Head of Audit Chief Finance Office

Job Title:

Head of Audit for Chief Finance Office

Location:

London Division:
Group Audit Corporate

Title:

Managing Director

• Shape senior stakeholder relationships, provide independent challenge and ensure audit insights support meaningful action and sustainable outcomes.
• Lead the global audit strategy, coverage and audit plan for the Chief Finance Office portfolio, aligning activity with the Bank's principal and emerging risks.
• Oversee audit risk through effective identification, assessment, control, monitoring and reporting of material risks.
• Coordinate with business-line, Risk and regional audit teams to deliver integrated, end-to-end assurance across products, processes and legal entities, ensuring Finance audit coverage is joined-up across portfolios and provides a holistic view of risks, controls, themes and key interdependencies across the organisation.
• Provide independent assurance that Chief Finance Office controls are appropriately designed, operate effectively and mitigate material risks.
• Use data, analytics, trend signals and early indicators to anticipate and identify emerging risks, strategic themes and potential cross-portfolio impacts, adapting audit coverage as priorities evolve.
• Identify strategic themes, systemic risks and root causes, connecting findings across portfolios to distinguish broader patterns and underlying drivers, and translating audit insight into sustainable improvements in risk management and control effectiveness.
• Maintain accountability for the end-to-end delivery of the global audit plan, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across teams and regions.
• Define portfolio resources, skills and organisational structure, aligning capability and capacity with risk priorities and future audit requirements.
• Partner with Group Audit Regional Heads to address material risks, strengthen stakeholder engagement and support effective leadership representation.
• Advance audit methodology, governance and reporting while promoting the responsible use of data, analytics, automation and artificial intelligence.
• Contribute as an active member of the Group Audit Leadership Team, collectively shaping Group Audit strategy, priorities and the global audit plan, while helping drive the ongoing transformation of the function.

• Extensive internal audit leadership experience within financial services, including complex multi-jurisdiction audits and horizontal reviews delivered to rigorous methodology, quality and regulatory standards.
• Deep Chief Finance Office expertise across financial reporting, capital and liquidity, treasury, product control, valuations and tax.
• Proven experience managing European Central Bank relationships, regulatory examinations and supervisory engagement.
• Strong understanding of industry trends, market developments and regulatory expectations, with the judgement to translate these insights into audit priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to align First-Line and Second-Line perspectives, clarify ownership and hand-offs and coordinate combined assurance.
• Proven ability to influence senior management, board members, governance bodies and regulators through clear communication and credible independent challenge.
• Extensive experience leading global teams through talent management, succession planning, coaching and capability development.
• Proven ability to direct change initiatives and influence complex transformation programmes across business, risk and control functions.
• Demonstrated ability to use data analytics, automated testing and exception analysis while applying appropriate data quality, explainability and governance standards.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows…