Senior Analyst, Technology Risk; Secondment​/FTC

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12-month Secondment/FTC

Full-time

Flexible Working Options:

• Flexible start and end times of the working day to assist with school run and other appointments.
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns
• Working from abroad policy - short period (subject to approval and policy within the team)

A day in the role:

A typical day would start with updating the daily internal audit report used by senior management to understand the audit action position. The role holder may then be involved with other colleagues to review audit evidence passed from audit action owners for submission to our Internal Audit division. Depending on the day the Risk and Audit team would meet at 10, allowing for school run commitments, for a cascade of information from the manager about projects (new and ongoing), new items of work focus coming, operational and audit concerns of senior Technology Directorate Management.

The team would then discuss key control and risk issues of the different divisions within the directorate and any engagement information. The aim being to ensure the team is as best informed as possible. The team would discuss progress of any audits and subsequent actions to ensure these are delivered on time. You may then be involved in meetings with audit owners and action owners to discuss new audit findings from Internal Audit and / or meet with Internal Audit to discuss new audit findings, challenge meetings from Technology Directorate or planning meetings for new audits.

You may then meet with external auditors to review weekly progress and ensure that Technology Directorate are providing control evidence according to agreed schedules. If you are in the office, you may go to lunch with a colleague using the in-house catering facilities. In the afternoon you may be involved with a one of Technology Directorate's divisions for a regular risk control review with one of their Local Risk Control Officers to assist and advise on the management of their risk controls and remediation of any risk issues.

This followed by continuing constructing / reviewing a report for one of the many regular risk governance meetings or perhaps taking a self-paced education module from our comprehensive training facility. You may then be meeting with one of the technology teams to understand their operations and assist in our programme of presentations on risk and audit education across Technology.

Role Requirements

This role is focused on ensuring that the TRAM team meets its audit and risk objectives. The role holder must have a good technology understanding and IT audit and risk management process (industry best practice) knowledge. A dedicated and conscientious approach is necessary to enable TRAM to meet ever changing demands and deliver its outcomes successfully. Good inter-personal and management skills are essential to interact with audit and risk stakeholders to ensure that commitments are met.

We're looking for someone who has the following key skills and experience:

• Experience of building effective working relationships with others and provide challenge where appropriate.
• Practical experience of technical audits and processes, including requirements, evidence presentation, management responses and agreeing closure.
• Good technical understanding of business drivers, IT architecture, constructs, interactions, processes and dependencies.
• Experience in managing an organisation's technology operational risks in a structured manner.
• Understanding of operational risk principles, controls, processes, terminology.

We are interested in hearing from candidates who…