audit Manager (Commercial Banking)

Location: London, Bristol or Edinburgh

Salary: £92,701 - £134,830 (dependent on location)

Hours: Full-time

Working pattern: Hybrid, at least two days per week (40%) in the office.

As a Senior Audit Manager you’ll ensure reliable and high-quality delivery of an assigned area of the audit plan and provide assurance on risk management and internal controls on relevant issues across portfolios. You’ll oversee the end-to-end execution of audits and related action follow‑up through effective planning and collaborator management, manage quality across the portfolio as necessary and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues delivering on your behalf.

You’ll contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI through a strategic and integrated audit focus, collaboration and agile delivery methods.

• Actively oversee and assure delivery of multiple audits within the audit plan, personally leading complex or higher risk audits where required.
• Plan and structure audits across the portfolio, appointing, briefing and supporting Engagement Leads to project manage‑ audits on your behalf.
• Monitor audit progress and quality, applying judgement on the use of automated and data driven testing, and providing clear, timely updates to Audit and Business leadership on status, risks‑ and insights.
• Work closely with the resource scheduler to secure and adjust resourcing required to deliver the portfolio effectively.
• Build and maintain strong collaborator relationships, providing assurance, insight and challenge on risk management and the effectiveness of internal controls.
• Introduce innovative thinking by bringing external perspectives into audit delivery, challenging existing approaches and ways of working.
• Find opportunities to improve audit impact and efficiency, driving new ideas and approaches that make valuable contributions and shape team direction.
• Role model – Group values and behaviours, setting clear expectations through visible leadership and inclusive management.
• Coach and manage colleagues as a career coach, performance manager or pastoral line manager, supporting development, wellbeing and progression where applicable.
• Deliver timely, honest and constructive feedback, supporting continuous development for direct reports and wider team members.

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

• A highly trusted senior assurance leader (typically 8+ years’ experience) who sets the standard for high quality risk and control insight, shaping executive decision making, influencing senior leaders, and strengthening confidence in the control environment through authoritative, clear and impactful communication.
• A digitally fluent audit leader with advanced capability in data analytics, audit technology and emerging AI tools, who champions and embeds their practical application at portfolio level to drive smarter, more efficient and value adding assurance outcomes.
• A strategic, enterprise minded thinker who interprets Group and Business Unit strategy, connecting audit delivery, thematic insights, and continuous business monitoring to enterprise wide risks, opportunities, and long term organisational priorities.
• An influential and credible communicator who applies strong professional judgement to interpret complex information, identify systemic root causes, and deliver clear, outcome focused conclusions that resonate with Executive and ExCo level stakeholders and drive meaningful change.
• A confident portfolio owner and prioritiser who balances multiple high impact audits and competing demands, dynamically planning and reprioritising delivery to ensure assurance activity remains timely, high quality, and focused on where it adds the greatest value to the Group.

• Proven 1st, 2nd or 3rd line Audit experience.
• Experience of leading multiple audit engagements simultaneously.
• Experience in leading, coaching and managing teams.
• Good knowledge of the Commercial banking external environment.
• Excellent collaborator experience with a track record of partnering with senior leadership up to executive level.

• 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

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.