Senior Audit Manager - Markets

End Date Friday 09 January 2026

Salary Range £0 - £0

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Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary Act as a Relationship Manager and/or Specialist and/or Engagement Lead and delivers high quality audits and assurance activity for assigned business / risk area, harnessing a deep understanding of business strategy, controls and risks to provide professional, independent and outcome focused assurance on the effectiveness of the controls.

JOB TITLE: Senior Audit Manager - Markets

SALARY: £90,440 - £131,540 (dependant on location)

LOCATION(S): London, Bristol & Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our hub locations.

As the Relationship Manager you’ll ensure reliable and high-quality delivery of an assigned area of the audit plan and providing 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 stakeholder management, lead quality across the Commercial Banking Markets portfolio as necessary and ensure timely actionable development feedback to all colleagues delivering on your behalf.

You’ll also give to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI colleagues through teamwork, collaboration and effective management of resources into change initiatives. Provide career coaching and mentoring to direct report and colleagues in the pool to develop a positive and high-performing team culture.

• Actively oversee the detailed scope and delivery of a significant number of audits in the Commercial Banking Markets audit plan and where necessary directly lead particularly complex audits within the portfolio.
• Ensure appropriate planning for Audits in your portfolio, including selecting and supporting Engagement Leads who will project manage individual audits on your behalf.
• Oversee progress, and lead the quality of audit delivery, make appropriate judgements as to when automated or data driven testing is most effective, and keep Audit and Business leadership informed regarding status, risks and other relevant insights.
• Collaborate with resource scheduler to ensure necessary resource allocation to deliver on portfolio.
• Manage relationship with, provide assurance and support regarding risk management and effective, efficient internal controls to business stakeholders.
• Proactively suggests and delivers innovating thinking by bringing the outside in.
• Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive different ways to contribute and shape direction for the team.
• Actively role model the Group values and behaviours when managing and leading others.
• Act as a career coach, performance manager, or pastoral (line) manager, if applicable, to a number of colleagues within the pool.
• Provide timely, direct and effective feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of direct reports and other team members.

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• A deep end-to-end understanding of sales and trading businesses (across FX, Rates, and Credit), including key risks and controls across the front office, middle office, back office, risk and product control.
• A solid understanding of the regulatory landscape and key requirements.
• The ability to lead and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development.
• The ability to deliver risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued by stakeholders.
• The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to such strategies at the Macro level
• The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as…